sudo 1.7.4 with the -s flag breaks my shell!

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No it doesn’t. It just doesn’t preserve your $HOME variable, as explained in the UPGRADE file. To fix it, just follow the instructions in there and add:

Defaults env_keep += HOME

to your sudoers file. Voila!

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