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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice

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To:  rhsa-announce-AT-redhat.com, enterprise-watch-list-AT-redhat.com
Subject:  [RHSA-2010:0576-01] Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice
Date:  Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:27:23 -0400
Message-ID:  <201007301027.o6UARNhv010775@int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2010:0576-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0576.html
Issue date:        2010-07-30
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1. Summary:

This is the 3-month notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the
regular 7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will end on October
31, 2010.

After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the regular subscription services
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Therefore, new bug fix, enhancement, and
security errata updates, as well as technical support services will no
longer be available for the following products:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 3
* Red Hat Desktop 3
* Red Hat Global File System 3
* Red Hat Cluster Suite 3

Customers still running production workloads on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 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 without additional fees.

For customers who are unable to migrate off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
before its end-of-life date, Red Hat may offer a limited, optional
extension program. For more information, contact your Red Hat sales
representative or channel partner.

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

4. Solution:

This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package, that provides a
copy of this end of life notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

616794 - Send Out RHEL 3 3-Month EOL Notice

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3AS/en/os/SRPMS/redha...

i386:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.i386.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.i386.rpm

ia64:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.ia64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.ia64.rpm

ppc:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.ppc.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.ppc.rpm

s390:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.s390.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.s390.rpm

s390x:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.s390x.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-3AS-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3AS-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Desktop version 3:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3desktop/en/os/SRPMS/...

i386:
redhat-release-3Desktop-13.9.9.i386.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3Desktop-13.9.9.i386.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-3Desktop-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3Desktop-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3ES/en/os/SRPMS/redha...

i386:
redhat-release-3ES-13.9.9.i386.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3ES-13.9.9.i386.rpm

ia64:
redhat-release-3ES-13.9.9.ia64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3ES-13.9.9.ia64.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-3ES-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3ES-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3:

Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3WS/en/os/SRPMS/redha...

i386:
redhat-release-3WS-13.9.9.i386.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3WS-13.9.9.i386.rpm

ia64:
redhat-release-3WS-13.9.9.ia64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3WS-13.9.9.ia64.rpm

x86_64:
redhat-release-3WS-13.9.9.x86_64.rpm
redhat-release-debuginfo-3WS-13.9.9.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://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

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

8. Contact:

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

Copyright 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice

Posted Aug 8, 2010 16:40 UTC (Sun) by dougsk (guest, #25954) [Link]

I wonder how many PBXs are still running this code? I'd take a gander, but I'd be afraid of finding out.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice

Posted Aug 11, 2010 22:23 UTC (Wed) by SkyGuy (subscriber, #60773) [Link]

The university usenet server I ran until a month ago was running RHEL 3. I would have upgraded to a newer RHEL, but the migration process proved that innd is specially designed to segfault rather than output any useful error message in case of misconfiguration. So, our university goes without a usenet server.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 3-Month End Of Life Notice

Posted Sep 1, 2010 7:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's not hard to build innd with debugging (or install the debugging symbols) and report a bug, you know. This *is* open source.

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