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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ELS Retirement: RHSA-2017:0863-01 Low Severity

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (ELS). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Final Notice Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0863-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0863 Issue date: 2017-04-03 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (ELS). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 2. 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 3. Description: In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Life Cycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 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 4 ELS 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 4 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customerscan 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/ 4. Solution: This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory. 5. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 ELS): Source: redhat-release-4AS-10.16.src.rpm i386: redhat-release-4AS-10.16.i386.rpm ia64: redhat-release-4AS-10.16.ia64.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4AS-10.16.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4 ELS): Source: redhat-release-4ES-10.16.src.rpm i386: redhat-release-4ES-10.16.i386.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4ES-10.16.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/ 6. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ 7. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFY4meJXlSAg2UNWIIRApiMAJ92HVIOwKrj+h9FyAwc7tVFuNpQVwCgr15m nKLd6MbU1J6Px//FMZXZteg=XCzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Last reminder regarding the end of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, prompting users to transition to more current versions.. Product Retirement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Support Lifecycle. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 03, 2017 •Low Red Hat