Passwordless sudo now disabled by default

2026-04-13:

• Passwordless sudo now disabled by default
• Switch to enable passwordless sudo added to Control Centre System tab and to raspi-config
• New Main Menu tab added to Control Centre to allow editing of main menu; alacarte menu editor removed
• Main menu now launches applications using standard gtk-launch code
• Run and Shutdown options in main menu now packaged applications instead of hard-coded into menu
• New launcher and task list plugins for taskbar; launcher now supports drag and drop to reorganise icons
• uBlock Origin Lite and h264ify plugins installed in Chromium by default
• cups-browsed printer discovery service now starts and stops with Control Centre rather than running continuously
• libpam-gnome-keyring installed to integrate Chromium password management with system password
• Desktop tab in Control Centre now allows home folder to be displayed on desktop instead of documents folder
• Pulseaudio no longer installed by default; raspi-config option to use it also removed
• Direct control of pipewire audio integrated with first-boot wizard
• Improved mechanism to detect clicking away from panel popup windows, compatible with Connect
• More efficient method for detecting desktop being closed to re-enable power button
• Bug fix - keystrokes sometimes being missed when opening search box in main menu
• Bug fix - touchscreens not correctly configured by Control Centre under X
• Bug fix - opening Control Centre when an SD card was mounted caused the window to be too big
• Bug fix - some mouse cursors displaying incorrectly when screen scaling in use
• Bug fix - file manager crash when switching TTYs
• Bug fix - greeter crash when switching TTYs
• Raspberry Pi firmware dce3a7f35498e1a6340748f599e7d74d9001c1fe
• Linux kernel 6.12.75 - 89050b1059997d38d55462b323b099a6436dc10d