CentOS - Sep 2017 - Apache 2.2 EOL - what is Red Hat's story for RHEL6?

Hi folks,

I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything.
Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year.

Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6?

I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to 6.10 and as part of
that upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 ?

thanks,
-Alan

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On Sep 12, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything.
> Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year.
> 
> Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6?
> 
> I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to 6.10 and as part of
> that upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 ?
I?d assume they?re just going to make their own fixes, since 2.4 is not a
compatible upgrade for many apps, e.g. anything relying on mod_perl.

We ended up needing to do a major rework of our mod_perl based application to
make it run on CentOS 7 as a result.

On 12 September 2017 at 15:29, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything.
> Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year.
>
> Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6?
>
> I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to 6.10 and as part of
> that upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 ?
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
RHEL 6 is in Production Stage 3 where only security fixes will be done
to packages. In the past that has meant that no upgrades etc are done
in the final Prod 3 releases and backports of high level security
fixes are done. So I don't expect any sort of upgrade.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

> Am 12.09.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>:
> 
> I?d assume they?re just going to make their own fixes,

I would be really surprised if they wouldn?t be among the main contributors
already (if not the main contributor) - or at least have staff that are very
familiar with the source.

On 09/12/2017 02:58 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 12 September 2017 at 15:29, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything.
>> Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year.
>>
>> Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6?
>>
>> I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to 6.10 and as part of
>> that upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4 ?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -Alan
>>
> 
> RHEL 6 is in Production Stage 3 where only security fixes will be done
> to packages. In the past that has meant that no upgrades etc are done
> in the final Prod 3 releases and backports of high level security
> fixes are done. So I don't expect any sort of upgrade.
> 
I don't have any official knowledge, but I would suspect that they will
maintain httpd-2.2 throughout the lifetime of RHEL6.  Security issues
would be backported.  (If older versions of RHEL are any indication)

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So looks like the definitive answer is here for those who have access

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2595461

What I don't understand is in the top left it says "solution
unverified" and I"m not sure what that means.

Basic summary is that RH will continue to support apache 2.2 to the
end of life of RHEL6