Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc4) now available

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 14:48, Lorenzo Donati
<lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it> wrote:
> On 28/06/2011 20.55, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Maybe it is worth mentioning the package.loaders-->package.searchers change
> in the "Libraries" section.
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Cheers.
> -- Lorenzo
>
>

Right on.

I'm curious, once it reaches beta, how long can we expect it to remain there?

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