[ANN] Lua 5.5.0 (rc3) now available

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo]

Lua 5.5 is the next version of Lua.

Lua 5.5.0 (rc3) is now available for testing at
https://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.5.0-rc3.tar.gz

The SHA256 checksum is
f1a812cdcc3916f7441aec725014403177e0ef08ace097189548208f9605b2b3  -

The Git commit ID is
104b0fc7008b1f6b7d818985fbbad05cd37ee654

The main changes in Lua 5.5.0 are listed at
https://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes

An updated reference manual is included and also available at
https://www.lua.org/work/doc

The complete diffs from rc2 to rc3 are available at
https://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.5.0-rc2-rc3.html
https://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.5.0-rc2-rc3.html

A test suite is available at
https://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.5.0-tests.tar.gz

All feedback welcome. Thanks.
--lhf

[sur-behoffski]

On 2025-12-09 04:16, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Lua 5.5 is the next version of Lua.
>
> Lua 5.5.0 (rc3) is now available for testing at

> https://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.5.0-rc3.tar.gz [...]

> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf

No surprises here, compiles and installs with GNU/Linux "lglicua".

Distro: LinuxMint 22.2
Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic
GCC: Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0

As expected, LuaRocks 3.12.2 explicitly excludes 5.5(.x) at
configuration time, so the installation fails. (I understand
that a new version of LuaRocks is in preparation...)

cheers, s-b etc.