Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.2 now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 08:01 -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Like all minor releases, this is a bug-fix release.
> > Lua 5.4.2 fixes all bugs listed in
> >         http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.4.1
> 
> Linked page section claims that "No bugs have been reported.". So what
> are notable changes for this release?
> -- 
> v <v19930312@gmail.com>

The major change that prompted a new release was the return to a
stackless implementation.

Also, there is one bug fixed, that will still appear in the bugs
page.  (See [1].) There were also several small improvements (e.g., the
variable _PROMPT can use __tostring to produce its value; the hash of a
long string uses all characters).

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-10/msg00092.html

-- Roberto