[ANNOUNCE] Lua 4.1 (alpha) now available

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

Lua 4.1 (alpha) is now available for downloading at
	http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-4.1-alpha.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lua.org/lua-4.1-alpha.tar.gz
and also at the mirrors at TeCGraf and Waterloo.
The other mirrors will be updated automatically by their own robots soon.

The final version of Lua 4.1 will include a reference manual in HTML,
but this alpha distribution does not.  A PDF version is available at
	http://www.lua.org/ftp/refman-4.1-alpha.pdf
	ftp://ftp.lua.org/refman-4.1-alpha.pdf
and the mirrors above.

Please take some time to read the manual, specially the part about
user-defined types.

* New in version 4.1 (alpha)
  --------------------------
  + support for external multi-threading and coroutines.
  + support for weak tables.
  + user-defined types (= names for tags).
  + safe garbage-collector tag methods.
  + new library functions and API functions.
  + new, faster, register-based virtual machine.
  + precompiled bytecodes checked for integrity.
  + read('*l') can read lines with embedded zeros.
  + (f()) adjusts the values returned by f to a single result.
  + more general syntax for function definition (e.g., function a.x.y:f()...end)

Please report any problems to lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.

We are specially interested in reports about building Lua in 16-bit and 64-bit
platforms, as well as Windows CE.

Thanks.
--lhf