Synopsis

Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Retirement Notice

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the channel for

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.



Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, support

for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was retired on March 31, 2017, at the end of

Production Phase 3 and active support is no longer provided. As the product will

now be in the Extended Life Phase, customers will continue to have access to all

previously released content, and limited technical support will be available

through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement as described in the

Knowledge Base article available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664

(search for "non-current minor release").



However, we recognize that some customers will wish to remain on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 5 even after the March 31, 2017 retirement date. To meet this

customer requirement, Red Hat will offer customers the option to purchase the

Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On as an annually renewable subscription.

This ELS Add-On provides customers with up to an additional three and a half

(3.5) years of Critical Impact security fixes and selected Urgent Priority bug

fixes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS coverage

will conclude on November 30, 2020.



UPDATE: Note that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is available for the

x86 (32- and 64-bit) and z Systems architectures only. The Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 5 ELS Add-On is not available for the Itanium architecture. In addition,

the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is only available for Server, and does

not apply to layered products or Add-Ons.



To enjoy even more comprehensive product support, we encourage customers to

migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to a more recent version. As a benefit

of the Red Hat subscription, customers may, of course, use their active

subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat

Enterprise Linux release.



Instructions for migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 7 are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223.

Red Hat also has a Pre-upgrade Assistant tool to aid with the migration of Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. For more

information about this tool, please see

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623.



Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here:

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/



Solution

This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of

this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.



Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5 s390x

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References