Red Hat Enterprise MRG Life Cycle

Overview

Red Hat has established fixed life cycles for Red Hat Enterprise MRG, which allows customers and partners to plan their resources, certifications, and implementations.

To enable customer maintenance cycles, each Red Hat Enterprise MRG is supported via errata service packs. These service packs contain security, bug fixes, and enhancement errata that have been qualified on the appropriate Red Hat Enterprise MRG release. Security errata will be the only errata released independently of service packs. To minimize the impact of security errata, Red Hat has a policy of backporting security fixes whenever possible.

For life cycle information relating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time please visit this page.

Details

For a period of up to seven years from initial release (general availability), Red Hat will provide errata maintenance for Red Hat Enterprise MRG. To promote and retain the high standard of stability inherent in the Red Hat enterprise products, the maintenance period is divided into two phases. The first phase lasts two years. The second phase lasts from the start of year three to either the end of year seven or the end-of-life date of the parent Red Hat Enterprise Linux, whichever occurs first.

Timeline

This table summarizes the two support phases after general availability (GA) of a major release.

Support phase Years after GA Support provided
Phase 1 Years 0–2 Full support: see Scope of Coverage
Phase 2 Years 2-7 or the retirement date of the parent Red Hat Enterprise Linux, whichever occurs first Maintenance only: at a minimum, qualified security errata of Critical impact will be released.

Phase 1: Full support

Start date: general availability

End date: two years from general availability date

Description: during the full support phase, support will be provided for both production and development use according to the Scope of Coverage for Red Hat Enterprise MRG. During the full support phase, all available and qualified errata will be applied via service packs (or as required in the case of security-level errata). Updated ISO images will only be provided during the full support phase.

Phase 2: Maintenance

Start date: two years from general availability (end of full support)

End date: five years from end of full support (seven years from general availability), or the end-of-life date of the parent Red Hat Enterprise Linux, whichever occurs first.

Description: during the maintenance phase, Red Hat will provide support for production use only, according to the published Scope of Coverage. During this phase, at a minimum, qualified security errata of Critical impact (definition at access.redhat.com/site/security/updates/classification/) will be released.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG-Messaging 3.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

General availability: September 24, 2014

Full support: September 25, 2014– July 24, 2015

Maintenance: July 25, 2015 – June 30, 2018

Note: MRG-Messaging 3.0 is a messaging only release, there is no v3 for MRG-Realtime or MRG-Grid

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Version 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

General availability: June 23, 2011

Full support: June 23, 2011 – June 22, 2013

Maintenance: June 23, 2013 – June 30, 2018 (MRG-Messaging and MRG-Grid)

Maintenance: June 23, 2013 – November 30, 2020 (MRG-Realtime)

Notes:

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Version 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

General availability: June 23, 2011

Full support: June 23, 2011 – June 22, 2013

Maintenance: June 23, 2013 – March 31, 2017 (coincident with end of maintenance support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5)

Note: MRG-Realtime 2.0 is only supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Version 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

General availability: June 19, 2008

Full support: June 19, 2008 – June 18, 2011 (extended to three years)

Maintenance: June 19, 2011 – March 31, 2014

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Version 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

General Availability: June 19, 2008

Full Support: June 19, 2008 - June 18, 2011 (extended to three years)

Maintenance: June 19, 2011 - February 29, 2012 (coincident with end of maintenance support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4)