End Of Life For CentOS 4
Thursday, January 12th, 2012 4:35PM UTC
CentOS support for version 4.9 of the operating system ends February 29th, 2012. This means any updates to the various system software, including kernel, will end after this date. Ideally this means you should be contacting us to upgrade your instance to a newer version of CentOS. We officially support CentOS 6, and will be sending out a formal notice soon. We also offer CentOS 5, if any customers wishes to use that platform instead.
We will best support CentOS 4.9 for the next 3 months past this EOL date. We will continue to update the software we maintain in-house. Though any security issues, normally released by the vendor, is not our responsibility. Three months after this date we ourselves will not be performing any updates to the CentOS 4 distribution. We suggest updating as soon as possible, and work with us on a smooth and scheduled update process.
To check what CentOS version you are running you can do so by running on a ssh command line:
cat /etc/redhat-release
If unsure what version of CentOS you are running on your instance, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
