Red Hat introduced a new extended paid support program “Extended Life Cycle, Premium“, which will provide a 14-year maintenance cycle branches of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9/10 distribution: 5 years full development of public updates + 5 years of public updates with the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities (without adding innovations and expanding hardware support) + 4 years of development of updates with the elimination of critical problems for paid subscribers.
Previously, 4 years of additional paid support were provided for the release of RHEL 7, now this practice is announced for the releases of RHEL 8/9/10. A feature of the “Extended Life Cycle, Premium” program is the increase in the time for additional publication of updates for intermediate branches (subreleases of RHEL 10.2, 10.2, etc.). Fixes for vulnerabilities with severity level CVSS 7 and higher, as well as serious errors for intermediate branches, will now be generated separately for 6 years (was 2 years Extended Update plus 2 more year under a separate Extended Extended Update subscription), which will reduce the transition to new intermediate releases in systems serving continuously running critical services.
For example, extended updates for the May release of RHEL 10.2 will be generated until May 2032, and for the November RHEL 10.3 – until November 2032. The RHEL 10 branch as a whole will be supported until 2039, the RHEL 8 branch until 2033, and the RHEL 9 branch until 2036.
