Lua 5.4.0 (rc5) is now available for testing at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-rc5.tar.gz The checksums are MD5 4425152a3105df139a72aba2fb1eec93 - SHA1 dd23dade0313915a65adc360591a063db797477c - This is the final version of Lua 5.4.0 (rc5). 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 rc4 to rc5 are available at http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.4.0-rc4-rc5.html http://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.4.0-rc4-rc5.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