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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 TUS: RHSA-2018:3806-01 Low Retirement Notice

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2018
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We announce the immediate retirement of the Telco Update Service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 and recommend migrating to RHEL 7 or later for enhanced support.
This is the one-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Update Service (TUS)

Solution

This erratum 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, Telco Update Service (TUS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 will be retired as of December 31, 2018, 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 6.6 TUS after December 31, 2018. 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 6.6 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 Telco Update Service life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2823771

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.6.0.5.el6_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.6.0.5.el6_6.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6):
Source: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.6.0.5.el6_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: redhat-release-server-6Server-6.6.0.5.el6_6.2.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3806-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2018-12-10

Topic

This is the one-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 6.6 Telco Update Service (TUS). This notification applies only tothose customers subscribed to the Telco Update Service (TUS) channel forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1647208 - Send out RHEL 6.6 Telco Update Support 1 Month Notice

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