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 5.4.8, 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 5.4.8

filename date size checksum (sha256)
lua-5.4.8-rc1.tar.gz 2025-05-21 374332 4f18ddae154e793e46eeab727c59ef1c0c0c2b744e7b94219710d76f530629ae
lua-5.4.8-tests.tar.gz 2025-05-21 137066 9581d5a7c39ffbf29b8ccde2709083c380f7bbddbd968dcb15712d2f2e33f4e5
diffs-lua-5.4.7-lua-5.4.8.html 2025-05-21 9350 9be955ada9b672b57ac944022d65db0ef0ca42b857273449b0d9a5919791d346
diffu-lua-5.4.7-lua-5.4.8.html 2025-05-21 17206 ad490fc42b8665d87abc88ebb863e0e794944477285abb98da94696718cb32a2

Latest releases

Lua 5.4.7 was released on 25 Jun 2024. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.

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.