[RHSA-2013:0570-01] Low: Oracle Java SE 6 - notification of end of public updates

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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 at redhat.com>.  More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
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