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Here is a summary of the main events around and about Lua.
Check also the announcements in the mailing list, the recent changes in the site, and our RSS feeds.

2024

25 Jun 2024: Lua 5.4.7 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
02 Mar 2024: lua-users.org is back online.
01 Jan 2024: Happy New Year!

2023

20 Dec 2023: lua.org moved to a new host in Switzerland, courtesy of Marc Balmer.
11 Dec 2023: Mailing list moved to Google Groups.
01 Dec 2023: Building a Programming Language course with Roberto. Read the announcement.
17 Oct 2023: Lua Workshop 2023 held in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate 30 years of Lua.
18 Aug 2023: Building a Programming Language course with Roberto. Read the announcement.
14 May 2023: Lua 5.4.6 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
29 Apr 2023: Lua 5.4.5 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
17 Mar 2023: Building a Programming Language course with Roberto. Read the announcement.
01 Jan 2023: We commemorate 30 years of Lua in 2023.

2022

08 Nov 2022: Roberto interviewed in We Speak Your Language.
19 Oct 2022: Lua Programming Gems is now freely available.
10 Oct 2022: Lua Workshop 2022 held at Freiburg.
13 Sep 2022: Lua receives the Pedro Ernesto Medal, the highest decoration given by the city of Rio de Janeiro.
02 Jul 2022: Building a Programming Language course with Roberto. Read the announcement.
26 Jan 2022: Lua 5.4.4 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.

2021

09 Aug 2021: Roberto talks about Lua at the SIGGRAPH 2021 Retrospective.
16 Jul 2021: Video about Lua and Roblox published by TV PUC-Rio.
29 Mar 2021: Lua 5.4.3 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
15 Jan 2021: "Lua, a misunderstood language", a blog post by Andre Alves Garzia.

2020

03 Dec 2020: Lua 5.4.2 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
29 Oct 2020: Roberto talks live about Lua. See the announcement. (in Portuguese)
09 Oct 2020: Lua 5.4.1 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
25 Sep 2020: Lua 5.3.6 released. This is a bug-fix release. See the diffs.
29 Jun 2020: Lua 5.4.0 released. Check out its features.
10 Jun 2020: Lua Workshop 2021 to be held in Freiburg, Germany. (postponed to 2022)
06 Feb 2020: Lua Workshop 2020 to be held in Freiburg, Germany. Read the announcement. (postponed to 2021)

2019

16 Oct 2019: Lua 5.4.0 (beta) released.
13 Jun 2019: Lua 5.4.0 (alpha) released.
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: We commemorate 25 years of Lua in 2018.

2017

16–17 Oct 2017: Lua 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. See some photos.
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)
13 Jan 2010: Lua 5.2 (work2) released.
08 Jan 2010: Lua 5.2 (work1) released.

2009

17 Dec 2009: A full-day tutorial on Lua scripting in game production will be given at GDC 2010.
28 Oct 2009: Lua store opens at Zazzle. Use Lua, wear Lua!
06–07 Oct 2009: Lua Workshop 2009 held in Rio de Janeiro.
21 Aug 2009: Roberto gives an introductory Lua course at SBLP 2009.
12 Aug 2009: Created Lua BR, a versão brasileira da lista de Lua.
LatinoWare 2009 promotes an Ecological Games Contest in which entries using Lua will get a bonus.
20–21 Jul 2009: Roberto gives an introductory Lua course at JAI 2009.
23 Jun 2009: Ansca announces the Corona SDK for writing native iPhone applications in Lua. Read the announcement.
08 Jun 2009: Google introduces the Android Scripting Environment with support for Lua.
28 May 2009: Lua Workshop 2009 to be held in Rio de Janeiro.
18 May 2009: The book Concepts of Programming Languages includes sections on Lua and a brief interview with Roberto.
15 Apr 2009: Short scheduled maintenance at lua.org. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.
27 Mar 2009: Interview with the Lua team to appear in the book Masterminds of Programming.
12 Jan 2009: Reference manual available in Hungarian. (no longer exists)

2008

01 Dec 2008: Lua Programming Gems published. Read the announcement.
19 Sep 2008: Roberto talks about Lua at PyConBrasil 2008. See the slides.
11 Sep 2008: Roberto interviewed for Computerworld's The A-Z of Programming Languages.
22 Aug 2008: Lua 5.1.4 released. This is a bug-fix release.
14–15 Jul 2008: Lua Workshop 2008 held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C..
01 Jul 2008: TYPO3 (AOE media) joins our corporate sponsorship program. (no longer active)
06 Jun 2008: Announced corporate sponsorship program: Océ is our first corporate sponsor. (no longer active)
30 May 2008: Roberto talks about Lua at JAOO 2008, in Brisbane and Sydney.
13 May 2008: Chinese translation of Programming in Lua published.
07 May 2008: Patch for Lua 5.1.3 released. (superseded by Lua 5.1.4)
13 Mar 2008: Reference manual available in Russian. (no longer exists)
21 Feb 2008: Live Lua demo available.
25 Jan 2008: Lua 5.1.3 released. This is a bug-fix release.
24 Jan 2008: "Introductory Lua programming" by Yutaka Ueno published (in Japanese).

2007

20 Dec 2007: Launched campaign to Write "Lua" Right!
18 Dec 2007: Reference manual available in Spanish.
09 Dec 2007: Lua Workshop 2008 to be held at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., courtesy of Matthew Burke. Read the preliminary announcement.
10 Sep 2007: Reference manual available in Portuguese.
28 Aug 2007: Article on LuaView appears in LabVIEW World (in Italian).
23 Aug 2007: Article "Traveling light, the Lua way" by Ashwin Hirschi appears in IEEE Software. Read a review.
05 Aug 2007: Lua climbs to position 15 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
17 Jul 2007: Workshop on LuaTeX held at TUG 2007. Watch the videos of the talks.
08 Jul 2007: Lua climbs to position 18 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
25 Jun 2007: Korean translation of Programming in Lua published.
09 Jun 2007: Paper on the evolution of Lua presented at the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL III), a part of FCRC 2007. See the slides and the video.
09 May 2007: Article on Lua to appear in Linux Journal.
28–29 Apr 2007: Scheduled maintenance at lua.org. Mirror site at PUC-Rio activated during downtime.
02 Apr 2007: Lua 5.1.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.
06 Mar 2007: Lua climbs to position 25 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
20 Feb 2007: Mailing list turns 10. Read the announcement.
01 Feb 2007: 43 abstracts selected for Lua Programming Gems.

2006

24 Nov 2006: Released call for contributions to Lua Programming Gems.
06 Oct 2006: German translation of Programming in Lua published.
05 Oct 2006: Lua entered the top 50 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
04–05 Sep 2006: Lua Workshop 2006 held at Océ. See photos and videos.
17 Aug 2006: Reference manual available as a book. Buy a copy and help to support the Lua project.
06 Jul 2006: Created official page for the Lua Workshop 2006.
30 Jun 2006: A poll at GameDev.net shows Lua as the favorite embeddable scripting language.
26 Jun 2006: Lua 5.0.3 released. This is a bug-fix release.
09 Jun 2006: Lua 5.1.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.
03 Jun 2006: Lua elected for DistroWatch May 2006 donation.
23 Mar 2006: Second edition of Programming in Lua published.
21 Feb 2006: Lua 5.1 released. Check out its features.
15 Feb 2006: Lua Workshop 2006 to be held at the Océ R&D site in Venlo (NL), courtesy of Wim Couwenberg. Read the announcement.
23 Jan 2006: Some audio recordings from the Lua Workshop 2005 available, courtesy of Shannon Bailey. Read the original announcement (but note that the URL has changed).

2005

18 Nov 2005: Lua 5.1 (beta) released.
16 Nov 2005: Started plans for the Lua Workshop 2006. Read the announcement.
04 Nov 2005: Lua In Games Roundtable to be held in GDC 2006.
29 Sep 2005: Game Development with Lua published.
09 Sep 2005: Lua 5.1 (alpha) released.
01 Sep 2005: Paper on the evolution of Lua submitted to ACM HOPL III.
11 Aug 2005: Roberto presents a Lua case study at Computação & Mercado 2005.
03 Aug 2005: Mailing list reaches 1000 subscribers, another all-time record.
27–28 Jul 2005: Lua Workshop 2005 held at Adobe. Slides for most of the talks are available. Also some photos.
20 Jun 2005: Roberto talks about Lua at the Politecnico di Milano. The audio is available (also here).
20 Jun 2005: First Lua certification exam announced. (no longer exists)
23 May 2005: Paper on the implementation of Lua 5.0 presented at the IX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.
18 May 2005: Lua 5.1 (work6) released.
16 Mar 2005: Roberto talks about Lua at the 1^a Semana de Software Livre da PUC-Rio.
04 Mar 2005: Lua 5.1 (work5) released.
03 Mar 2005: Lua Workshop 2005 to be held at Adobe, courtesy of Mark Hamburg. Read the announcement.
23 Feb 2005: Paper on the implementation of Lua 5.0 submitted to IX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.
22 Jan 2005: New Lua forum in Portuguese. (no longer exists)
11 Jan 2005: Mailing list reaches 800 subscribers, an all-time record.

2004

30 Dec 2004: Lua 5.1 (work4) released.
06 Dec 2004: Lua 5.1 (work3) released.
27 Nov 2004: Why Lua is not BASIC by Gavin Wraith appears in Frobnicate 22 (autumn 2004 issue).
21 Oct 2004: Tutorial on Lua given at WJogos 2004. Read the notes and the slides (in Portuguese).
04 Oct 2004: lua.org hosted by Pepperfish, courtesy of Daniel Silverstone.
20 Sep 2004: Lua 5.1 (work2) released.
01 Sep 2004: Lua 5.1 (work1) released.
23 Jul 2004: Article on Lua to appear in Linux Magazine.
05 Jul 2004: The book Programming in Lua is online.
Lua web forums recreated at Icy North Technologies, courtesy of Brett Kapilik. (moved to LuaHUB)
23 Jun 2004: LuaForge opens. Read the announcement.
01 May 2004: LabLua founded.
28 Apr 2004: Added page for receiving donations to help support Lua.
24 Mar 2004: Roundtable about Lua in the gaming industry held at Game Developers Conference 2004. Read the report.
23 Mar 2004: Lua 5.1 (work0) released.
17 Mar 2004: Lua 5.0.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.

2003

15 Dec 2003: The book Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy is published.
27 Nov 2003: Added page listing individuals and institutions that have supported Lua.
25 Nov 2003: Lua 5.0.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.
08 Nov 2003: Roberto gives a talk about the innards of Lua at Lightweight Languages 2003. See the slides.
29 Sep 2003: A poll at GameDev.net shows Lua as the most popular language for game scripting.
16 Jun 2003: Added page listing all known bugs in Lua since Lua 4.0.
07 Jun 2003: Roberto gives an invited talk on Lua at the IV Forum Internacional Software Livre. See the slides.
19 May 2003: Mirror of mailing list at Yahoo! Groups closed down.
14 May 2003: Mailing list has a new home, courtesy of Conectiva and Gustavo Niemeyer. (moved to lists.lua.org)
06 May 2003: Added a version history page listing the main features in each version.
11 Apr 2003: Lua 5.0 released. Check out its features.
10 Mar 2003: Yet another web interface for the mailing list archive, courtesy of David Jeske. (no longer active)
11 Feb 2003: Added page listing recent changes in the site and an RSS feed.
05 Feb 2003: Lua web forums created at Icy North Technologies, courtesy of Brett Kapilik. (moved to LuaHUB)
14 Jan 2003: The Year in Scripting Languages released. It contains a review of what happened to Lua in 2002.

2002

17 Dec 2002: Lua 5.0 (beta) released.
29 Aug 2002: Started page with papers and theses on Lua.
22 Aug 2002: Added pages with web traffic statistics and mailing list traffic statistics. (web traffic statistics no longer available)
15 Aug 2002: Lua 5.0 (alpha) released. Check out the commemorative logo.
18 Jul 2002: Source code available for browsing.
10 Jul 2002: Newsgroup interface to the mailing list available at Gmane. (no longer active)
04 Jul 2002: Lua 4.0.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.
25 May 2002: New web interface for the mailing list archive, courtesy of John Belmonte.
21 May 2002: Future versions of Lua will be released under the MIT license. See the new license page.
13 Mar 2002: Updated mirrors page: mirrors at Waterloo, Universität Trier, and freesoftware.com no longer exist.
21 Feb 2002: Added search page.
19 Feb 2002: Lua Library Design Workshop held at Harvard University.
30 Jan 2002: New mirror in Denmark, courtesy of SunSITE.dk. (no longer active)
28 Jan 2002: Moved links page to lua-users.org/wiki/LuaLinks.
14 Jan 2002: Moved tools page to lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons.
07 Jan 2002: Added user survey to help us know our community better. Please take a few minutes to answer it.

2001

03 Dec 2001: Lua IRC channel #lua created at Open Projects Network (now freenode).
20 Aug 2001: lua-users.org, a meeting place for Lua users, is online, courtesy of John Belmonte.
25 Jul 2001: Lua 4.1 (alpha) released. (removed; the next version will be 5.0)
29 May 2001: Lua store opens at CafePress. Use Lua, wear Lua! (no longer exists)
24 May 2001: Roberto gives an invited talk on the history of Lua at the V Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.
08 May 2001: New mirror in Russia, courtesy of the Chernogolovka Science Center. (no longer active)
19 Mar 2001: lua.org is online, courtesy of Jim Mathies and Soho One.

2000

06 Nov 2000: Lua 4.0 released. Check out its features.
23 Oct 2000: Added press releases in English and Portuguese. (no longer available)
03 Oct 2000: Added page with press clippings.
21 Sep 2000: Lua 4.0 (beta) released.
23 Aug 2000: Mailing list is back.
20 Aug 2000: Article on Lua appeared in the Adventurer Paradise (in Portuguese). (no longer exists)
24 Apr 2000: Lua 4.0 (alpha) released.
19 Apr 2000: New mirror in Denmark, courtesy of uCore Technology. (no longer active)
29 Mar 2000: New mirror in Japan, courtesy of the University of Aizu. (no longer active)
Added page listing all mirror sites.
15 Mar 2000: Mirror in the US moved to ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/languages/lua/. (no longer exists)
22 Feb 2000: Lua 3.2.2 released. This is a bug-fix release.
16 Feb 2000: Launched Lua Technical Notes. (no longer active)
01 Feb 2000: Lua 3.2 included in Dr. Dobb's Alternative Programming Languages Release 3 CD-ROM.

1999

20 Dec 1999: Added page with user quotes.
25 Nov 1999: Lua 3.2.1 released. This is a bug-fix release.
09 Nov 1999: Added summary page in Portuguese.
08 Jul 1999: Lua 3.2 released. Check out its features.
26 Apr 1999: Lua 3.2 (beta) released.
18 Mar 1999: Mailing list archive available at eGroups.com. (no longer exists)
18 Feb 1999: New mirror in Germany, courtesy of GWDG. (no longer active)
18 Feb 1999: New mirror in the US, courtesy of cdrom.com. (no longer exists)

1998

15 Sep 1998: Mailing list archive available at ftp sites. (no longer active)
11 Jul 1998: Lua 3.1 released. Check out its features. Introduced a new official logo.

1997

06 Nov 1997: Launched new web site. Read the announcement.
05 Nov 1997: Journal paper on Lua awarded the first prize (technological category) in the II Compaq Award for Research and Development in Computer Science. This award is a joint venture of Compaq Computer in Brazil, the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
01 Jul 1997: Lua 3.0 released. Check out its features.
20 Feb 1997: Created mailing list.

1996

01 Dec 1996: Article on Lua published in Dr. Dobb's Journal.
19 Nov 1996: Lua 2.5 released. Check out its features.
01 Jun 1996: Paper on Lua published in Software: Practice & Experience.
14 May 1996: Lua 2.4 released. Check out its features.

1995

28 Nov 1995: Lua 2.2 released. Check out its features.
07 Feb 1995: Lua 2.1 released. Check out its features.
Created home page.

1994

01 Aug 1994: First paper describing Lua presented at the XXI Brazilian Seminar on Software and Hardware.
08 Jul 1994: Lua 1.1 released. This is the first public release of Lua. Check out its features.

1993

29 Oct 1993: First public talk about Lua given at the VII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering.
28 Jul 1993: Lua 1.0 was up and running. This is the earliest implementation of Lua that we have found to date.