[CentOS] Apache 2.2 EOL - what is Red Hat's story for RHEL6?

Wed Sep 13 12:28:25 UTC 2017
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 13.09.2017 um 01:04 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> 
> On 09/12/2017 02:58 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On 12 September 2017 at 15:29, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything.
>>> Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year.
>>> 
>>> Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6?
>>> 
>>> I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to 6.10 and as part of
>>> that upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 ?
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> -Alan
>>> 
>> 
>> RHEL 6 is in Production Stage 3 where only security fixes will be done
>> to packages. In the past that has meant that no upgrades etc are done
>> in the final Prod 3 releases and backports of high level security
>> fixes are done. So I don't expect any sort of upgrade.
>> 
> 
> I don't have any official knowledge, but I would suspect that they will
> maintain httpd-2.2 throughout the lifetime of RHEL6.  Security issues
> would be backported.  (If older versions of RHEL are any indication)
> 


BTW - SCLo SIG provides additionally httpd24, at least until May 2019 ...

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