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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC) Retirement Notice
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2017:0861-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0861
Issue date:        2017-04-03
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1. Summary:

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies only
to those customers subscribed to the Advanced Mission Critical (AMC)
channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy,
Advanced Mission Critical for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 was retired on
March 31, 2017, and active 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
5.6 AMC after March 31, 2017. In addition, on-going technical support
through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement will be limited as
described under "non-current minor releases" in the Knowledge Base article
located here https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.

We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 to a
more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a benefit of the Red
Hat subscription model, customers can use their active subscriptions to
entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux
release.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

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 Long Life (v. 5.6 server):

Source:
redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.src.rpm

i386:
redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.i386.rpm

ia64:
redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.ia64.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.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/

6. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

7. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
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