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.
- 17 Oct 2023
-
Lua Workshop 2023
held in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate 30 years of Lua.
- 18 Aug 2023
-
Building a Programming Language course with Roberto.
Read the
announcement.
- 14 May 2023
-
Lua 5.4.6
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 29 Apr 2023
-
Lua 5.4.5
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 17 Mar 2023
-
Building a Programming Language course with Roberto.
Read the
announcement.
- 01 Jan 2023
- Happy New Year!
We commemorate
30 years of Lua
in 2023.
- 19 Oct 2022
-
Lua Programming Gems is now freely available.
- 10 Oct 2022
-
Lua Workshop 2022
held at Freiburg.
- 13 Sep 2022
-
Lua receives the
Pedro Ernesto Medal, the highest decoration given by the city of Rio de Janeiro.
- 02 Jul 2022
-
Building a Programming Language course with Roberto.
Read the
announcement.
- 26 Jan 2022
-
Lua 5.4.4
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 09 Aug 2021
-
Roberto
talks about Lua at the
SIGGRAPH 2021 Retrospective.
- 16 Jul 2021
-
Video about
Lua and Roblox
published by
TV PUC-Rio.
- 29 Mar 2021
-
Lua 5.4.3
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 15 Jan 2021
-
"Lua, a misunderstood language",
a blog post by Andre Alves Garzia.
- 03 Dec 2020
-
Lua 5.4.2
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 29 Oct 2020
-
Roberto
talks
live about Lua.
See the announcement.
(in Portuguese)
- 09 Oct 2020
-
Lua 5.4.1
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 25 Sep 2020
-
Lua 5.3.6
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 29 Jun 2020
-
Lua 5.4.0
released.
Check out its
features.
- 10 Jun 2020
-
Lua Workshop 2021
to be held in Freiburg, Germany.
(postponed to 2022)
- 06 Feb 2020
-
Lua Workshop 2020
to be held in Freiburg, Germany.
Read the
announcement.
(postponed to 2021)
- 16 Oct 2019
-
Lua 5.4.0 (beta)
released.
- 13 Jun 2019
-
Lua 5.4.0 (alpha)
released.
- 03 Mar 2019
-
Lua in Moscow Conference 2019
held in Moscow.
- 26 Oct 2018
-
"A look at the design of Lua"
published in Communications of the ACM.
Watch the
video.
- 06–07 Sep 2018
-
Lua Workshop 2018
held in Kaunas, Lithuania.
- 20–22 Jul 2018
-
TUG 2018
held in Rio de Janeiro.
The Lua team are special guests.
- 10 Jul 2018
-
Lua 5.3.5
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 07 Jul 2018
-
Lua Workshop 2018
to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania,
cortesy of CUJO.
- 18 Jun 2018
-
Lua 5.4.0 (work2)
released.
- 13 Mar 2018
-
Lua 5.4.0 (work1)
released.
- 01 Jan 2018
- Happy New Year!
We commemorate
25 years of Lua
in 2018.
- 16–17 Oct 2017
-
Lua Workshop 2017
held in San Francisco.
- 16 Aug 2017
-
Roberto
participates in
Seminário Inovanças
at the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio.
- 24 Jul 2017
-
Lua Workshop 2017
to be held in San Francisco, CA,
courtesy of Kong.
- 05 Jul 2017
-
Added
showcase page.
- 20 Jun 2017
-
Roberto
gives a keynote at
Curry On 2017.
Watch the
video.
- 03 Jun 2017
-
LuaConf 2017
held in Rio de Janeiro.
- 25 Apr 2017
-
Fourth edition of
Programming in Lua
available as
e-book.
- 25 Apr 2017
-
Lua features in the
"Inovanças – Creations Brazilian style"
exhibition at
the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio.
Watch the
welcome video
and read the
catalog.
Watch the
video about Lua.
- 23 Mar 2017
-
Roberto
will give a keynote at
Curry On 2017
in June.
- 05 Mar 2017
-
Lua in Moscow Conference 2017
held in Moscow.
- 20 Feb 2017
-
Mailing list
turns 20.
Read the
announcement.
- 30 Jan 2017
-
Lua 5.3.4
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 08 Jan 2017
-
LuaConf 2017
to be held in June.
Read the
announcement.
- 13–14 Oct 2016
-
Lua Workshop 2016
held in San Francisco.
- 01 Aug 2016
-
Fourth edition
of
Programming in Lua
published.
- 09 Jul 2016
-
LuaConf 2016
held in Rio de Janeiro.
See some
photos.
- 06 Jun 2016
-
Lua 5.3.3
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 06 May 2016
-
Get 20% off when you buy
Programando em Lua
through lua.org
- 15 Mar 2016
-
lua.org now accepts
https
connections,
courtesy of Pepperfish.
- 09 Mar 2016
-
LuaConf 2016
to be held in Rio de Janeiro,
courtesy of Etiene Dalcol and Evandro Gonçalves.
- 04 Feb 2016
-
Lua Workshop 2016
to be held in San Francisco, CA,
courtesy of Mashape.
- 30 Nov 2015
-
Lua 5.3.2
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 15–16 Oct 2015
-
Lua Workshop 2015
held in Stockholm.
- 26 Jun 2015
-
Programando em Lua
published.
It's a Portuguese translation of the third edition of
Programming in Lua.
- 17 Jun 2015
-
Lua 5.3.1
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 09 Apr 2015
-
Lua Workshop 2015
to be held in Stockholm, Sweden,
courtesy of King.
- 07 Mar 2015
-
Lua 5.2.4
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
See the diffs.
- 12 Jan 2015
-
Lua 5.3.0
released.
Check out its
features.
- 11 Dec 2014
-
Lua 5.3.0
entered final release-candidate cycle.
- 23 Oct 2014
-
Lua 5.3.0 (beta)
released.
- 13–14 Sep 2014
-
Lua Workshop 2014
held in Moscow.
- 31 Jul 2014
-
Lua 5.3.0 (alpha)
released.
- 19 Jun 2014
-
Lua 5.3.0 (work3)
released.
- 15 Apr 2014
-
Lua Workshop 2014
to be held in Moscow, Russia,
courtesy of Alexander Gladysh.
- 21 Mar 2014
-
Lua 5.3.0 (work2)
released.
- 28 Jan 2014
-
Reference manual available in
Portuguese.
- 07 Dec 2013
-
Lua 5.2.3
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
- 23–24 Nov 2013
-
Lua Workshop 2013
held in Toulouse.
- 02 Oct 2013
-
CBSoft 2013 celebrates 20 years of Lua.
See the
slides.
- 28 Jul 2013
-
We commemorate 20 years of the first version of Lua today.
Read the
announcement.
- 23 Jul 2013
-
Roberto
receives the
Scientific Merit Award
of the Brazilian Computer Society for his work on Lua.
- 22 Jul 2003
-
Added page on
getting started with Lua.
- 12 Jul 2013
-
Lua Workshop 2013
to be held in Toulouse, France,
courtesy of Benjamin Cabé and Kévin Kin-foo.
- 06 Jul 2013
-
Lua 5.3.0 (work1)
released.
- 15 May 2013
-
Roberto
gives an
invited talk
at
WWW 2013.
See the
slides.
- 14 May 2013
-
Third edition of
Programming in Lua
available as
e-book.
- 27 Mar 2013
-
Lua 5.2.2
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
- 03 Jan 2013
-
Third edition
of
Programming in Lua
published.
- 10 Dec 2012
-
Donations
to the Lua project via PayPal are again available.
- 29–30 Nov 2012
-
Lua Workshop 2012
held at Verisign.
- 02–08 Sep 2012
-
Roberto
gives a course on Real Scripting with Lua at the
LASER Summer School on Innovative Languages for Software Engineering.
- 14 Jun 2012
-
Lua 5.2.1
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
- 21 May 2012
-
Lua Workshop 2012
to be held at Verisign,
courtesy of John Rodriguez.
- 04 May 2012
-
LuaJIT
gets a dedicated
mailing list.
Read the
announcement.
- 17 Apr 2012
-
Lua store opens at Fibers.
Use Lua, wear Lua!
(no longer active)
- 02 Apr 2012
-
Started plans for the
Lua Workshop 2012.
- 20 Feb 2012
-
Mailing list
turns 15.
Read the
announcement.
- 17 Feb 2012
-
Lua 5.1.5
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
- 30 Jan 2012
-
Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template language.
Read the
announcement.
- 13 Jan 2012
-
Lua wins the
Front Line Award 2011
from
Game Developers Magazine
in the category Programming Tools.
- 09 Jan 2012
-
Roberto
visits Stanford University for three months on a
Tinker Professorship.
- 16 Dec 2011
-
Lua 5.2.0
released.
Check out its
features.
- 23 Oct 2011
-
Codea launched,
an app to create games and simulations using Lua on the iPad.
(formerly known as
Codify)
- 08–09 Sep 2011
-
Lua Workshop 2011
held in Switzerland.
- 13 Jul 2011
-
Lua 5.2 (beta)
released.
- 06 Jun 2011
-
Lua enters the top 10 languages of the
TIOBE Programming Community Index.
- 12 May 2011
-
"Passing a language through the eye of a needle"
published in ACM Queue.
Later also published in Communications of the ACM.
- 26 Apr 2011
-
Lua Workshop 2011
to be held in Switzerland,
courtesy of Marc Balmer.
- 03 Apr 2011
-
Lua approaches the top 10 languages of the
TIOBE Programming Community Index.
- 15 Mar 2011
-
Reference manual available in
German.
- 12 Feb 2011
-
Started plans for the
Lua Workshop 2011.
- 23 Nov 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (alpha)
released.
- 30 Oct 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (work5)
released.
- 01 Oct 2010
-
SocialMediaPress
joins our
corporate sponsorship program.
(no longer active)
- 28 Aug 2010
-
Mailing list
has a
new home at
Pepperfish.
- 19 Aug 2010
-
Short scheduled maintenance at lua.org.
Mirror site at PUC-Rio
activated during downtime.
- 31 Jul 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (work4)
released.
- 18 May 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (work3)
released.
- 10 May 2010
-
The
Czechoslovak TeX Users Group
joins our
corporate sponsorship program.
(no longer active)
- 23 Mar 2010
-
Lua Programming Gems available as
e-book.
- 10 Mar 2010
-
Roberto
talks at the
Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
on
the design of Lua.
Watch the
video.
See the
slides.
- 09 Mar 2010
-
Tutorial on
Lua scripting in game production
given at
GDC 2010.
See the
slides.
- 01 Mar 2010
-
Adobe
joins our
corporate sponsorship program.
(no longer active)
- 20 Jan 2010
-
Lua forums
relocated to LuaHUB,
courtesy of Stefan Peters and Brett Kapilik.
(no longer exists)
- 18 Jan 2010
-
Second edition of
Programming in Lua
available as
e-book.
(now the third edition)
- 13 Jan 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (work2)
released.
- 08 Jan 2010
-
Lua 5.2 (work1)
released.
- 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!
- 06–07 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 available in
Hungarian.
(no longer exists)
- 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.
(no longer active)
- 06 Jun 2008
-
Announced
corporate sponsorship program:
Océ is our first corporate sponsor.
(no longer active)
- 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 available in
Russian.
(no longer exists)
- 21 Feb 2008
-
Live Lua
demo
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).
- 20 Dec 2007
-
Launched campaign to
Write "Lua" Right!
- 18 Dec 2007
-
Reference manual 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 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.
Read a
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 PUC-Rio
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.
- 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 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.
- 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
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 available,
courtesy of Shannon Bailey.
Read the original
announcement
(but note that the URL has changed).
- 18 Nov 2005
-
Lua 5.1 (beta)
released.
- 16 Nov 2005
-
Started plans for the
Lua Workshop 2006.
Read the
announcement.
- 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.
- 16 Mar 2005
-
Roberto
talks about Lua at the
1a Semana de Software Livre da PUC-Rio.
- 04 Mar 2005
-
Lua 5.1 (work5)
released.
- 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.
- 30 Dec 2004
-
Lua 5.1 (work4)
released.
- 06 Dec 2004
-
Lua 5.1 (work3)
released.
- 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
hosted by
Pepperfish,
courtesy of Daniel Silverstone.
- 20 Sep 2004
-
Lua 5.1 (work2)
released.
- 01 Sep 2004
-
Lua 5.1 (work1)
released.
- 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.
- 01 May 2004
-
LabLua
founded.
- 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.
- 17 Mar 2004
-
Lua 5.0.2
released.
This is a bug-fix release.
- 15 Dec 2003
-
The book
Programming in Lua
by Roberto Ierusalimschy is published.
- 27 Nov 2003
-
Added page listing
individuals 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.
(moved to lists.lua.org)
- 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.
(moved to LuaHUB)
- 14 Jan 2003
-
The Year in Scripting Languages
released. It contains a review of what happened to Lua in 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.
(web traffic statistics no longer available)
- 15 Aug 2002
-
Lua 5.0 (alpha) released.
Check out the
commemorative logo.
- 18 Jul 2002
-
Source code available for browsing.
- 10 Jul 2002
-
Newsgroup interface
to the mailing list available at
Gmane.
(no longer active)
- 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.
Lua is certified
Open Source
software.
Its license is simple and liberal and is
compatible with GPL.
Lua is not in the public domain and
PUC-Rio
keeps its copyright.
- 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.
(no longer active)
- 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.
- 03 Dec 2001
-
Lua IRC channel
#lua created at Open Projects Network
(now freenode).
- 20 Aug 2001
-
lua-users.org,
a meeting place for Lua users,
is 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 at CafePress.
Use Lua, wear Lua!
(no longer exists)
- 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.
(no longer active)
- 19 Mar 2001
-
lua.org
is online,
courtesy of Jim Mathies and
Soho One.
- 06 Nov 2000
-
Lua 4.0
released.
Check out its
features.
- 23 Oct 2000
-
Added press releases in
English
and
Portuguese.
(no longer available)
- 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).
(no longer exists)
- 24 Apr 2000
-
Lua 4.0 (alpha) released.
- 19 Apr 2000
-
New
mirror in
Denmark,
courtesy of uCore Technology.
(no longer active)
- 29 Mar 2000
-
New
mirror in
Japan,
courtesy of the University of Aizu.
(no longer active)
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.
(no longer active)
- 01 Feb 2000
-
Lua 3.2 included in
Dr. Dobb's Alternative Programming Languages Release 3 CD-ROM.
- 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.
(no longer exists)
- 18 Feb 1999
-
New
mirror in
Germany,
courtesy of GWDG.
(no longer active)
- 18 Feb 1999
-
New
mirror in
the US,
courtesy of cdrom.com.
(no longer exists)
- 15 Sep 1998
-
Mailing list archive available at ftp sites.
(no longer active)
- 11 Jul 1998
-
Lua 3.1
released.
Check out its
features.
Introduced a new
official logo.
- 06 Nov 1997
-
Launched new web site.
Read the
announcement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 28 Nov 1995
-
Lua 2.2
released.
Check out its
features.
- 07 Feb 1995
-
Lua 2.1
released.
Check out its
features.
Created
home page.
- 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.
- 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.