Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a ...

Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the ...

Starting with its 25.10 release, Ubuntu is switching the default sudo tool to a new version called sudo-rs, written in Rust.

It aims to be a drop-in replacement for OpenBSD's doas, which itself aims to be an alternative to sudo that has significantly fewer features and is thus easier to make correct. Since you are here, ...