Work area
Work area
This is the repository of work versions, release candidates, and other pre-releases of Lua.
We are getting ready to release
Lua 5.5,
the next version of Lua.
Download and try the
latest release candidate below.
Read
instructions if you need them.
See a
preview of the manual
and a
list of the main changes.
Some details may change in the final version.
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 | checksum (sha256) |
|---|---|---|---|
| lua-5.5.0-rc3.tar.gz | 2025-12-08 | 398194 | f1a812cdcc3916f7441aec725014403177e0ef08ace097189548208f9605b2b3 |
| lua-5.5.0-rc2.tar.gz | 2025-12-01 | 397952 | 50b24b8fce4644a4590af0f23c65945836161515b9e87c45ee1f0e62b0255a1d |
| lua-5.5.0-rc1.tar.gz | 2025-11-15 | 396959 | 34a4dcca0c04877fbce4baff54054b9793b70bca5d8c676ca4d3504dd47c3772 |
| lua-5.5.0-beta.tar.gz | 2025-06-28 | 393374 | 30897f95fc72565cb6c1792f721ad44e1a42e7ac587f62f7587807b3cbff1645 |
| lua-5.5.0-tests.tar.gz | 2025-12-08 | 148921 | a07dfecab6488b492ab6088e0807cd4d38e7e7ba32f1c2fcdae0b8802aeadf5d |
| diffs-lua-5.5.0-rc2-rc3.html | 2025-12-08 | 9364 | 1b338623516865c944cc65593c97203a612d7861eeff58e8a6d154137cc9c84d |
| diffu-lua-5.5.0-rc2-rc3.html | 2025-12-08 | 12577 | 15f347d808c6aea328eb316d4856a02b5c358688726bd223854d2f39b054617d |
| diffs-lua-5.5.0-rc1-rc2.html | 2025-12-01 | 28688 | 9c8ab3697e33ee20e5c702039c62f9d13a2f1c9e0e4e99414c4ef57cf01d63cc |
| diffu-lua-5.5.0-rc1-rc2.html | 2025-12-01 | 39367 | fdc69389377ae550df6879fa833015012a80a91a32de0ad7ec718a1805ac20f8 |
| diffs-lua-5.5.0-beta-rc1.html | 2025-11-15 | 132164 | 109dcf2b140b821ae7e43e316151442f52baa9f5659fef66f5955defd9d4fc6b |
| diffu-lua-5.5.0-beta-rc1.html | 2025-11-15 | 184885 | ceb89001ea16f1cb29366eb5641c66167e69cf2ea9058bb68176ac6ca6a3a440 |
Lua 5.4.8 was released on 4 Jun 2025. It is a bug-fix release of Lua 5.4. See the diffs.
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.