03 Mar 2019 Lua in Moscow Conference 2019 held in Moscow.
2018
26 Oct 2018 "A look at the design of Lua" published in Communications of the ACM. Watch the video.
06–07 Sep 2018 Lua Workshop 2018 held in Kaunas, Lithuania.
20–22 Jul 2018 TUG 2018 held in Rio de Janeiro. The Lua team are special guests.
10 Jul 2018 Lua 5.3.5 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
07 Jul 2018 Lua Workshop 2018 to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, cortesy of CUJO.
18 Jun 2018 Lua 5.4.0 (work2) released.
13 Mar 2018 Lua 5.4.0 (work1) released.
01 Jan 2018 Happy New Year! We commemorate 25 years of Lua in 2018.
2017
16–17 Oct 2017Lua Workshop 2017 held in San Francisco.
16 Aug 2017 Roberto participates in Seminário Inovanças at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio.
24 Jul 2017 Lua Workshop 2017 to be held in San Francisco, CA, courtesy of Kong.
05 Jul 2017 Added showcase page.
20 Jun 2017 Roberto gives a keynote at Curry On 2017. Watch the video.
03 Jun 2017 LuaConf 2017 held in Rio de Janeiro.
25 Apr 2017 Fourth edition of Programming in Lua available as e-book.
25 Apr 2017 Lua features in the "Inovanças – Creations Brazilian style" exhibition at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio. Watch the welcome video and read the catalog. Watch the video about Lua.
23 Mar 2017 Roberto will give a keynote at Curry On 2017 in June.
05 Mar 2017 Lua in Moscow Conference 2017 held in Moscow.
20 Feb 2017 Mailing list turns 20. Read the announcement.
30 Jan 2017 Lua 5.3.4 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
08 Jan 2017 LuaConf 2017 to be held in June. Read the announcement.
2016
13–14 Oct 2016 Lua Workshop 2016 held in San Francisco.
01 Aug 2016 Fourth edition of Programming in Lua published.
09 Jul 2016 LuaConf 2016 held in Rio de Janeiro.
06 Jun 2016 Lua 5.3.3 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
06 May 2016 Get 20% off when you buy Programando em Lua through lua.org
15 Mar 2016 lua.org now accepts https connections, courtesy of Pepperfish.
09 Mar 2016 LuaConf 2016 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, courtesy of Etiene Dalcol and Evandro Gonçalves.
04 Feb 2016 Lua Workshop 2016 to be held in San Francisco, CA, courtesy of Mashape.
2015
30 Nov 2015 Lua 5.3.2 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
15–16 Oct 2015 Lua Workshop 2015 held in Stockholm.
26 Jun 2015 Programando em Lua published. It's a Portuguese translation of the third edition of Programming in Lua.
17 Jun 2015 Lua 5.3.1 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
09 Apr 2015 Lua Workshop 2015 to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, courtesy of King.
07 Mar 2015 Lua 5.2.4 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
12 Jan 2015 Lua 5.3.0 released. Check out its features.
2014
11 Dec 2014 Lua 5.3.0 entered final release-candidate cycle.
23 Oct 2014 Lua 5.3.0 (beta) released.
13–14 Sep 2014 Lua Workshop 2014 held in Moscow.
31 Jul 2014 Lua 5.3.0 (alpha) released.
19 Jun 2014 Lua 5.3.0 (work3) released.
15 Apr 2014 Lua Workshop 2014 to be held in Moscow, Russia, courtesy of Alexander Gladysh.
21 Mar 2014 Lua 5.3.0 (work2) released.
28 Jan 2014 Reference manual available in Portuguese.
2013
07 Dec 2013 Lua 5.2.3 released. This is a bug-fix release.
23–24 Nov 2013 Lua Workshop 2013 held in Toulouse.
02 Oct 2013 CBSoft 2013 celebrates 20 years of Lua. See the slides.
28 Jul 2013 We commemorate 20 years of the first version of Lua today. Read the announcement.
23 Jul 2013 Roberto receives the Scientific Merit Award of the Brazilian Computer Society for his work on Lua.
22 Jul 2003 Added page on getting started with Lua.
12 Jul 2013 Lua Workshop 2013 to be held in Toulouse, France, courtesy of Benjamin Cabé and Kévin Kin-foo.
06 Jul 2013 Lua 5.3.0 (work1) released.
15 May 2013 Roberto gives an invited talk at WWW 2013. See the slides.
14 May 2013 Third edition of Programming in Lua available as e-book.
27 Mar 2013 Lua 5.2.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.
03 Jan 2013 Third edition of Programming in Lua published.
2012
10 Dec 2012 Donations to the Lua project via PayPal are again available.
29–30 Nov 2012 Lua Workshop 2012 held at Verisign.
02–08 Sep 2012 Roberto gives a course on Real Scripting with Lua at the LASER Summer School on Innovative Languages for Software Engineering.
14 Jun 2012 Lua 5.2.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.
21 May 2012 Lua Workshop 2012 to be held at Verisign, courtesy of John Rodriguez.
04 May 2012 LuaJIT gets a dedicated mailing list. Read the announcement.
17 Apr 2012 Lua store opens at Fibers. Use Lua, wear Lua! (no longer active)
02 Apr 2012 Started plans for the Lua Workshop 2012.
20 Feb 2012 Mailing list turns 15. Read the announcement.
17 Feb 2012 Lua 5.1.5 released. This is a bug-fix release.
30 Jan 2012 Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template language. Read the announcement.
13 Jan 2012 Lua wins the Front Line Award 2011 from Game Developers Magazine in the category Programming Tools.
09 Jan 2012 Roberto visits Stanford University for three months on a Tinker Professorship.
2011
16 Dec 2011 Lua 5.2.0 released. Check out its features.
23 Oct 2011 Codea launched, an app to create games and simulations using Lua on the iPad. (formerly known as Codify)
08–09 Sep 2011 Lua Workshop 2011 held in Switzerland.
13 Jul 2011 Lua 5.2 (beta) released.
06 Jun 2011 Lua enters the top 10 languages of the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
12 May 2011 "Passing a language through the eye of a needle" published in ACM Queue. Later also published in Communications of the ACM.
26 Apr 2011 Lua Workshop 2011 to be held in Switzerland, courtesy of Marc Balmer.
03 Apr 2011 Lua approaches the top 10 languages of the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
15 Mar 2011 Reference manual available in German.
12 Feb 2011 Started plans for the Lua Workshop 2011.
2010
23 Nov 2010 Lua 5.2 (alpha) released.
30 Oct 2010 Lua 5.2 (work5) released.
01 Oct 2010 SocialMediaPress joins our corporate sponsorship program. (no longer active)
28 Aug 2010 Mailing list has a new home at Pepperfish.
19 Aug 2010 Short scheduled maintenance at lua.org. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.
31 Jul 2010 Lua 5.2 (work4) released.
18 May 2010 Lua 5.2 (work3) released.
10 May 2010 The Czechoslovak TeX Users Group joins our corporate sponsorship program. (no longer active)
23 Mar 2010 Lua Programming Gems available as e-book.
10 Mar 2010 Roberto talks at the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium on the design of Lua. Watch the video. See the slides.
09 Mar 2010 Tutorial on Lua scripting in game production given at GDC 2010. See the slides.
01 Mar 2010 Adobe joins our corporate sponsorship program. (no longer active)
20 Jan 2010 Lua forums relocated to LuaHUB, courtesy of Stefan Peters and Brett Kapilik. (no longer exists)
18 Jan 2010 Second edition of Programming in Lua available as e-book. (now the third edition)