This is the one month retirement notice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase. This notification applies
only to those customers subscribed to minor releases for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 will be retired as of November 30, 2020 and enter Extended
Life Phase which means users will receive the below support.

● Limited technical support for existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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 6 documentation.

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 7 or 8, to receive the latest
features prior to November 30, 2020. If customers need additional migration
time, customers may move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 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, 2024.
● In order to receive the ELS maintenance stream, customers must move their Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10.
● 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/

FAQ: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 reaches End of Maintenance Phase and
transitions to Extended Life Phase
https://access.redhat.com/articles/4665701

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