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Added

• Support for -A / --askpass to enable using an external askpass program under control of the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable.
• Functional support for localisation. This can be enabled by building sudo-rs with the gettext feature and installing a sudo-rs.mo in the correct LC_MESSAGES folder. Since we have no translations yet this is off by default.

Changed

• sudo is always built with sudoedit functionality
• sudo no longer sets the archaic MAIL environment variable
• timestamps format has been changed to always check for session pid (#1132). As a consequence, timestamps created by earlier versions of sudo-rs are invalidated after upgrading to this version.
• The folder containing zoneinfo is detected at runtime; build.rs was removed
• The default value of Defaults editor has been changed on Linux to remove the dependence on Debian-specific /usr/bin/editor.

Fixed

• sudo -i made root as owner of the pty instead of the login user (#1333)
• visudo usability improvements (#1388, #1394)
• Mistakes in the man pages (#1338, #1362, #1387)
• Better error message when /etc/sudoers contains regular expressions (#1352)
• Better error message when /etc/sudoers is missing (#1368)
• Redirecting input/output to another TTY was not recognised as redirection; this fix originated from Todd Miller's sudo (#1380)

Contributors for this release

Merged pull requests: @bjorn3, @squell, @pvdrz, new contributors: @adombeck, @re-taro, @cnaples, @joriskleiber, @meeque, @braird, @konstruktoid, Closed issues opened by: @GrosQuildu, @allisonkarlitskaya, @mgedmin, @reneleonhardt, @BAMF0, @StackOverflowExcept1on, @bystones, @meeque, @rhelder