RHEL 5.3: RHSA-2013:0688-01 Low: AMC Support Retirement Notice

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Advanced Mission Critical for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 will be retired on March 31, 2014, and support will no longer be provided. Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages, including critical impact security patches or urgent priority bug fixes, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 AMC after that date. In addition, after March 31, 2014, technical support through Red Hat’s Global Support Services will no longer be provided.
Note: This notification applies only to those customers with subscriptions for Advanced Mission Critical Support (AMC) channels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.
We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 to a more recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on a currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release (AMC is available on 5.9) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 release (AMC is available on 6.2 and 6.4, and planned for 6.6).
Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata