This is the 3-month notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice Advisory ID: RHSA-2011:1506-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1506.html Issue date: 2011-12-01 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: This is the 3-month notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64 3. Description: In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the regular 7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will end on February 29, 2012. After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the regular subscription services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Therefore, new bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates, as well as technical support services will no longer be available for the following products: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 4 * Red Hat Desktop 4 * Red Hat Global File System 4 * Red Hat Cluster Suite 4 Customers still running production workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6. Active subscribers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux already have access to all currently maintained versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as partof their subscription without additional fees. For customers who are unable to migrate off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 before its end-of-life date, Red Hat intends to offer a limited, optional extension program. For more information, contact your Red Hat sales representative or channel partner. Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the Red Hat website: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ 4. 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. 5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 754175 - Send Out RHEL 4 3-Month EOL Notice 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4: Source: i386: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.i386.rpm ia64: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.ia64.rpm ppc: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.ppc.rpm s390: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.s390.rpm s390x: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.s390x.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4AS-10.3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4: Source: i386: redhat-release-4Desktop-10.3.i386.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4Desktop-10.3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4: Source: i386: redhat-release-4ES-10.3.i386.rpm ia64: redhat-release-4ES-10.3.ia64.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4ES-10.3.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4: Source: i386: redhat-release-4WS-10.3.i386.rpm ia64: redhat-release-4WS-10.3.ia64.rpm x86_64: redhat-release-4WS-10.3.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 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2011 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4(GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFO17D1XlSAg2UNWIIRAggrAJ9zKSm+6FTQXAUcPDo2/jUbXqKhBQCfd80y BxXvMFXxQXynic6gFcrTkSY=RkTI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list
Effective Monday, December 10th 2001, after a lifespan of two years, SuSEwill discontinue support for the successful SuSE Linux distributionSuSE Linux 6.3.. Effective Monday, December 10th 2001, after a lifespan of two years, SuSE will discontinue support for the successful SuSE Linux distribution SuSE Linux 6.3. SuSE puts much effort into adding security improvements (patches) to the software instead of publishing a new version; the same program with a fix for a specific problem promises to work just as reliable as the original version from the distribution, whereas new versions introduce new functionality which changes the behaviour. In some cases however, especially if the security leak is based on problematic design decisions or when the fix(es) are fairly large, the only reasonable fix for a security problem is to update to a newer version of the software. These newer versions tend to become incompatible with our older distribution releases because of missing features in the operating system environment. This forces us to focus on the distributions of a newer release date. The remaining distributions SuSE Linux 6.4 SuSE Linux 7.0 SuSE Linux 7.1 SuSE Linux 7.2 SuSE Linux 7.3 for the IA-32, IA-64, AXP Alpha, SPARC, S/390 as well as the PowerPC platforms will continue to be supported for a two-year period after the release of the respective product. Due to different maintenance terms, the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and other products based on the Enterprise Server Edition are not affected by this notice. The freshly released SuSE Linux 7.3 distribution is a stable, robust and secure product that sets new standards in the Free and Open Source Software world. We encourage our usership to make the transition to a newer version of the SuSE Linux distribution. Regards, Roman Drahtmüller, SuSE Security. . SuSE Linux 6.3 support ends December 10, 2001. Users urged to transition to newer versions for security.. SuSE Linux, End-of-Life Support, Software Security Patches. . Severity: Important.LinuxSecurity.com Team
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