[Ksplice][RHEL 5 Updates] End-of-life for OL 5, RHEL 5, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5, and CentOSPlus 5

[Jamie Iles]

LEGACY KSPLICE CUSTOMERS

On 31st March 2017, vendor support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5,
CentOSPlus 5 and Scientific Linux 5 has ended and no further errata will be
released.  After today, legacy Ksplice customers will receive no further
Ksplice updates for their kernels.


ORACLE LINUX PREMIER SUPPORT CUSTOMERS

Under the lifetime support policy for Oracle Linux, Premier Support for 
Oracle Linux 5 ends in June 2017 and no further errata will be released.  
Customers wishing to remain on Oracle Linux 5 for an extended period may 
purchase Oracle Linux Extended Support which will provide critical 
security fixes until June 2020. 

At the end of Premier Support for Oracle Linux 5, Ksplice updates will 
no longer be released and customers without an Extended Support add-on 
are advised to upgrade to Oracle Linux 6 or Oracle Linux 7.  For 
customers with an Extended Support subscription, Ksplice updates will 
continue for all Oracle Linux 5.11 kernels (2.6.18-398.el5 and later) 
during the Extended Support period.

Beginning In June 2017, the following kernel products will no longer 
receive zero-downtime updates via Ksplice: 

    * All Oracle Linux 5.10 and earlier Red Hat Compatible kernels 
    (2.6.18-371.12.1.el5 and earlier).
    * All Oracle Linux 5.10 and earlier Red Hat Compatible kernels with 
    Oracle enhancements (2.6.18-371.12.1.0.1.el5 and earlier).


SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.