The AIX nofiles hard limit fix and bug #867 will make 1.8.27.

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@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.27
    file would not be updated when a command was run in a pseudo-tty.
    Bug #865.
 
+ * Sudo now sets the silent flag when opening the PAM session except
+   when running a shell via "sudo -s" or "sudo -i".  This prevents
+   the pam_lastlog module from printing the last login information
+   for each sudo command.  Bug #867.
+
+ * Fixed the default AIX hard resource limit for the maximum number
+   of files a user may have open.  If no hard limit for "nofiles"
+   is explicitly set in /etc/security/limits, the default should
+   be "unlimited".  Previously, the default hard limit was 8196.
+
 What's new in Sudo 1.8.26
 
  * Fixed a bug in cvtsudoers when converting to JSON format when