Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 1-Year End Of Life Notice

Advisory:	RHSA-2008:0521-3
Type:	Security Advisory
Severity:	Low
Issued on:	2008-06-03
Last updated on:	2008-06-03
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor
OVAL:	N/A

Details

This is the 1-year notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 2.1.

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the
7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 will end on May 31, 2009.

After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the technical support services,
bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates for the following
products:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
* Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
* Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1

Customers still running production workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2.1 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5. Active subscribers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux already have access to
all currently maintained versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of
their subscription.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the
Red Hat website: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

Solution

This errata contains an updated redhat-release package, that adds a new
file to "/usr/share/doc/", which contains this end of life notice.

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-123.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`775de5d0ff5c28d88c673276c7856165`
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`48fce6a23eb6cf8712ab5522d1d2c94c`

IA-32:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`996d380c17ce4d7ddd1daf730ff7f2e9`

IA-64:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-123.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`17c38a4db791df8ddb6ef6d070d0f3b9`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`81b737767283fc11159bf8bf941076de`

IA-32:
redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`872e761a774c85f865119c685d04fa76`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`77f889c5faa5ee19bf2f5d84b3561e70`

IA-32:
redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`65c1af246e6adc6f852649e9954f92fb`

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor

SRPMS:
redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`30e4bda43a2845a11dbbd88515d52913`

IA-64:
redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2009:1076	`8ae04e89a98ba2103f6b8371dddc6a1f`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

References

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from:
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at http://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/