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An article about Lua has appeared in The Hosting Blog: "Lua Founding Developer Shares the Scripting Language's Journey and Advantages for App Configuration and Data Management"

Programming in Lua now available as an e-book

https://feistyduck.myshopify.com/products/programming-in-lua-fourth-edition-ebook

Published: April 25, 2017 23:55

The book "Programming in Lua" (4rd edition) is now available as an e-book through Feisty Duck.

Lua at the Museum of Tomorrow

http://museudoamanha.org.br/en/inovancas-creations-brazilian-style

Published: April 23, 2017 23:27

Lua features in the "Inovanças - Creations Brazilian style" exhibition at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio.

Mailing list turns 20

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2017-02/msg00184.html

Published: February 20, 2017 10:15

The Lua mailing list is now 20 years old.

Lua 5.3.4 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.4.tar.gz

Published: January 30, 2017 09:32

Lua 5.3.4 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.3.3.

Lua Workshop 2016 held in San Francisco

https://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/local/wshop16.html

Published: October 14, 2016 11:57

The Lua Workshop 2016 held in San Francisco, CA, cortesy of Mashape.

Fourth edition of "Programming in Lua" published

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/8590379868/lua-news-20

Published: September 5, 2016 16:31

The fourth edition of "Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy has been published.

Lua 5.3.3 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.3.tar.gz

Published: June 6, 2016 21:56

Lua 5.3.3 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.3.2.

https at www.lua.org

https://www.lua.org

Published: March 15, 2016 19:24

lua.org now accepts https connections.

Lua Workshop 2016 to be held in San Francisco

https://www.lua.org/wshop16.html

Published: February 4, 2016 12:04

The Lua Workshop 2016 will be held in San Francisco, CA, on Oct 13-14, cortesy of Mashape.

Lua 5.3.2 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.2.tar.gz

Published: November 30, 2015 11:55

Lua 5.3.2 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.3.1.

Lua Workshop 2015 held in Stockholm

https://www.lua.org/wshop15.html

Published: October 17, 2015 07:00

The Lua Workshop 2015 was held in Stockholm, Sweden, courtesy of King.

Lua 5.3.1 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.1.tar.gz

Published: June 17, 2015 10:43

Lua 5.3.1 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.3.0.

Lua 5.2.4 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.4.tar.gz

Published: March 7, 2015 10:35

Lua 5.2.4 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.2.3.

Lua 5.3.0 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz

Published: January 12, 2015 15:24

The first release of Lua 5.3 is now ready

Lua Workshop 2014 to be held in Moscow

https://www.lua.org/wshop14.html

Published: April 25, 2014 11:19

The Lua Workshop 2014 will be held in Moscow, Russia, on September 13-14, 2014.

Reference manual now available in Portuguese

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/pt/

Published: January 29, 2014 00:44

The Lua 5.2 reference manual has been translated into Portuguese. O manual de referência de Lua 5.2 foi traduzido para o português.

Lua 5.2.3 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz

Published: December 6, 2013 12:58

Lua 5.2.3 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.2.2.

Roberto receives award for Lua

http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1235:premiacoexxxiii

Published: August 2, 2013 11:30

Roberto Ierusalimschy, chief architect of Lua, received the Scientific Merit Award of the Brazilian Computer Society for his work on Lua.

20 years of Lua

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2013-07/msg00846.html

Published: July 28, 2013 23:07

We commemorate 20 years of the first version of Lua today.

Lua Workshop 2013 to be held in Toulouse

https://www.lua.org/wshop13.html

Published: July 13, 2013 00:24

The Lua Workshop 2013 will be held in Toulouse, France, on November 23-24, 2013, as part of Le Capitole du Libre.

Roberto gives an invited talk at WWW 2013

http://www2013.org/program/why-do-we-need-multiple-languages/

Published: May 13, 2013 17:44

Roberto gives an invited talk "Lua versus Javascript: Why do we need multiple languages?" at WWW 2013, the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference.

Lua 5.2.2 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.2.tar.gz

Published: March 27, 2013 13:55

Lua 5.2.2 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.2.1.

Third edition of "Programming in Lua" published

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/859037985X/lua-news-20

Published: January 2, 2013 11:48

The third edition of "Programming in Lua" by Roberto Ierusalimschy has been published.

Reopened donations via PayPal

https://www.lua.org/donations.html

Published: December 10, 2012 18:26

Donations to the Lua project via PayPal are again available.

Lua 5.2.1 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.1.tar.gz

Published: June 15, 2012 01:00

Lua 5.2.1 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.2.0.

Lua Workshop 2012 to be held at Verisign

https://www.lua.org/wshop12.html

Published: May 21, 2012 18:04

The Lua Workshop 2012 will be held at Verisign's headquarters in Reston, Virginia, on November 29-30, 2012.

New LuaJIT mailing list

http://luajit.org/list.html

Published: May 5, 2012 11:30

LuaJIT now has its own mailing list, dedicated to announcements, discussions, bug reports or feature requests.

Lua store opens at Fibers

http://www.fibers.com/shop/Lua

Published: April 17, 2012 21:38

You can help to spread the word about Lua by buying Lua T-shirts at Fibers. Use Lua, wear Lua!

Initial plans for the Lua Workshop 2012

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaWorkshopTwoThousandTwelve

Published: April 3, 2012 16:05

We have started planning the Lua Workshop 2012. Please sign up if you're interested.

Lua 5.1.5 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.5.tar.gz

Published: February 17, 2012 08:41

Lua 5.1.5 has been released. It applies all patches for Lua 5.1.4.

Lua wins Front Line Award 2011

http://www.gdmag.com/blog/2012/01/front-line-award-winners.php

Published: January 16, 2012 12:02

Lua won the Front Line Award 2011 from Game Developers Magazine in the category Programming Tools.

Lua 5.2.0 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.0.tar.gz

Published: December 16, 2011 18:45

The first release of Lua 5.2 is now ready.

Roberto visits Stanford

http://las.stanford.edu/people/tinker-professors

Published: November 7, 2011 16:08

Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of Lua, will be visiting Stanford University for three months on a Tinker Professorship starting in January 2012.

Lua article in ACM Queue

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1983083

Published: May 20, 2011 13:21

The article "Passing a Language through the Eye of a Needle" has appeared in ACM Queue.

Lua Workshop 2011 to be held in Switzerland

https://www.lua.org/wshop11.html

Published: April 27, 2011 14:04

The Lua Workshop 2011 will be held in Frick, Switzerland on September 8-9.

Reference manual now available in German

http://lua.coders-online.net/

Published: March 15, 2011 18:29

The Lua 5.1 reference manual has been translated into German.

Initial plans for the Lua Workshop 2011

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaWorkshopTwoThousandEleven

Published: February 25, 2011 12:39

We have started planning the Lua Workshop 2011. Please sign up if you're interested.

Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) released

https://www.lua.org/work/

Published: November 25, 2010 16:28

The alpha version of Lua 5.2 is now available for testing.

Lua 5.2.0 (work5) released

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00834.html

Published: October 31, 2010 10:26

The fifth work version of Lua 5.2 has been released for testing.

Mailing list has a new home

http://vlists.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lua-l-lists.lua.org

Published: August 28, 2010 16:15

The mailing list has a new home at Pepperfish.

Scheduled maintenance at Lua.org

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/mirror/

Published: August 19, 2010 13:33

Short maintenance scheduled at Lua.org on 20 August. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.

Lua 5.2 (work4) released

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-07/msg00862.html

Published: August 1, 2010 13:47

The fourth work version of Lua 5.2 has been released for testing.

Lua 5.2 (work3) released

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-05/msg00331.html

Published: May 18, 2010 12:42

The third work version of Lua 5.2 has been released for testing.

Lua Programming Gems now available as an e-book

http://store.feistyduck.com/products/lua-programming-gems-ebook

Published: March 23, 2010 13:08

The book "Lua Programming Gems" is now available as an e-book through Feisty Duck.

Roberto talks about Lua at Stanford

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100310.html

Published: March 9, 2010 03:02

Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of Lua, will talk tomorrow at the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium about the design of Lua or "Small is Beautiful".

Lua forums

http://forum.luahub.com/

Published: January 21, 2010 10:14

The Lua web forums have a new home, courtesy of Stefan Peters.

Programming in Lua now available as an e-book

http://store.feistyduck.com/products/programming-in-lua

Published: January 18, 2010 19:08

The book "Programming in Lua" (2nd edition) is now available as an e-book through Feisty Duck.

Lua 5.2 (work2) released

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-01/msg00814.html

Published: January 14, 2010 01:57

The second work version of Lua 5.2 has been released for testing.

Lua 5.2 (work1) released

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-01/msg00260.html

Published: January 10, 2010 00:17

The first work version of Lua 5.2 has been released for testing.

Tutorial on Lua scripting in game production at GDC 2010

http://www.gdconf.com/conference/tutorials.html#103

Published: December 17, 2009 13:27

A full-day tutorial on Lua scripting in game production will be given at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 9th 2010.

Lua store opens at Zazzle

http://www.zazzle.com/Lua_Store

Published: October 28, 2009 20:48

You can help to spread the word about Lua by buying Lua products at Zazzle and CafePress. Use Lua, wear Lua!

Created Lua BR

http://groups.google.com/group/lua-br

Published: August 13, 2009 00:11

Lua BR é a versão brasileira da lista de Lua. Todos são bem vindos! Lua BR is the brazilian version of lua-l. The primary language of Lua BR is meant to be Portuguese. Everyone is welcome.

Ansca announces the Corona SDK based on Lua

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-06/msg00589.html

Published: June 24, 2009 21:47

Ansca has announced the Corona SDK for writing native iPhone applications in Lua.

Google's Android Scripting Environment supports Lua

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-scripting.html

Published: June 9, 2009 13:07

Google introduces the Android Scripting Environment with support for Lua.

Lua Workshop 2009 announced

https://www.lua.org/wshop09.html

Published: May 29, 2009 14:41

This year the Lua Workshop will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 6-7, 2009.

"Concepts of Programming Languages" discusses Lua

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0136073476,00.html

Published: May 18, 2009 22:02

The 9th edition of the book "Concepts of Programming Languages" includes sections on Lua and a brief interview with Roberto.

Scheduled maintenance at Lua.org

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/

Published: April 13, 2009 00:27

Short maintenance scheduled at Lua.org on 15 April. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.

Interview to appear in "Masterminds of Programming"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596515170/lua-news-20

Published: March 27, 2009 17:57

The book "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages" includes an interview with the Lua team.

Reference manual now available in Hungarian

http://thor.4242.hu/scripting/manual_hu.html

Published: January 12, 2009 11:16

The Lua 5.1 reference manual has been translated into Hungarian.

Roberto interviewed in Computerworld

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1028768484

Published: September 12, 2008 03:14

Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of Lua, was interviewed about Lua in Computerworld's "The A-Z of Programming Languages" series.

Lua 5.1.4 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz

Published: August 22, 2008 03:22

Lua 5.1.4 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.1.3.

New corporate sponsorship program

https://www.lua.org/sponsors.html

Published: June 7, 2008 00:48

We have launched a corporate sponsorship program for the Lua project and Océ is our first corporate sponsor.

Roberto talks about Lua at JAOO 2008

http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2008/presentation/Learn+LUA+in+20+minutes

Published: May 27, 2008 16:55

Roberto Ierusalimschy, the chief architect of Lua, will talk at the JAOO Australia conference in Brisbane and Sydney.

Chinese translation of "Programming in Lua" published

http://www.phei.com.cn/bookshop/bookinfo.asp?bookcode=TP061870%20&booktype=new

Published: May 13, 2008 14:35

A Chinese translation of the book "Programming in Lua" has been published.

Patch for Lua 5.1.3 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/patch-lua-5.1.3

Published: May 10, 2008 18:40

A patch file fixing all known bugs in Lua 5.1.3 is now available.

Reference manual now available in Russian

http://www.lua.ru/doc/

Published: March 13, 2008 14:22

The Lua 5.1 reference manual has been translated into Russian.

Live Lua demo now available

https://www.lua.org/demo.html

Published: February 22, 2008 03:50

You can now try Lua directly in your browser.

Lua 5.1.3 released

https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.3.tar.gz

Published: January 25, 2008 14:46

Lua 5.1.3 has been released. It fixes all known bugs in Lua 5.1.2.

"Introductory Lua programming" published

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4797342722

Published: January 24, 2008 23:05

The book "Introductory Lua programming" by Yutaka Ueno has been published (in Japanese).

Reference manual now available in Spanish

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/es/

Published: December 18, 2007 20:09

The Lua 5.1 reference manual has been translated into Spanish.

Lua Workshop 2008 to be held in Washington, D.C.

https://www.lua.org/wshop08.html

Published: December 12, 2007 16:19

Lua Workshop 2008 to be held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Reference manual now available in Portuguese

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/pt/

Published: September 11, 2007 12:29

The Lua 5.1 reference manual has been translated into Portuguese. O manual de referência de Lua 5.1 foi traduzido para o português.

"Traveling light, the Lua way" appears in IEEE Software

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2007.150

Published: August 23, 2007 12:33

The article "Traveling light, the Lua way" by Ashwin Hirschi of Reflexis has appeared in IEEE Software.

Workshop on LuaTeX held at TUG 2007

http://tug.org/tug2007/

Published: July 17, 2007 21:00

A workshop on LuaTeX, an extended version of pdfTeX that embeds Lua, was held at the TUG 2007, the 28th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group.

Korean translation of "Programming in Lua" published

http://insightbook.springnote.com/pages/253177

Published: June 26, 2007 01:48

A Korean translation of the book "Programming in Lua" has been published by Insight.

Article on Lua at ACM HOPL III

http://research.ihost.com/hopl/HOPL.html

Published: June 9, 2007 17:30

The paper "The Evolution of Lua" was presented at the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL III).

Article on Lua in IEEE Software

Published: May 16, 2007 00:36

The article "Traveling light, the Lua way" by Ashwin Hirschi will appear in the IEEE Software special issue on Rapid Application Development with Dynamically Typed Languages (September/October 2007).

Article on Lua in Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/abstracts/2007-06/bt9605

Published: May 11, 2007 10:12

The article "A Look at Lua" by Joseph Quigley will appear in the June 2007 issue of the Linux Journal.

Mailing list turns 10

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-02/msg00356.html

Published: February 24, 2007 11:13

The Lua mailing list is now 10 years old.

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