01-16-2026

1.3.0

Release date: January 16, 2026

• Added scoped assignments in while loops.
• OpenBSD-inspired pledge mechanism to declare and restrict permissions.
• Added string.transcode for converting between encodings.
• Added network.fetch, network.tcp, and network.udp.
• Added debug.parse to generate ASTs from Lus code.
• Added worker library for concurrency.
• Backport Lua 5.5 RC3 and stable fixes:
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/8164d09338d06ecd89bd654e4ff5379f040eba71
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/104b0fc7008b1f6b7d818985fbbad05cd37ee654
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/3d03ae5bd6314f27c8635e06ec363150c2c19062
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/a5522f06d2679b8f18534fd6a9968f7eb539dc31
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/578ae5745cecee56d48795cd4ae1eaf13618715c
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/632a71b24d8661228a726deb5e1698e9638f96d8
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/962f444a755882ecfc24ca7e96ffe193d64ed12d
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/45c7ae5b1b05069543fe1710454c651350bc1c42
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/5cfc725a8b61a6f96c7324f60ac26739315095ba
  • https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/2a7cf4f319fc276f4554a8f6364e6b1ba4eb2ded