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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: Oracle Java SE 6 - notification of end of public updates
Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0570-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0570.html
Issue date: 2013-02-26
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1. Summary:
Oracle Java SE 6 will no longer receive updates after February 28, 2013.
The java-1.6.0-sun packages on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Supplementary media and Supplementary Red Hat Network (RHN) channels are
affected.
2. Description:
Oracle Java SE 6 will no longer receive updates after February 28, 2013.
The Oracle Java SE 6 packages on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Supplementary media and Red Hat Network (RHN) channels will continue to be
available after February 28, 2013.
Red Hat will continue to provide these packages only as a courtesy to
customers. Red Hat will not provide updates to these packages after this
date.
3. Solution:
Red Hat recommends that customers using Oracle Java SE 6 choose one of the
following alternative Java implementations:
* OpenJDK 6, which is available and supported in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6.
* IBM's Java SE 6, which is available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
and 6 Supplementary media and Supplementary RHN channels through
September 2017.
* OpenJDK 7, which is available and supported in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6.
* IBM's Java SE 7, which is available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
and 6 Supplementary media and Supplementary RHN channels.
* Oracle Java SE 7, which is available today on the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary media and Supplementary RHN channels.
In the near future, Red Hat will provide updated packages for these
alternative Java implementations and detailed instructions describing how
to configure a new default Java runtime environment.
4. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/lifecycle/index.html
5. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
