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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ELS Retirement Notification: RHSA-2013:1865-01

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2013
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This is the 1-month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS)

Solution

This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package, that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

Summary

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will be retired as of January 30, 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 3 ELS after that date. In addition, technical support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will no longer be provided after January 30, 2014.
Note: This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 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 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 release.
Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 ELS):
Source: redhat-release-3AS-13.9.17.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-3AS-13.9.17.i386.rpm redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.17.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 ELS):
Source: redhat-release-3ES-13.9.17.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-3ES-13.9.17.i386.rpm redhat-release-debuginfo-3ES-13.9.17.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1865-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2013-12-19

Topic

This is the 1-month notification for the retirement of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS).

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 ELS) - i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 ELS) - i386

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