Ksplice

Oracle Buys Ksplice

On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced that it has acquired Ksplice. The addition of Ksplice’s technology will increase the security, reliability and availability of Oracle Linux by enabling customers to apply security updates, diagnostics patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting. Read more.

Oracle Linux customers

Ksplice Uptrack is freely available for Oracle Linux customers that subscribe to Premier support. Ksplice Uptrack can bring the following kernels up to date with the latest important security and bug fix patches:

  • All Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel versions for OEL 5 and 6 starting with 2.6.32-100.28.9 (released March 16, 2011).

You can confirm whether a particular kernel is supported by installing the Uptrack client on a system running that kernel.

If you have questions about our supported kernels, please contact us at ksplice-support_ww@oracle.com.


Information for free version kernels

Information for legacy Ksplice customers