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Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc4) is now available at
	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.2.0-beta-rc4.tar.gz

MD5	cb1b458735e841ff6325f8a5cb122e01  -
SHA1	b2ed6b10fea34c724405fe19539c21a0b366b69d  -

This is a beta version. Some details may change in the final version.

The main changes from rc3 to rc4 are:
	- ctype (removed wrong 'setlocale')
	- package.loaders renamed to package.searchers
	- ('string').x == nil (no more errors)

The main changes since Lua 5.1 are listed in
	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes

The complete diffs are available at
	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.2.0-beta-rc3-beta-rc4.txt

A test suite is available at
	http://www.lua.org/tests/5.2/

This release candidate will be the beta version if no glitches are found
in the next 10 days or so. We thank everyone for their feedback till now.

All feedback welcome. Thanks.
--lhf