Red Hat Linux 5.6 EUS Retirement: Comprehensive Advisory

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Update Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 is retired as of August 7, 2013, and support is no longer provided. Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages after the final errata release, including critical impact security patches or urgent priority bug fixes, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 EUS after this date. In addition, technical support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will no longer be provided after August 7, 2013.
Note: This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Update Support (EUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.
We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 to a more recent version 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 (5.9, for which EUS is available) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 release (6.2, 6.3, or 6.4, for which EUS is available).
Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata