Lua Work area

This is the repository of work versions, release candidates, and other pre-releases of Lua.

We are getting ready to release Lua 5.4.7, a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4.
Try the latest release candidate below. All feedback is welcome.

If you have arrived here by accident, start here.

If you are looking for released versions, check out the download area.

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Lua 5.4.7

filename date size checksum (sha256)
lua-5.4.7-rc1.tar.gz 2024-05-09 373951 9f51aeeaba66df34df7b63dfb8f94cb33000aad4d8788f66ac913a9efb5a64f7
lua-5.4.7-rc2.tar.gz 2024-05-17 374052 047417676188278ee86a15c2136f400f9f2a0c21ff2b0d30ab8e2c9e217853ac
lua-5.4.7-tests.tar.gz 2024-05-17 136474 0913ddc7c5fb47d1ba3e8c1c6dac85a3cf1961c9bd70cda13df9a860f81a81b4
diffs-lua-5.4.6-lua-5.4.7.html 2024-05-17 57704 f9033ed0577fc0cd9cbe1fe587d6f8fc1b51de99ef12d8ce19aa34caf36cc1e1
diffu-lua-5.4.6-lua-5.4.7.html 2024-05-17 84781 78ccb4caa9158c90cbd59d2880928c3365c600a6109142021d91949415c402e0

Latest releases

Lua 5.4.6 was released on 14 May 2023. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.5 was released on 29 Apr 2023. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.4 was released on 26 Jan 2022. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.3 was released on 29 Mar 2021. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.2 was released on 3 Dec 2020. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.1 was released on 9 Oct 2020. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

Lua 5.4.0 was released on 29 Jun 2020. It is the first release of Lua 5.4.

Get a copy of these releases here.