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Red Hat: RHSA-2014:0014-01 Low: RHEL 6.2 EUS Support Retirement

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2014
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Final announcement regarding the conclusion of assistance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update (EUS).
This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS)

Solution

This advisory contains an updated redhat-release-server 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 Update Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is retired as of January 7, 2014, and support is no longer 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 6.2 EUS after that date. In addition, technical support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will no longer be provided after January 7, 2014.
Note: This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Update Support (EUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2.
We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 6 release (6.3, 6.4, or 6.5 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/

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.2):
Source: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.6.el6_2.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.6.el6_2.i686.rpm
ppc64: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.6.el6_2.ppc64.rpm
s390x: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.6.el6_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.6.el6_2.x86_64.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-2014:0014-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2014-01-08

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS).

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.2) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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