IBM BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) will be making updates to stay aligned with the upcoming changes from Red Hat:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) end of life (EOL) is on March 31, 2017. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
- Red Hat is shifting from the Red Hat Network (RHN) hosted interface to the RHSM interface in July 2017. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-subscription-management
BigFix Patch for RHEL is implementing the following updates:
End of support for RHEL 5
BigFix Patch for RHEL will no longer provide RHEL 5 Fixlet content and will end it’s RHEL 5 support in July 2017. We suggest updating to later versions of Red Hat.
End of support for non-RHSM versions of the download cacher and download plug-on
The earlier, non-RHSM versions of the download cacher and download plug-in are supported only until RHEL 5. The RHSM enhancements that BigFix Patches for RHEL released in December 2016 supports RHEL 6 and RHEL 7.
Deprecation of the Patches for RHEL 5 - Native tools site
The Patches for RHEL 5 - Native tools site will be deprecated in July 2017. The site will have ‘Deprecated’ appended to the site name in the License Overview dashboard.
Additional References:
- For information about the RHEL 5 EOL, see the following Red Hat references:
– Archived Red Hat notice: https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2012-February/msg00000.html
– Under the Life-cycle Dates section: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
– https://linuxlifecycle.com/
- For information about the RHN Classic sunset and migration to RHSM, see https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-subscription-management.
Application Engineering team
IBM BigFix Patch