# Release history **Version 3.11.1** - 31/May/2024 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.1-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.11.0** - 13/Mar/2024 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.11.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.10.0** - 27/Feb/2024 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.10.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.10.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.10.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.10.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.9.2** - 08/Dec/2022 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.2.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.2-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.2-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.2-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.9.1** - 01/Jul/2022 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.1.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.1-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.1-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.1-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.9.0** - 17/Apr/2022 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.9.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) * `builtin` build mode now always respects CC, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS * Check that lua.h version matches the desired Lua version * Check that the version of the Lua C library matches the desired Lua version * Fixed deployment of non-wrapped binaries * Fixed crash when `--lua-version` option is malformed * Fixed help message for `--pin` option * Unix: use native methods and don't always rely on $USER to determine user * Windows: use native CLI tooling more * macOS: support .tbd extension when checking for libraries * macOS: add XCode SDK path to search paths * macOS: add best-effort heuristic for library search using Homebrew paths * macOS: avoid quoting issues with LIBFLAG * macOS: deployment target is now 11.0 on macOS 11+ * added DragonFly BSD support * LuaRocks test suite now runs on Lua 5.4 and LuaJIT * Internal dependencies of standalone LuaRocks executable were bumped **Version 3.8.0** - 08/Nov/2021 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.8.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.8.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.8.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.8.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.7.0** - 13/Apr/2021 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.7.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.7.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.7.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.7.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.6.0** - 30/Mar/2021 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.6.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.6.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.6.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.6.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.5.0** - 10/Dec/2020 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.5.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.5.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.5.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.5.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.4.0** - 25/Sep/2020 - [Source tarball for Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.4.0.tar.gz) - [Windows binary (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.4.0-windows-32.zip) - [Windows binary (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.4.0-windows-64.zip) - [Linux binary (x86_64)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.4.0-linux-x86_64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) * `luarocks make` now supports `--only-deps` * `luarocks make` new flag: `--no-install`, which only performs the compilation step * `--deps-only` is now an alias for `--only-deps` (useful in case you always kept getting it wrong, like me!) * `luarocks build` and `luarocks make` now support using `--pin` and `--only-deps` at the same time, to produce a lock file of dependencies in use without installing the main package. * `luarocks show` can now accept a substring of the rock's name, like `list`. * `luarocks config`: when running without system-wide permissions, try storing the config locally by default. Also, if setting both lua_dir and --lua-version explicitly, auto-switch the default Lua version. * `luarocks` with no arguments now prints more info about the location of the Lua interpreter which is being used * `luarocks new_version` now keeps the old URL if the MD5 doesn't change. * `DEPS_DIR` is now accepted as a generic variable for dependency directories (e.g. `luarocks install foo DEPS_DIR=/usr/local`) * Handle quoting of arguments at the application level, for improved Windows support * All-in-one binary bundles `dkjson`, so it runs `luarocks upload` without requiring any additional dependencies. * Tweaks for Terra compatibility * win32: generate proper temp filename * No longer assume that Lua 5.3 is built with compat libraries and bundles `bit32` * `luarocks show`: do not crash when rockspec description is empty * When detecting the location of `lua.h`, check that its version matches the version of Lua being used * Fail gracefully when a third-party tool (wget, etc.) is missing * Fix logic for disabling mirrors that return network errors * Fix detection of Lua path based on arg variable * Fix regression on dependency matching of luarocks.loader **Version 3.3.1** - 07/Feb/2020 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.1.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable (32-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.1-windows-32.zip) - [Windows all-in-one executable (64-bit)](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.1-windows-64.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) * Fix downgrades of rocks containing directories: stop it from creating spurious 0-byte files where directories have been * Fix error message when attempting to copy a file that is missing * Detect OpenBSD-specific dependency paths **Version 3.3.0** - 28/Jan/2020 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.0.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.0-windows-32.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.2.1** - 05/Sep/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.2.1.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.2.1-windows-32.zip) - [other files](http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) **Version 3.2.0** - 28/Aug/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.2.0.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.2.0-windows-32.zip) - [other files](https://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases) * Bugfix: luarocks path does not change the order of pre-existing path items when prepending or appending to path variables * Bugfix: fix directory detection on the Mac * When building with --force-config, LuaRocks now never uses the "project" directory, but only the forced configuration * Lua libdir is now only checked for commands/platforms that really need to link Lua explicitly * LuaJIT is now detected dynamically * RaptorJIT is now detected as a LuaJIT variant * Improvements in Lua autodetection at runtime * luarocks new_version: new option --dir * luarocks which: report modules found via package.path and package.cpath as well * install.bat: Improved detection for Visual Studio 2017 and higher * Bundled LuaSec in all-in-one binary bumped to version 0.8.1 **Version 3.1.3** - 06/Jun/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.3.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.3-windows-32.zip) **Version 3.1.2** - 07/May/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.2.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.2-windows-32.zip) **Version 3.1.1** - 06/May/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.1.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.1-windows-32.zip) **Version 3.1.0** - 30/Apr/2019 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.0.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.1.0-windows-32.zip) * config: add git-like modes for setting and inspecting configuration * make: run rockspec patches on first `luarocks make` run and use a lockfile to avoid double patching * persist selected Lua version when setting `luarocks config lua_version 5.x` * new flag --global for overriding local_by_default = true * do not complain if home cache cannot be created (use temp dir instead) * caching improvements for increased performance * project-based workflow: if ./.luarocks/config-5.x.lua exists, assume Lua 5.x * install, pack, build, make: new flags --sign and --verify (using GPG) * install: new flag --no-doc * Improve Lua paths auto-detection * Various bugfixes **Version 3.0.4** - 30/Oct/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.4.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.4-windows-32.zip) * Fork-free platform detection at startup * Improved detection of the default rockspec in commands such as `luarocks test` * Various minor bugfixes **Version 3.0.3** - 15/Sep/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.3.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.3-windows-32.zip) * Minor bugfixes **Version 3.0.2** - 07/Sep/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.2.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.2-windows-32.zip) * Improvements in luarocks init, new --reset flag * write_rockspec: --lua-version renamed to --lua-versions * Improved behavior in module autodetection * Bugfixes in luarocks show * Fix upgrade/downgrade when a single rock has clashing module filenames * Fix for autodetected external dependencies with non-alphabetic characters **Version 3.0.1** - 14/Aug/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.1.tar.gz) - [Windows all-in-one executable](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.1-windows-32.zip) * Numerous bugfixes * Store Lua location in config file, so that a user can run `luarocks init --lua-dir=/my/lua/location` and have that location remain active for that project * Various improvements to the Unix makefile, including $(DESTDIR) support and an uninstall rule * Autodetect FreeBSD-style include paths (/usr/include/lua5x/) **Version 3.0.0** - 25/Jul/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.0.tar.gz) - [Windows batch installer](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.0.0-win32.zip) * New rockspec format * New commands, including `luarocks init` for per-project workflows * New flags, including `--lua-dir` and `--lua-version` for using multiple Lua installs with a single LuaRocks * New build system, gearing towards a new distribution model * General improvements, including namespaces * User-visible changes, including some breaking changes * Internal changes **Version 2.4.4** - 12/Mar/2018 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.4.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.4-win32.zip) * Do not halt a package deletion process when a file from the package is missing * Updated bundled binaries in Windows package: Lua 5.1.5, Wget 1.19.4, 7zip 18.01 * Updated Windows installer to better handle gcc toolchains * Fix detection of directories on Windows * Fixes .def generation on Windows **Version 2.4.3** - 12/Sep/2017 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.3.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.3-win32.zip) * Fixed display of pathnames in `luarocks show` * Improved check for write permissions when installing * Plus assorted bugfixes and improvements **Version 2.4.2** - 30/Nov/2016 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.2-win32.zip) * Fixed conflict resolution on deploy/delete * Improved dependency check messages * Performance improvements when removing packages * Support user-defined `platforms` array in config file * Improvements in Lua interpreter version detection in Unix configure script * Relaxed Lua version detection to improve support for alternative implementations (e.g. Ravi) * Plus assorted bugfixes and improvements **Version 2.4.1** - 06/Oct/2016 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.1-win32.zip) * Avoid coroutine use in luarocks.loader * Fix upgrade issues for very old versions **Version 2.4.0** - 08/Sep/2016 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.4.0-win32.zip) * New test suite based on Busted; runs on Linux, OSX and Windows * git+ssh:// fetch protocol * Improved behavior preserving permissions * Improved listing of dependencies on installation * Improved behavior of argument handling in `pack` * MSYS and Haiku platform detection * Feature-based detection of internal bit32 and utf8 modules * Internal reorganization of luarocks.fs code * `remove` option --force=fast renamed to --force-fast * Plus assorted bugfixes and cleanups **Version 2.3.0** - 09/Jan/2016 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.3.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.3.0-win32.zip) * Windows: major redesign of the install tree structure * Windows: Auto setup of MSVC environments * Improve error messages when tools are not installed * CMake: generate 64-bit builds when appropriate * Improve check of location of config files * MacOSX: set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET using env * Remove --extensions flag; use rockspec_format instead * New `luarocks config` command to query configuration * Improved UI for messages when external deps are missing * Unix: Robustness improvement in configure script * Plus tweaks and bugfixes. See the changelog for details. **Version 2.2.2** - 24/Apr/2015 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.2-win32.zip) * `luarocks build --only-deps` and `luarocks install --only-deps` for installing dependencies only * Mercurial support * Improved command-line argument parser, now validates arguments (it previously ignored unrecognized arguments) and accepts both `--flag=option` and `--flag option` in flags that take arguments. * For consistency with `luarocks show`, `luarocks doc --homepage` is now `luarocks doc --home` * Improvements to CMake build backend * Improved Makefiles for handling simultaneous bootstrapped installations * Various bugfixes **Version 2.2.1** - 17/Mar/2015 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.1-win32.zip) * Improved compatibility with Lua 5.3 * `luarocks list --outdated` for listing modules with available upgrades * Assorted bugfixes **Version 2.2.0** - 15/Aug/2014 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.2.0-win32.zip) * MoonRocks is the new default repository: http://rocks.moonscript.org - Rocks don't need to be sent to the LuaRocks mailing list anymore, you can upload them directly at the website or using... * ...`luarocks upload` command for uploading rocks to MoonRocks via the command-line * Preliminary support for Lua 5.3 * No longer uses the module() function, for Lua 5.2 installations built without Lua 5.1 compatibility * --branch flag for `luarocks build` and `luarocks make` * various improvements in `luarocks doc` command * "git+http" transport for source.url **Version 2.1.2** - 10/Jan/2014 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.2-win32.zip) * major improvements in the Windows install.bat script. Now installs by default on standard Windows locations, while the old self-contained all-under-one-dir installation is still supported through an option flag. The documentation at luarocks.org didn't catch up with it yet, so please refer to "install /?" for instructions. * a new command, "luarocks doc " that tries to find any installed documentation. Due to the lack of documentation standards for Lua, this uses a few heuristics. Feedback on the feature is appreciated. * a rocks_provided configuration entry in which you can preload dependencies that are already fulfulled in your system; a few defaults are included (bit32 is auto-provided in Lua 5.2; luabitop is auto-provided in LuaJIT) * generated script wrappers are now more robust * Graceful handling of permission errors on Windows * Minor performance improvements * Support for "named trees", so you can label your rocks trees and use flags such as --tree=system or --tree=user instead of the full path * "luarocks" with no arguments presents more useful diagnostics * Improved Lua detection in Unix installer * plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.1.1** - 29/Oct/2013 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.1-win32.zip) * Remote manifests are now compressed and locally cached, making commands faster * New command "write_rockspec" which generates rockspec file templates * detection of multiarch directories on Linux * environment and performance improvements on Windows * New --force=fast option for 'luarocks remove' * New --local-tree flag for 'luarocks-admin make-manifest' * Improved error checking * plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.1.0** - 09/Aug/2013 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.1.0-win32.zip) * accesses manifest-{5.1,5.2} in remote servers to provide properly filtered results for Lua 5.1 or 5.2 * Remove old versions when installing a new one and old versions are no longer needed to honor dependencies. * 'make bootstrap' is now an advertised option for installing LuaRocks itself as a rock on Unix systems * 'luarocks purge --old-versions' for cleaning up a local tree * --keep flag to produce the old behavior of keeping old versions around (can be made permanent setting keep_old_versions=true in the config file) * security config options 'accepted_build_types' and 'hooks_enabled' * 'lua_version' is now available as a global for your config.lua * new flags --lr-path, --lr-cpath, --lr-bin for 'luarocks path' for use in scripts * friendlier error messages * plus bugfixes **Version 2.0.13** - 16/Apr/2013 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.13.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.13-win32.zip) * Support for Lua 5.2 is no longer marked as experimental * Support for installing two instances of LuaRocks, for Lua 5.1 and 5.2, in parallel * Improvements for the 'builtin' build mode on Windows * rclauncher on Windows does not rely on a precompiled object anymore * Improvements for the Windows installer, including optional registry entries for context-menu operations * Improvements in 'luarocks new_version` command for autogenerating updated rockspecs * 'luarocks remove' command accepts rock and rockspec filenames **Version 2.0.12** - 05/Nov/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.12.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.12-win32.zip) * "Dependencies mode" selection to configure how to work with multiple local trees * New command "purge" that erases a local tree * --porcelain flag for "list" and "search" * More consistent user-agent reporting * Code cleanups, removal of dead code * Fixes regressions on Mac and Windows **Version 2.0.11** - 21/Sep/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.11.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.11-win32.zip) * Work around LuaSocket crash when given proxy URLs without the scheme part * Save manifest file in a single fs operation to make it more atomic * Fix tree loading order on luarocks.loader with multiple trees * Fix detection of write permissions * Improve dependency detection using configurable patterns, now a file like "libfoo.so.1" satisfies "libfoo.so" * --bin flag for "luarocks path" command, exports $PATH * Support for mirrors in the rocks_servers list, default list of mirrors included * Avoid using Lua modules internally on Windows, to avoid file system locking * Add NetBSD support * Rename luarocks.rep to luarocks.repos * Fail gracefully on the absence of cmake, on cmake build mode * New command "lint", to check the syntax of a rockspec * Fix builtin build mode on Mac OSX < 10.5 * Improve configure tests for Debian-based platforms **Version 2.0.10** - 12/Jul/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.10.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.10-win32.zip) * Fix fetching Git tags/branches * Fix strictness issue with parameter of io.open * Builtin mode sets rpath when compiling on Unix * Use full path in $(LUA) when configured with --with-lua * Cleanup of .svn dir in svn-based rocks * Improvement for 'make bootstrap' **Version 2.0.9** - 31/May/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.9.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.9-win32.zip) * Experimental support for Lua 5.2 (auto-detection and explicit --lua-version flag in configure) * Solaris support and BSD fixes * --nodeps flag for forced installation without dependencies * "new_version" command to streamline writing of updated rockspecs * Improved handling of LUAROCKS_SYSCONFIG variable * Clickable URLs in descriptions in rocks repo index.html * Nicer-looking persisted tables * Assorted bugfixes **Version 2.0.8** - 29/Feb/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.8.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.8-win32.zip) * Fix in CMake build backend * Fix handling error condition of --pack-binary-rock * Fixes for Windows .bat installer * Improved arch detection when packing binary rocks * Workaround LuaPosix 5.1.15 problem with chmod() * Proper error messages when config files are invalid * Avoid checking permissions when it's not necessary * Fix behavior of 'builtin' rocks which install init.lua scripts * git+file:// pseudoprotocol for local Git repos * New binaries from GnuWin32 shipped in Win32 zip * Nicer-looking help **Version 2.0.7.1** - 10/Jan/2012 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.7.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.7.1-win32.zip) * Fix installation of files in build operation * Deprecate --to and --from, use --server and --tree instead * Improved documentation, thanks to LDoc **Version 2.0.7** - 10/Dec/2011 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.7.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.7-win32.zip) * Quieter git checkout * --only-sources flag to restrict download of sources from a single domain * Copy entries to bin/ with proper permissions * Fix --pack-binary-rock and add support for it in "luarocks make" as well * Isolate references to "5.1" to luarocks.cfg module * More logical names for flags: --tree, --server * Improved documentation **Version 2.0.6** - 04/Oct/2011 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.6.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.6-win32.zip) * Fixes for rockspecs missing 'description' or the contents of 'source.url' * Escape fixes for LuaJIT/Metalua * Support for building a rock without installing it * Site-local configuration is now at luarocks.site_config * Support for Mercurial * Flag for experimental extensions * Plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.0.5** - 17/Aug/2011 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.5.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.5-win32.zip) * External commands are overridable through variables or config.lua * No longer uses print() - output goes to stdout, errors to stderr * Handle redirects between http (LuaSocket) and https (LuaSec) * Avoid relying on the $PWD variable * Code cleanups **Version 2.0.4.1** - 17/Jan/2011 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.4.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.4.1-win32.zip) * Minor bugfix release **Version 2.0.4** - 23/Dec/2010 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.4.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.4-win32.zip) * Command "remove" for luarocks-admin * Check for write permissions in repository and suggest --local * Remove .git from source tree when downloading from Git * Display of external dependencies in index.html * OpenBSD support * More thorough search for external libraries * Normalize paths to fix behavior when LFS is used under Windows * Add HTTPS support using LuaSec when using LuaSocket, for consistency * Better propagation of error messages * Stable sort of persisted files such as manifests * Plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.0.3** - 14/Sep/2010 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.3.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.3-win32.zip) * Check for permissions and warn user instead of just installing in local tree * --local flag for operations on the local tree * -fPIC is always set in CFLAGS exported to makefiles * respect permissions when copying files in Unix systems * display license after build/installation * svn:// protocol for scm rockspecs * "luarocks list" and "luarocks search" are now case-insensitive * "luarocks-admin add" supports adding multiple files at once * "luarocks-admin add" supports rsync for download and upload and scp for upload * new command: "luarocks show" displays information about an installed rock * new command: "luarocks path" to make it easy to export Lua env variables * plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.0.2** - 01/Apr/2010 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.2-win32.zip) * use LuaSocket if available for downloading files * use LuaZip if available for unzipping files * MinGW support in builtin build backend * updated installation files for Windows, including a LuaForWindows-compatible package **Version 2.0.1** - 27/Oct/2009 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.1-win32.zip) * luarocks.cfg is no longer edited during installation; a separate site-local luarocks.config module is created. * robustness fixes and improvements for luarocks.add * cleanup of configure options and references to the old LuaForge URLs * install LuaRocks as a rock * plus assorted bugfixes **Version 2.0** - 17/Oct/2009 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0-win32.zip) * module files are now deployed to standard Lua-style paths * new package loader module luarocks.loader, superseding the require()-override module luarocks.require * new abstraction system for file system operations: the OS-specific back-ends for luarocks.fs were split between native-Lua and tool-based implementations * new format for local manifest * new command for luarocks: "download", to fetch .rock and .rockspec files * new commands for luarocks-admin: "add", to upload rocks to a repository, and "refresh_cache", to refresh the cache used by the "add" command * plus a number of cleanups and bugfixes **Version 1.0.1** - 13/Mar/2009 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-1.0.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-1.0.1-win32.zip) * Improve portability in usage of Unix tools * Allow use of local rocks servers in the --from flag * Improve detection of external libraries on Mac OSX * Fix build of the 'builtin' backend under Windows * Support for the 'md5' binary as a MD5 checker **Version 1.0** - 01/Sep/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-1.0.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-1.0-win32.zip) * Add support for post-install hooks * Path helper scripts for binaries on Windows systems. * Git support, contributed by Thomas Harning. * Improve shell compatibility for different Unix systems. * Add the @ operator for no-upgrade dependencies. * Add check for rockspec version format. * Generate index.html when building a manifest for a repository. * Plus assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.6** - 30/Jun/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.6.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.6-win32.zip) * Check external deps on binary installs. Allow rockspecs to specify supported platforms. Support platform-agnostic specification of external deps files. Allow overriding external deps subdirs. * Structured build systems in subdirectories. * Smarter check to decide if a rock is pure Lua or not, also checking bin/ * Restructuring of fs code. * Modularized fetch code to support multiple SCMs. * Added specific support for 'doc' directory in rockspecs. Auto-install files in 'lua' in builtin builds. * Support for Surround SCM, contributed by Ignacio BurgueƱo. * "module" build type renamed to "builtin"; "cvs_tag" and "cvs_module" renamed to "tag" and "module". Old names still supported for compatibility for now, to be cleaned up by 1.0. * Plus many bugfixes. **Version 0.5.2** - 13/May/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5.2-win32.zip) * Fixes problems with removal of read-only files on Windows * Fixes issues with external libraries on the 'module' build type on Windows * Fixes the --only-from flag * Renames the luarocks.config module to luarocks.cfg avoiding conflict's with the user configuration file config.lua **Version 0.5.1** - 25/Apr/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5.1-win32.zip) * Added function get_rock_from_module in luarocks.require, allowing apps to inspect which rock they're getting modules from. * Added variables LUA, LIB_EXTENSION and OBJ_EXTENSION, now available for rockspec authors. * Assorted bugfixes, especially for the Windows package. * Build system improvements: add DESTDIR variable to makefile to make things easier for distros packaging LuaRocks. **Version 0.5** - 03/Apr/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.5-win32.zip) * New flags in the ./configure on Unix (see configure --help) and install.bat on Windows (see install.bat /?) * Support for multiple local repositories. By extension, LuaRocks features more intuitive configuration defaults (it installs rocks to $PREFIX/lib/luarocks if you have the permission, and to $HOME/.luarocks if you don't). * Flags --from=_server_, --only-from=_server_ and --to=_tree_, to allow specifying exactly where to get rocks from and where to install them to. * The manifest file now stores dependency info -- luarocks.require no longer scans rockspec files. * 'unpack' command allows unpacking binary and pure-Lua rocks, for inspecting. * Plus assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.4.3** - 03/Mar/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.3.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.3-win32.zip) * The MD5 check feature added in 0.4.2 can now use openssl instead of md5sum (making LuaRocks friendlier to OSX). * Added a license file in the tarball (making LuaRocks friendlier to Debian). * Plus assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.4.2** - 09/Feb/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.2-win32.zip) * Support .lua files directly in the URL field. * Perform check of MD5 checksum in sources. * Accept plain strings in all fields of the source table of the "module" build type. * Bugfixes. **Version 0.4.1** - 25/Jan/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.1-win32.zip) * New configure/install.bat flags for setting scripts dir and local repository dir. * "unpack" command now supports rockspec files as well. * Complete code documentation. * Many assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.4** - 18/Jan/2008 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.4-win32.zip) * Adds the "unpack" command for debugging rocks (.src.rock only at this point). * Support curl as an alternative downloader for OSX, removing the dependency on wget. * Support for installing non-Lua entries in bin/ dirs. * Support for specifying libdirs, incdirs, libraries and defines in "module"-type builds. * x86_64 support, by Brian Hetro. * FreeBSD support, by Matthew M. Burke. * Performance improvements. * Many assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.3.2** - 21/Dec/2007 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3.2.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3.2-win32.zip) * Support for patching and inclusion of extra files (such as Makefiles) through a rockspec. * Support "platforms" overrides table for dependencies, external dependencies and source URLs. * Many assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.3.1** - 18/Dec/2007 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3.1.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3.1-win32.zip) * Improved search: results now feature separate lists for source and binary rocks. * Windows support for the "module" build type (using Visual Studio). * Many assorted bugfixes. **Version 0.3** - 04/Dec/2007 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3.tar.gz) - [Windows](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.3-win32.zip) * Includes Windows package. * Adds the "module" build type. * Performance improvements. **Version 0.2** - 23/Oct/2007 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.2.tar.gz) * Bugfixes and improvements to build infrastructure. * Adds the LuaRocks "remove" command. **Version 0.1** - 09/Aug/2007 - [All Unix](http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-0.1.tar.gz) * Initial release.