- configure.ac
- Use minimum version 5.2 for Lua
- Add lua 5.5, it was released in dec 2025
- Syntax improvements
- GHA CI
- Remove 'default' Lua version, it is confusing.
Just select the version explicitly.
- Add Lua 5.4 test, we need to test all supported versions 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4
Lua 5.5 is not available on Ubuntu yet.
- Lua documentation Doc/Manual/Lua.html
- Update version to 5.2
- Remove mention to older SWIG version,
whom wishes to go to the very old history can look on CHANGES.
- Add references on missing operators in Lua.
- _ENV exist from Lua 5.2.
- Remove old compatibility code from Lib/lua/luarun.swg.
- Remove LUA_VERSION_NUM from Lua C wrapping code.
It was used for old Lua 5.0 and Lua 5.1.
- Remove _VERSION from Lua tests.
Note: _VERSION remains a keyword and developers may use it in interface files!
- Remove Example/lua/import.lua and Examples/test-suite/lua/import.lua
as they are not used or needed any longer.
- Remove old Lua import.
- Add Examples/test-suite/lua/helpers.lua
- include it in all tests in test-suite.
- Add catch "undefined" global variables enable function.
- Add import_to_globs function.
To add module functions, variables and classes to global scope.
- Remove the -squash-bases option as it is broken
The der.new_func from the example
in the document, "29.3.18.3 Inheritance",
pass from base object to derived object
regardless of using the flag or not.
- Remove -no-old-metatable-bindings as it is deprecated in the last 12 years
Signed-off-by: Erez Geva <ErezGeva2@gmail.com>
Erez Geva