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• Sudo version 1.6.8p8 was released on March 31, 2005.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p7 was released on February 5, 2005.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p6 was released on January 1, 2005.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p5 was released on November 28, 2004.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p4 was released on November 17, 2004.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p3 was released on November 16, 2004.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p2 was released on November 11, 2004. This fixes a security flaw with respect to running Bash scripts via Sudo.

• Sudo version 1.6.8p1 was released on September 15, 2004. This fixes a security flaw in sudoedit that can expose the contents of normally unreadable files.

• Sudo version 1.6.8 was released on August 17, 2004.

• MicroSoft was granted a patent that could be interpreted to cover Sudo on August 10, 2004.

• Sudo version 1.6.7p5 was released on May 8, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.7p4 was released on April 16, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.7p3 was released on April 6, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.7p2 was released on April 3, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.7p1 was released on April 1, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.7 was released on March 31, 2003.

• Sudo version 1.6.6 was released on April 25, 2002. This fixes a potential security hole (buffer overflow) present in sudo versions 1.5.7 - 1.6.5p2.

• Sudo version 1.6.5p2 was released on January 23, 2002.

• Sudo version 1.6.5p1 was released on January 18, 2002.

• Sudo version 1.6.5 was released on January 17, 2002.

• Sudo version 1.6.4p2 was released on January 16, 2002.

• Sudo version 1.6.4p1 was released on January 15, 2002.

• Sudo version 1.6.4 was released on January 14, 2002.

• The Sudo mailing list archives are now searchable.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p7 was released on Mar 2, 2001. This fixes the negating of path-type Defaults entries in a boolean context.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p6 was released on Feb 19, 2001. This fixes a security problem (heap corruption). The bugs has been successfully exploited on Linux but requires intimate knowledge of how the system malloc() works. There is a paper on this.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p5 was released on Aug 13, 2000. This fixes the listpw and verifypw sudoers options.

• The sudo mailing lists now use the MailMan mailing list manager.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p4 was released on Jun 4, 2000. This fixes a bug in visudo.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p3 was released on May 14, 2000. This adds a patch missing in version 1.6.3p2.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p2 was released on May 10, 2000. This fixes three bugs present in version 1.6.3.

• Sudo version 1.6.3p1 was released on May 9, 2000.

• Sudo version 1.6.3 was released on March 26, 2000.

• Sudo version 1.6.2p3 was released on March 9, 2000.

• Sudo version 1.6.2p2 was released on February 26, 2000.

• Sudo version 1.6.2p1 was released on January 27, 2000.

• Sudo version 1.6.2 was released on January 24, 2000. Version 1.6.2 is primarily a bugfix release.

• Sudo version 1.6.1 was released on December 10, 1999. Version 1.6.1 is a bugfix release only and does not include any new features.

• The sudo web site has a new layout (as you've no doubt noticed). Hopefully it is easier to navigate in this incarnation.

• Sudo version 1.6 was released on November 17, 1999. Version 1.6 features a more regular grammar and most features are now configurable at runtime.