News

Here is a summary of the main events around and about Lua.
Check also the announcements in the mailing list, the recent changes in the site, and our RSS feeds.

2010

09 Mar 2010

Tutorial on Lua scripting in game production given at GDC 2010.

20 Jan 2010

Lua forums relocated to LuaHUB, courtesy of Stefan Peters and Brett Kapilik.

18 Jan 2010

Programming in Lua is now available as an e-book.

13 Jan 2010

Lua 5.2 (work2) released. Read the announcement.

08 Jan 2010

Lua 5.2 (work1) released. Read the announcement.

2009

17 Dec 2009

A full-day tutorial on Lua scripting in game production will be given at GDC 2010.

28 Oct 2009

Lua store opens at Zazzle. Use Lua, wear Lua!

6–7 Oct 2009

Lua Workshop 2009 held in Rio de Janeiro.

21 Aug 2009

Roberto gives an introductory Lua course at SBLP 2009.

12 Aug 2009

Created Lua BR, a versão brasileira da lista de Lua.
LatinoWare 2009 promotes an Ecological Games Contest in which entries using Lua will get a bonus.

20–21 Jul 2009

Roberto gives an introductory Lua course at JAI 2009.

23 Jun 2009

Ansca announces the Corona SDK for writing native iPhone applications in Lua. Read the announcement.

08 Jun 2009

Google introduces the Android Scripting Environment with support for Lua.

28 May 2009

Lua Workshop 2009 to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

18 May 2009

The book Concepts of Programming Languages includes sections on Lua and a brief interview with Roberto.

15 Apr 2009

Short scheduled maintenance at Lua.org. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.

27 Mar 2009

Interview with the Lua team to appear in the book Masterminds of Programming.

12 Jan 2009

Reference manual now available in Hungarian.

2008

01 Dec 2008

Lua Programming Gems published. Read the announcement.

19 Sep 2008

Roberto talks about Lua at PyConBrasil 2008. See the slides.

11 Sep 2008

Roberto interviewed for Computerworld's The A-Z of Programming Languages.

22 Aug 2008

Lua 5.1.4 released. This is a bug-fix release.

14–15 Jul 2008

Lua Workshop 2008 held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C..

01 Jul 2008

TYPO3 (AOE media) joins our corporate sponsorship program.

06 Jun 2008

Announced corporate sponsorship program: Océ is our first corporate sponsor. Read the announcement.

30 May 2008

Roberto talks about Lua at JAOO 2008, in Brisbane and Sydney.

13 May 2008

Chinese translation of Programming in Lua published.

07 May 2008

Patch for Lua 5.1.3 released. (Superseded by Lua 5.1.4.)

13 Mar 2008

Reference manual now available in Russian.

21 Feb 2008

Live Lua demo now available.

25 Jan 2008

Lua 5.1.3 released. This is a bug-fix release.

24 Jan 2008

"Introductory Lua programming" by Yutaka Ueno published (in Japanese).

2007

20 Dec 2007

Launched campaign to Write "Lua" Right!

18 Dec 2007

Reference manual now available in Spanish.

09 Dec 2007

Lua Workshop 2008 to be held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., courtesy of Matthew Burke. Read the preliminary announcement.

10 Sep 2007

Reference manual now available in Portuguese.

28 Aug 2007

Article on LuaView appears in LabVIEW World (in Italian).

23 Aug 2007

Article "Traveling light, the Lua way" by Ashwin Hirschi appears in IEEE Software. [ pdf · review ]

05 Aug 2007

Lua climbs to position 15 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

17 Jul 2007

Workshop on LuaTeX held at TUG 2007. Watch the videos of the talks.

08 Jul 2007

Lua climbs to position 18 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

25 Jun 2007

Korean translation of Programming in Lua published.

09 Jun 2007

Paper on the evolution of Lua presented at the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL III), a part of FCRC 2007. See the slides and the video.

09 May 2007

Article on Lua to appear in Linux Journal.

28–29 Apr 2007

Scheduled maintenance at Lua.org. Mirror site at Tecgraf activated during downtime.

02 Apr 2007

Lua 5.1.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.

06 Mar 2007

Lua climbs to position 25 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

20 Feb 2007

Mailing list turns 10. Read the announcement.

01 Feb 2007

43 abstracts selected for Lua Programming Gems.

2006

24 Nov 2006

Released call for contributions to Lua Programming Gems.

06 Oct 2006

German translation of Programming in Lua published.

05 Oct 2006

Lua entered the top 50 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

04–05 Sep 2006

Lua Workshop 2006 held at the Océ. See photos and videos.

17 Aug 2006

Reference manual available as a book. Buy a copy and help to support the Lua project.

06 Jul 2006

Created official page for the Lua Workshop 2006. Please register.

30 Jun 2006

A poll at GameDev.net shows Lua as the favorite embeddable scripting language.

26 Jun 2006

Lua 5.0.3 released. This is a bug-fix release.

09 Jun 2006

Lua 5.1.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.

03 Jun 2006

Lua elected for DistroWatch May 2006 donation.

23 Mar 2006

Second edition of Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy published.

21 Feb 2006

Lua 5.1 released. Check out its features.

15 Feb 2006

Lua Workshop 2006 to be held at the Océ R&D site in Venlo (NL), courtesy of Wim Couwenberg. Read the announcement.

23 Jan 2006

Some audio recordings from the Lua Workshop 2005 now available, courtesy of Shannon Bailey. Read the original announcement (but note that the URL has changed).

2005

18 Nov 2005

Lua 5.1 (beta) released.

16 Nov 2005

Started plans for the Lua Workshop 2006. Read the announcement. Please sign up if you're interested.

04 Nov 2005

Lua In Games Roundtable to be held in GDC 2006.

29 Sep 2005

Game Development with Lua published.

09 Sep 2005

Lua 5.1 (alpha) released.

01 Sep 2005

Paper on the evolution of Lua submitted to ACM HOPL III.

11 Aug 2005

Roberto presents a Lua case study at Computação & Mercado 2005.

03 Aug 2005

Mailing list reaches 1000 subscribers, another all-time record.

27–28 Jul 2005

Lua Workshop 2005 held at Adobe. Slides for most of the talks are available. Also some photos.

20 Jun 2005

Roberto talks about Lua at the Politecnico di Milano. The audio is available (also here).

20 Jun 2005

First Lua certification exam announced. (no longer exists)

23 May 2005

Paper on the implementation of Lua 5.0 presented at the IX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.

18 May 2005

Lua 5.1 (work6) released. Read the announcement.

16 Mar 2005

Roberto talks about Lua at the 1^a Semana de Software Livre da PUC-Rio.

04 Mar 2005

Lua 5.1 (work5) released. Read the announcement.

03 Mar 2005

Lua Workshop 2005 to be held at Adobe, courtesy of Mark Hamburg. Read the announcement.

23 Feb 2005

Paper on the implementation of Lua 5.0 submitted to IX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.

22 Jan 2005

New Lua forum in Portuguese. (no longer exists)

11 Jan 2005

Mailing list reaches 800 subscribers, an all-time record.

2004

30 Dec 2004

Lua 5.1 (work4) released. Read the announcement.

06 Dec 2004

Lua 5.1 (work3) released. Read the announcement.

27 Nov 2004

Why Lua is not BASIC by Gavin Wraith appears in Frobnicate 22 (autumn 2004 issue).

21 Oct 2004

Tutorial on Lua given at WJogos 2004. Read the notes and the slides (in Portuguese).

04 Oct 2004

lua.org now hosted by Pepperfish, courtesy of Daniel Silverstone.

20 Sep 2004

Lua 5.1 (work2) released. Read the announcement.

01 Sep 2004

Lua 5.1 (work1) released. Read the announcement.

23 Jul 2004

Article on Lua to appear in Linux Magazine.

05 Jul 2004

The book Programming in Lua is online.
Lua web forums recreated at Icy North Technologies, courtesy of Brett Kapilik. (moved to LuaHUB)

23 Jun 2004

LuaForge opens. Read the announcement.

28 Apr 2004

Added page for receiving donations to help support Lua.

24 Mar 2004

Roundtable about Lua in the gaming industry held at Game Developers Conference 2004. Read the report.

23 Mar 2004

Lua 5.1 (work0) released. Read the announcement.

17 Mar 2004

Lua 5.0.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.

2003

15 Dec 2003

The book Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy is now available.

27 Nov 2003

Added page listing people and institutions that have supported Lua.

25 Nov 2003

Lua 5.0.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.

08 Nov 2003

Roberto gives a talk about the innards of Lua at Lightweight Languages 2003. See the slides.

29 Sep 2003

A poll at GameDev.net shows Lua as the most popular language for game scripting.

16 Jun 2003

Added page listing all known bugs in Lua since Lua 4.0.

07 Jun 2003

Roberto gives an invited talk on Lua at the IV Forum Internacional Software Livre. See the slides.

19 May 2003

Mirror of mailing list at Yahoo! Groups closed down.

14 May 2003

Mailing list has a new home, courtesy of Conectiva and Gustavo Niemeyer. Please subscribe again.

06 May 2003

Added a version history page listing the main features in each version.

11 Apr 2003

Lua 5.0 released. Check out its features.

10 Mar 2003

Yet another web interface for the mailing list archive, courtesy of David Jeske. (no longer active)

11 Feb 2003

Added page listing recent changes in the site and an RSS feed.

05 Feb 2003

Lua web forums created at Icy North Technologies, courtesy of Brett Kapilik.

14 Jan 2003

The Year in Scripting Languages released. It contains a review of what happened to Lua in 2002.

2002

17 Dec 2002

Lua 5.0 (beta) released.

29 Aug 2002

Started page with papers and theses on Lua.

22 Aug 2002

Added pages with web traffic statistics and mailing list traffic statistics.

15 Aug 2002

Lua 5.0 (alpha) released. Check out the commemorative logo.

18 Jul 2002

Source code now available for browsing.

10 Jul 2002

Newsgroup interface to the mailing list now available at Gmane.

04 Jul 2002

Lua 4.0.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.

25 May 2002

New web interface for the mailing list archive, courtesy of John Belmonte.

21 May 2002

Future versions of Lua will be released under the MIT license. See the new license page.

13 Mar 2002

Updated mirrors page: mirrors at Waterloo, Universität Trier, and freesoftware.com no longer exist.

21 Feb 2002

Added search page.

19 Feb 2002

Lua Library Design Workshop held at Harvard University.

30 Jan 2002

New mirror in Denmark, courtesy of SunSITE.dk.

28 Jan 2002

Moved links page to http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaLinks.

14 Jan 2002

Moved tools page to http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons.

07 Jan 2002

Added user survey to help us know our community better. Please take a few minutes to answer it.

2001

03 Dec 2001

Lua IRC channel #lua created at Open Projects Network (now freenode). Read the announcement.

20 Aug 2001

lua-users.org, a meeting place for Lua users, is now online, courtesy of John Belmonte.

25 Jul 2001

Lua 4.1 (alpha) released. (Removed. The next version will be 5.0.)

29 May 2001

Lua store opens. Use Lua, wear Lua!

24 May 2001

Roberto gives an invited talk on the history of Lua at the V Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.

08 May 2001

New mirror in Russia, courtesy of the Chernogolovka Science Center.

19 Mar 2001

lua.org now online, courtesy of Jim Mathies and Soho One.

2000

06 Nov 2000

Lua 4.0 released. Check out its features.

23 Oct 2000

Added press releases in English and Portuguese.

03 Oct 2000

Added page with press clippings.

21 Sep 2000

Lua 4.0 (beta) released.

23 Aug 2000

Mailing list is back.

20 Aug 2000

Article on Lua appeared in the Adventurer Paradise (in Portuguese).

24 Apr 2000

Lua 4.0 (alpha) released.

19 Apr 2000

New mirror in Denmark, courtesy of uCore Technology.

29 Mar 2000

New mirror in Japan, courtesy of the University of Aizu.
Added page listing all mirror sites.

15 Mar 2000

Mirror in the US moved to ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/languages/lua/. (no longer exists)

22 Feb 2000

Lua 3.2.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.

16 Feb 2000

Launched Lua Technical Notes.

01 Feb 2000

Lua 3.2 included in Dr. Dobb's Alternative Programming Languages Realease 3 CD-ROM.

1999

20 Dec 1999

Added page with user quotes.

25 Nov 1999

Lua 3.2.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.

09 Nov 1999

Added summary page in Portuguese.

08 Jul 1999

Lua 3.2 released. Check out its features.

26 Apr 1999

Lua 3.2 (beta) released.

18 Mar 1999

Mailing list archive available at eGroups.com.

18 Feb 1999

New mirror in Germany, courtesy of GWDG.

18 Feb 1999

New mirror in the US, courtesy of cdrom.com. (This mirror has been moved to freesoftware.com.)

1998

15 Sep 1998

Mailing list archive available at ftp sites.

11 Jul 1998

Lua 3.1 released. Check out its features.

1997

05 Nov 1997

Journal paper on Lua awarded the first prize (technological category) in the II Compaq Award for Research and Development in Computer Science. This award is a joint venture of Compaq Computer in Brazil, the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

01 Jul 1997

Lua 3.0 released. Check out its features.

20 Feb 1997

Created mailing list.

1996

01 Dec 1996

Article on Lua published in Dr. Dobb's Journal.

19 Nov 1996

Lua 2.5 released. Check out its features.

01 Jun 1996

Paper on Lua published in Software: Practice & Experience.

14 May 1996

Lua 2.4 released. Check out its features.

1995

28 Nov 1995

Lua 2.2 released. Check out its features.

07 Feb 1995

Lua 2.1 released. Check out its features.

1994

01 Aug 1994

First paper describing Lua presented at the XXI Brazilian Seminar on Software and Hardware.

08 Jul 1994

Lua 1.1 released. This is the first public release of Lua. Check out its features.

1993

29 Oct 1993

First public talk about Lua given at the VII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering.

28 Jul 1993

Lua 1.0 was up and running. This is the earliest implementation of Lua that we have found to date.