The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.

4.4 Open Source Software Libraries

Most popular open source and GNU software is either already available on Oracle Linux as RPM packages that you can install by using yum. Ported binaries as well as source code are also available from open-source repositories.