Security Advisory 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     775de5d0ff5c28d88c673276c7856165
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.src.rpm     48fce6a23eb6cf8712ab5522d1d2c94c
 
IA-32:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.i386.rpm     996d380c17ce4d7ddd1daf730ff7f2e9
 
IA-64:
redhat-release-as-2.1AS-123.ia64.rpm     17c38a4db791df8ddb6ef6d070d0f3b9
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.src.rpm     81b737767283fc11159bf8bf941076de
 
IA-32:
redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.i386.rpm     872e761a774c85f865119c685d04fa76
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.src.rpm     77f889c5faa5ee19bf2f5d84b3561e70
 
IA-32:
redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.i386.rpm     65c1af246e6adc6f852649e9954f92fb
 
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor

SRPMS:
redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.src.rpm     30e4bda43a2845a11dbbd88515d52913
 
IA-64:
redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.ia64.rpm     8ae04e89a98ba2103f6b8371dddc6a1f
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

References



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/