Work area

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

We are getting ready to release Lua 5.4.1, 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.

All files are distributed under this license. Check their checksums to confirm the integrity of the packages.

filename date size checksums lua-5.4.1-rc1.tar.gz 353965 md5: 1d575faef1c907292edd79e7a2784d30

sha1: 88961e7d4fda58ca2c6163938fd48db8880e803d lua-5.4.1-tests.tar.gz 128646 md5: 1bcf2e21fcb1aa37afc2b5e3335b05cf

sha1: de77e590207a2fe034524f50848e56b748f24129 diffs-lua-5.4.0-lua-5.4.1.html 80792 md5: 708fb63e268bed68b34405d7a9c0dcd5

sha1: c92661e23781df82b65427c6acc5b0d9ac3eebbe diffu-lua-5.4.0-lua-5.4.1.html 112330 md5: 94af4fa1c5b881d03dd3779115e20f13

sha1: c002abc831dd3224f2f22336d0870faaf510c26d

Lua 5.3.6 was released on 25 Sep 2020. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.3. 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.