Is version X of Red Hat Enterprise Linux FIPS 140-2 certified/validated/compliant?

Issue

• When Red Hat gets particular packages to pass FIPS validation with NIST, are the package versions after that also considered FIPS-validated or FIPS-certified?

• There's a Red Hat knowledge article that details how to configure a RHEL5 system to be FIPS 140-2 compliant; however, it recommends using very old versions of packages. Does this mean one must use those old packages from 2010 in order to run a RHEL5 box in FIPS mode?