[sudo-workers] sudo 1.8.2rc4 available
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Wed Jun 22 14:46:27 EDT 2011
A new release candidate for sudo version 1.8.2 is now available.
Sudo 1.8.2 features NLS support. Currently, sudo has been translated
into Basque, Chinese (simplidied), Danish, Finish, and Ukranian.
For more information, see http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/nls.html
If you would like to contribute a translation for sudo, please join
a translation team at the Translation Project instead of contributing
a po file directly. This will avoid duplicated work if there is
already a translation in progress. For details, see
http://translationproject.org/html/translators.html
Source:
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.8.2rc4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.8.2rc4.tar.gz
Binary packages:
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/packages/index.html
Major changes between sudo 1.8.2rc3 and 1.8.2rc4:
* The "use_pty" sudoers option is now correctly passed back to the
sudo front end. This was missing in previous versions of sudo
1.8 which prevented "use_pty" from being honored.
* New Danish translation and updated Chinese (simplified)
translation from translationproject.org.
Major changes between sudo 1.8.2rc2 and 1.8.2rc3:
* The SHELL environment variable is now preserved by default
when "sudo -s" is run.
* When installing /etc/sudoers via binary package on non-RPM and
non-Debian systems, the owner and mode are now set explicitly
in the postinstall script instead of relying on "cp -p".
On AIX 6.1 at least, the postinstall script runs before
permissions are set on files in the root part of the package.
* Locale files are now removed by "make uninstall".
* Added Basque translation from translation.org and updated
Finish and Ukranian translations.
* Plugins are now loaded with RTLD_GLOBAL instead of RTLD_LOCAL.
This fixes problems with, e.g., PAM modules not having
access to symbols provided by libpam on some platforms.
Affects FreeBSD and SLES at least.
Major changes between sudo 1.8.2rc1 and 1.8.2rc2:
* Sudo now includes NLS translations for Finish, Ukrainian and
simplified Chinese.
* I/O logging is now supported for commands run in background mode
(using sudo's -b flag).
* Visudo now checks the contents of an alias and warns about cycles
when the alias is expanded.
* If the user specifes a group via sudo's -g option that matches
the target user's group in the password database, it is now
allowed even if no groups are present in the Runas_Spec.
Major changes between sudo 1.8.1p2 and 1.8.2rc1:
* Added a workaround for a FreeBSD bug with dlopen() and non-standard
PAM modules.
* Sudo, visudo, sudoreplay and the sudoers plug-in now have natural
language support (NLS). Sudo will use gettext(), if available,
to display translated messages. This can be disabled by passing
configure the --disable-nls option.
* Group ownership of the sudoers file is only enforced when the file
mode on sudoers allows group readability or writability.
* The sudo Makefiles now have more complete dependencies which are
automatically generated instead of being maintained manually.
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