Red Hat Enterprise includes version 0.33.7.1 of GNU aspell, which is almost five years old, but the most current version of GNU aspell was released in October of 2005 - only six months ago. One example of the impact of this problem is that the very popular FCKeditor allows spell checking through "Speller Pages," but will not work with the older versions of aspell. Thus, any websites that are hosted by providers who use Red Hat Enterprise (and who will only apply updates they receive from Red Hat) are not able to implement the spell-check feature of the FCKeditor. Please bring aspell up to date so that things such as the FCKeditor's spell check will be able to work for users of Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks!
This problem is resolved in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.