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+What's new in Sudo 1.8.12
+
+ * The default password prompt now includes a trailing space after
+   "Password:" for consistency with su(1) on most systems.
+   Bug #663
+
+ * The user can no longer interrupt the sleep after an incorrect
+   password on PAM systems using pam_unix.
+   Bug #666
+
+ * Fixed a compilation problem on Linux systems that do not use PAM.
+   Bug #667
+
 What's new in Sudo 1.8.11
 
  * The sudoers plugin no longer uses setjmp/longjmp to recover