Work area

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

We are getting ready to release Lua 5.3.6, a bug-fix release of Lua 5.3.

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-5.3.6-rc3.tar.gz 303770 md5: 83f23dbd5230140a3770d5f54076948d

sha1: f27d20d6c81292149bc4308525a9d6733c224fa5 lua-5.3.6-rc2.tar.gz 303403 md5: 01d0580e2116d9d53a5b04f85cba3cd4

sha1: 1149da17ad747aa668440b5f60305536c6e0dc04 lua-5.3.6-rc1.tar.gz 303374 md5: e14be0c3cd4be4bb0996f8959bd391df

sha1: 194575efd2ce25dfb8637f4423bba4ef5e53e64f diffs-lua-5.3.5-lua-5.3.6.html 14015 md5: e28fd0692acbf61ad7366032c5f53489

sha1: 388bf593f1f15279c9320b6128e2fea013a5344d diffu-lua-5.3.5-lua-5.3.6.html 21821 md5: 294a58ec213b7916d1862d990bcbd8c7

sha1: 14dd02e8b06508551276b52183a29b3f345cd3d6

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

Lua 5.3.5 was released on 10 Jul 2018. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.3. See the diffs.

Get a copy of these releases here.