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-tests.tar.gz 2024-05-09 136434 93725c3df2026119c1e7a64e4605024c32cd4269c292612a3bdb3b71d46c5134
diffs-lua-5.4.6-lua-5.4.7.html 2024-05-09 53508 bc00c10c591414672f11c9ad45d085699a446d801309183f8a935b7c86814abd
diffu-lua-5.4.6-lua-5.4.7.html 2024-05-09 79227 d47c8fdb640eb24979cd7a5673cd2e95159cfb76d9b434cb206976972bcd00cc

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.