Lua 5.4.0 (rc4) is now available for testing at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-rc4.tar.gz The checksums are MD5 6597ee9049e4bf911f970b5f498c42bc - SHA1 9754806b792145dc3208b68665b23f6d2b5e1682 - This is the final version of Lua 5.4.0 (rc4). The main changes in Lua 5.4.0 are listed at http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes An updated reference manual is included and also available at http://www.lua.org/work/doc The complete diffs from rc3 to rc4 are available at http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.4.0-rc3-rc4.html http://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.4.0-rc3-rc4.html To build Lua in a common Unix-like platform, just do make The Makefile will guess your platform using uname and build Lua for it. We welcome feedback on this, which is new, especially more uname targets with explicit rules and fixes for existing ones. We also welcome feedback on the listings output by luac -l -l, because luac has been rewritten to account for the new VM instructions. All feedback welcome. Thanks. --lhf