Oracle Linux Extended Support for Oracle Linux 6 ended on December 31, 2024. Oracle Linux 6 has moved to Sustaining Support. For more information, see Lifetime Support Policy.
This release includes the following changes:
Security configuration updated to remove access policies added to image released on December 18, 2017.
Includes dependencies for cloud-utils-growpart to enable partition extension. A reboot is required to enable.
Includes init script enabling yum mirror mappings to local regions to work across snapshots from different regions.
Includes fixes to improve iSCSI attachment stability.
Includes kernel update with retpoline mitigation for issue described in CVE-2017-5715.