Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo PasswordsFor more than four decades, typing a password after a sudo prompt in a Linux terminal produced nothing visible on screen — no asterisks, no dots, no moving cursor. The blank void was intentional: a guard against “shoulder surfing,” the practice of counting keystrokes to guess a password’s length. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed Resolute Raccoon and due on April 23, 2026, changes that. “Security is the
