Created attachment 1980163 [details] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase Notice - 6/30/2023 Synopsis: Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase Notice Summary: This is the one year retirement notice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to minor releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Details In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will be retired as of June 30, 2024 and enter Extended Life Phase which means users will receive the below support. ● Limited technical support for existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 deployments. ● Previously released bug fixes (RHBAs), security errata (RHSAs), and product enhancements (RHEAs). ● Red Hat Knowledgebase and other content (white papers, reference architectures, etc.) found in the Red Hat Customer Portal. ● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 documentation. Resolution and Recommendations Red Hat recommends that customers run software that is actively maintained in order to get the most benefit of bug fixes and security enhancements released. Customers have the below options to maintain their Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. Red Hat strongly suggests that customers migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 8 or 9, to receive the latest features prior to November 30, 2020. If customers need additional migration time, customers may move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) which delivers certain critical-impact security fixes and selected (at Red Hat discretion) urgent priority bug fixes the below support until June 30, 2028. ● In order to receive the ELS maintenance stream, customers must move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9. ● Customers should also budget for the cost of ELS as this offering is an Add-on and not part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription ● The ELS Add-on is only available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Standard and Premium Server Subscriptions ● The ELS Add-On covers the IBM z Systems and the x86 architecture Please see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle page for additional details on ELS and active Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle dates. Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription also entitles you to advice for updating to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version that is in maintenance. For complex or mission-critical updates you may consider Red Hat Consulting. If interested, take the first step by completing this form. Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ Solution This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.
Builds created: redhat-release-client - https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=54224655 redhat-release-server - https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=54225780 redhat-release-computenode - https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=54226306 redhat-release-workstation - https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=54226425
./check_retirement_notice.py RHBA-2023:117918 cat *RETIREMENT-NOTICE.txt -- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 -- This is the one year retirement notice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to minor releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will be retired as of June 30, 2024 and enter Extended Life Phase which means users will receive the below support. ● Limited technical support for existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 deployments. ● Previously released bug fixes (RHBAs), security errata (RHSAs), and product enhancements (RHEAs). ● Red Hat Knowledgebase and other content (white papers, reference architectures, etc.) found in the Red Hat Customer Portal. ● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 documentation. Resolution and Recommendations Red Hat recommends that customers run software that is actively maintained in order to get the most benefit of bug fixes and security enhancements released. Customers have the below options to maintain their Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. Red Hat strongly suggests that customers migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 8 or 9, to receive the latest features prior to November 30, 2020. If customers need additional migration time, customers may move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) which delivers certain critical-impact security fixes and selected (at Red Hat discretion) urgent priority bug fixes the below support until June 30, 2028. ● In order to receive the ELS maintenance stream, customers must move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9. ● Customers should also budget for the cost of ELS as this offering is an Add-on and not part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription ● The ELS Add-on is only available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Standard and Premium Server Subscriptions ● The ELS Add-On covers the IBM z Systems and the x86 architecture Please see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle page for additional details on ELS and active Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle dates. Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription also entitles you to advice for updating to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version that is in maintenance. For complex or mission-critical updates you may consider Red Hat Consulting. If interested, take the first step by completing this form. Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory. -- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 -- Summary: Build(s) tested: redhat-release-client-7.9-6.el7 redhat-release-server-7.9-8.el7_9 redhat-release-workstation-7.9-6.el7 redhat-release-computenode-7.9-5.el7 PASS: All rpms from RHBA-2023:117918 contain *RETIREMENT-NOTICE.txt file. PASS: Extracted *RETIREMENT-NOTICE.txt text seem to match to the advisory documentation. --> VERIFIED
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (RHEL 7 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase Notice), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:4632