Work area
Work area
This is the repository of work versions, release candidates, and other pre-releases of Lua.
There are none at the moment. See the latest releases below.
If you have arrived here by accident, start here.
If you are looking for released versions, check out the download area.
All files are distributed under this license. Check their checksums to confirm the integrity of the packages.
Here is a partial history of Lua releases. You can see a list of bugs and the differences between minor releases.
| release | date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lua 5.5.1 | 2026-08-03 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.5.0 | 2025-12-22 | bugs | |
| Lua 5.4.8 | 2025-06-04 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.7 | 2024-06-25 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.6 | 2023-05-13 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.5 | 2023-04-29 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.4 | 2022-01-27 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.3 | 2021-03-29 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.2 | 2020-12-03 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.1 | 2020-10-09 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.4.0 | 2020-06-29 | bugs | |
| Lua 5.3.6 | 2020-09-25 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.5 | 2018-07-10 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.4 | 2017-01-30 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.3 | 2016-06-06 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.2 | 2015-11-30 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.1 | 2015-06-17 | bugs | diffs |
| Lua 5.3.0 | 2015-01-12 | bugs | |
| Lua 5.2.4 | 2015-03-07 | bugs | diffs |