[RHSA-2014:0131-01] Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extended Life Cycle Support Retirement Notice

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extended Life Cycle Support Retirement Notice

Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0131-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0131.html

Issue date: 2014-02-04

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1. Summary:

 

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 3 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS). This notice applies only to

those customers subscribed in the Customer Portal to the Extended Life

Cycle Support (ELS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 ELS) - i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 ELS) - i386

 

3. Description:

 

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

Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 was

retired on January 30, 2014, and 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 3 ELS after January 30, 2014. In addition, technical

support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will no longer be

provided after this date.

 

In order to provide customers with a final opportunity to migrate their

systems to a supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the retirement

process for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ELS will complete on March 31, 2014.

On that date, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ELS channels will be moved to

the "Retired" channels area (under the "Retired" tab) on the Customer

Portal, and customers will be unsubscribed from the Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 3 Extended Life Cycle Support channels.

 

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 only, customers may continue to run Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 3 ELS on their systems without consuming a subscription.

However, customers wishing to access Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ELS

content (now under the "Retired" tab) on the Customer Portal will need an

active RHEL Server subscription. Also, customers who choose to resubscribe

a system to the retired Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ELS channels will

consume a RHEL Server subscription. Note again that the contents of

Retired channels are frozen, and no further security patches or bug fixes

are provided.

 

We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 3 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a benefit

of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use active subscriptions

to entitle any system on a currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux

release.

 

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

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

 

Additional information can also be found at:

https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/690063

 

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. 3 ELS):

 

Source:

redhat-release-3AS-13.9.20.src.rpm

 

i386:

redhat-release-3AS-13.9.20.i386.rpm

redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.20.i386.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 ELS):

 

Source:

redhat-release-3ES-13.9.20.src.rpm

 

i386:

redhat-release-3ES-13.9.20.i386.rpm

redhat-release-debuginfo-3ES-13.9.20.i386.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

 

6. References:

 

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/690063

 

7. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.

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