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Red Hat: RHSA-2017:0339-01 Low: ELS Support Retirement Notification

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This is the One-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (ELS)

Solution

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

Summary

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Life Cycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be retired as of March 31, 2017, and active 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 4 ELS after March 31, 2017. In addition, on-going technical support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases" in the Knowledge Base article located at https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.
We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.
Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/ https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 ELS):
Source: redhat-release-4AS-10.15.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-4AS-10.15.i386.rpm
ia64: redhat-release-4AS-10.15.ia64.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-4AS-10.15.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 ELS):
Source: redhat-release-4ES-10.15.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-4ES-10.15.i386.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-4ES-10.15.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0339-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0339.html
Issue date: 2017-02-28

Topic

This is the One-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (ELS). This notification appliesonly to those customers subscribed to the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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Topics Covered

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Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 ELS) - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 ELS) - i386, x86_64

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