Lua 5.3.0 (beta) is now available for testing at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-beta.tar.gz MD5 e46b91de3d22a308d3350a14b242e2c7 - SHA1 0fa2b527611fe3a1b083359ce15e91f27b108eec - This is a beta version. A few details may change in the final version. The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is the introduction of integers. See also http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes Another change, new in beta, is the introduction of string.pack and string.unpack, which replace and extend string.dump* and string.undump*. The complete diffs are available at http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.3.0-alpha-beta.txt A test suite is available at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.beta-tests.tar.gz All feedback welcome. Thanks. --lhf