Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition

6 hours ago (omgubuntu.co.uk)

I wish sudo-rs and all projects being used in production would suck it up and release a major version v1. Seeing v0.xxx on a program used by Ubuntu as a base system utility is ridiculous. You don't have to try and contort the version numbers of a user-facing utility to fit into the semver API spec, but at least bump to v1.0.0 and continue from there!

Oh good! I thought they'd gotten rid of the sudo Lecture that comes up when you first use it. With great power... And so forth.

  • Well, I will admit that I find the first part jarring: "we trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator." I'm like: I'm running this on OpenWRT, so should I go to a local university to talk to a actual *nix sysadmin?

Decades of real world use and hardening are more valuable than anything a rewrite can promise or provide. But the not-invented-recently culture comes for everything.