The current stable release of the sudo 1.9 branch is version 1.9.16p2. For the sudo 1.8 branch, see legacy releases. For full details see the ChangeLog file or view the commit history via git or GitHub. Sudo 1.9.16p2 Sudo now passes the terminal device number to the policy plugin even if it cannot resolve it to a path name. This allows sudo to run without warnings in a chroot jail when the terminal device files are not present. GitHub issue #421.| Sudo
Version 1.9 of sudo introduced a new API to access audit information. This is not a user-visible feature. In other words, you cannot use it directly from the sudoers file. It is an API, meaning that you can access audit information from plugins, including ones written in Python. You can use it in many different ways, like sending events from sudo directly to Elasticsearch or LaaS when something interesting happens. You can also use it for debugging and print otherwise difficult to access info...| Sudo
Version 1.9 of sudo is now feature complete: all major features are implemented. On the other hand, sudo 1.9 needs testing and a bit of polishing before it can be made generally available. This is where you can help. Testing is easy, as for most platforms the project provides ready-to-install packages. In this blog I will show you how to test the recording service. For an overview of 1.9 features see What is coming up in sudo 1.9? To get started with Python support in sudo, including compile ...| Sudo