Red Hat Changes Mind, Postpones Red Hat 7's EOL Until 2028

End-of-life for Red Hat 7 was originally scheduled to happen in one year. But then Thursday Red Hat announced fourmore years of "extended support" for RHEL 7:As we near the end of the standard 10-year life cycle of RHEL 7, some IT organizations are finding that they cannot complete their planned migrations before June 30, 2024. To support IT teams while they catch up on their migration schedules, Red Hat is announcing a one-time, 4 year ELS maintenance period for RHEL 7 ELS. While Red Hat is providing more time, we strongly recommend customers migrate to a newer version of RHEL to take advantage of new features and enhancements... Compared to previous major releases, ELS for RHEL 7 (RHEL 7.9) expands the scope of security fixes by including updates that address Important CVEs. It also includes maintenance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability and Resilient Storage add-ons. And to help you create your long-term IT infrastructure strategy, Red Hat plans to offer ELS for 3 years for both RHEL 8 and 9. When you're ready to upgrade from RHEL 7 - or any other version - Red Hat is here to help. We offer in-place upgrade tools and detailed guidance to streamline upgrades and application migrations. You can also engage Red Hat Consulting to plan and execute your upgrade projects. Red Hat's announcement comes five days after Slashdot's story about the end-of-life for both RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 (and possible migration alternatives). CentOS 7 will apparently still hit its end-of-life in one year on June 30 of 2024.

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