Extended Update Support (EUS) is an optional offering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers. With EUS, Red Hat provides backports of Critical and Important impact1 security updates and urgent-priority bug fixes for a predefined set of minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. EUS enables customers to remain with the same minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 24 months, allowing for stable production environments for mission-critical applications.

EUS is provided with x86-64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Premium subscriptions and is available as an Add-on to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server standard subscriptions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power LE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems subscriptions. It is not available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation. Please contact your Red Hat Sales Representative if you are unsure if you have access to EUS and to help decide if it is appropriate for your environment.