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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6: RHSA-2017-0861-01 Low: Support Retirement

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Explore the cessation of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical and what it means for its users.
This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC)

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, Advanced Mission Critical for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 was retired on March 31, 2017, and active 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 5.6 AMC after March 31, 2017. In addition, on-going technical support through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases" in the Knowledge Base article located here https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.
We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 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/support/policy/updates/errata/

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity notification support policy retirement notice advanced mission critical

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server):
Source: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.src.rpm
i386: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.i386.rpm
ia64: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.ia64.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.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-2017:0861-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0861
Issue date: 2017-04-03

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies onlyto those customers subscribed to the Advanced Mission Critical (AMC)channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity notification support policy retirement notice advanced mission critical

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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