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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Lua 5.5 support","articleBody":"I haven't seen any issues open that reported on Lua 5.5, so it's possible you're not aware.\n\n[Lua 5.5.0 was released on 22 Dec 2025](https://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.5). Its [main new features](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes) are declarations for global variables, named vararg tables, more compact arrays, and major garbage collections done incrementally.\n\n### Main changes\n\n+ declarations for global variables\n+ named vararg tables\n+ for-loop variables are read only\n+ floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly.\n+ more levels for constructors\n+ table.create\n+ utf8.offset returns also final position of character\n+ external strings (that use memory not managed by Lua)\n+ new functions luaL_openselectedlibs and luaL_makeseed\n+ major garbage collections done incrementally\n+ more compact arrays (large arrays use about 60% less memory)\n+ lua.c loads 'readline' dynamically\n+ static (fixed) binaries (when loading a binary chunk in memory, Lua can reuse its original memory in some of the internal structures)\n+ dump and undump reuse all strings\n+ auxiliary buffer reuses buffer when it creates final string","author":{"url":"https://github.com/God-damnit-all","@type":"Person","name":"God-damnit-all"},"datePublished":"2026-01-20T21:14:31.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/1676/TypeScriptToLua/issues/1676"}