End of life / Red Hat Enterprise Linux / 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 end of life
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 reached end of life on 30 November 2020, 2,152 days ago.
The detail
- Released
- 10 November 2010
- End of life
- 30 November 2020
- Countdown
- 2,152 days ago
- Status
- End of life
- Extended support ends
- 30 June 2024
- Newest build on this release
- 6.10
- Newest release overall
- 10.2
CVEs that reach 6
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 22 October 2026, and checked daily. This data last changed on 22 October 2026.
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