End of life / Red Hat Enterprise Linux / 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 end of life
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 reached end of life on 31 March 2017, 3,446 days ago.
The detail
- Released
- 15 March 2007
- End of life
- 31 March 2017
- Countdown
- 3,446 days ago
- Status
- End of life
- Extended support ends
- 30 November 2020
- Newest build on this release
- 5.11
- Newest release overall
- 10.2
CVEs that reach 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships security fixes for supported releases through its own package archive. Those CVEs are fixed by updating packages rather than by moving off this release, so they are not listed here.
Where to move next
The newest tracked release is 10.2.
Other Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases
Vendor sources last checked 6 September 2026, and checked daily. This data last changed on 6 September 2026.
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