Hello,
I'm am sending this email to hopefully answer several questions that 
always come up when RedHat releases a new release.  For those longtime 
SL users, this should sound familiar.

Q: When will SL 6.1 be released?
A1: When it is ready.
A2: For minor releases, we have consistently been able to release in two 
months.  If nothing major goes wrong, expect SL 6.1 at the end of July 
or early August.

Q: When will normal SL 6 security errata be released?
A1: When they are ready.
A2: Really, when they are ready.  We are currently downloading and 
building the packages right now.  But these new security errata need to 
go through much more testing than the previous errata, so they will not 
be released in our normal 24 hour schedule.  But, we will not hold them 
until SL 6.1 is released either.
I would expect for SL 6 security errata to start being released at the 
end of next week.  It will not be all at once.  It will be as packages 
pass the various tests.

Q: When will the kernel that was released with RHEL 6.1 be released as a 
security errata kernel?
A: It's possible that we won't release kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6, at 
least not for general security errata.
The reason is because the first kernel that comes out with a Minor 
release usually causes more problems for older releases than it fixes.
If there is a major security issue and/or nobody finds any update 
problems, it's possible that we will release the kernel for general 
security errata.  But the odds are that RedHat will release a new kernel 
before that happens.

Thanks
Troy Dawson
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