Dear opensuse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE Linux Enterprise customers, SUSE Security announces that the regular maintenance, security and L3 support for the SUSE LINUX Enterprise 8 line of products will end after November 2007. The SUSE LINUX Enterprise 8 line consists of the following products: - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 - SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server 4.0 - SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server 4.1 - SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8 - SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 - SUSE LINUX Desktop 1.0 - UnitedLinux 1.0 All updates published will continue to be available for self-service download until November 2012. We will however be offering Extended Support for 2 years for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 product only. The extended support has following limits: - The offer is limited to the processor platforms Intel 32bit (i386) and IBM S/390 31bit (s390). - Only critical security problems will be fixed, others depending evaluation. - A certain sub-set of packages is no longer fixed. This list includes binary only software like Acrobat Reader, Java, and also some opensource software (Mozilla, PHP4, ucdsnmpd, snort, SpamAssassin, PostgreSQL). - Additional update rights need to be purchased for the extension to be activated. Please contact a Novell sales representative for more information if you are interested. Following SUSE Linux Enterprise product lines will continue to be available with following end dates: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 - General Support until July 2009 (and Novell Linux Desktop 9) Extended Support until July 2011 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 - General Support until July 2011 Extended Support until July 2013 To learn more about SUSE Linux business products, please visit http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ For a detailed list of the life cycles of our Enterprise Products please visit http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ and http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/lcSearchResults.jsp?sl=suse If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate your sales or support representative or to contact SUSE Security at <security@suse.de>.