Recent Progress on Tau Lepton Physics

Some important aspects of hadronic τ decays are reviewed: the determination of αs from the inclusive τ hadronic width, the measurement of |Vus| through the Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the τ, and the theoretical description of the τ→ντKπ spectrum. The present status of other relevant electroweak topics, such as charged-current universality tests or bounds on lepton-flavour violation, has been already summarized in ref. [A. Pich, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 181-182 (2008) 300; 169 (2007) 393].