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What is Sudo?

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments. For more information, see the introduction to Sudo. Sudo is free software, distributed under an ISC-style license.

Releases

The current stable release is sudo 1.8.5p2, released on May 29, 2012.
The current maintenance release is sudo 1.7.9p1, released on May 17, 2012.
See the download page for a list of binary packages.

The current development release is sudo 1.7.10b1, released on May 24, 2012.

News

[2012-05-29] Sudo version 1.8.5p2 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.5p2.

[2012-05-24] Sudo version 1.7.10b1 released. Major changes in sudo 1.7.10b1.

[2012-05-17] Sudo version 1.8.5p1 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.5p1.

[2012-05-16] Sudo version 1.8.5 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.5.

[2012-05-16] Sudo version 1.8.4p5 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4p5.
Sudo version 1.7.9p1 released. Major changes in sudo 1.7.9p1.
These releases fix a potential security issue that may allow a user who is authorized to run commands on hosts belonging to one IPv4 network to run commands on a different host.

[2012-03-12] Sudo version 1.8.4p4 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4p4.

[2012-05-16] Sudo version 1.8.4p3 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4p3.

[2012-02-27] Sudo version 1.8.4p2 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4p2.

[2012-02-21] Sudo version 1.8.4p1 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4p1.

[2012-02-17] Sudo version 1.8.4 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.4.
Sudo version 1.7.9 released. Major changes in sudo 1.7.9.

[2012-01-30] Sudo version 1.8.3p2 released. Major changes in sudo 1.8.3p2. This release fixes a potential format string vulnerability when the -D (debugging) flag is used.

[2012-01-27] Sudo version 1.7.8p2 released. Major changes in sudo 1.7.8p2. Sudo 1.7.8p2 is a bug fix release.