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[News Bot]

From: Mike Pall

This is the fifth beta release of LuaJIT 2.0.0.

This release accumulates many fixes of the past months and has a few
performance enhancements. Please check the changelog for more details.

Here is a link to the home page:
  http://luajit.org/luajit.html

A direct link to the download page:
  http://luajit.org/download.html

And a link to the changelog:
  http://luajit.org/changes.html

What is LuaJIT?
---------------

LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time (JIT) Compiler for Lua. It's fully
compatible with standard Lua 5.1 and can significantly boost the
performance of your Lua programs.

LuaJIT is open source software, released under the MIT/X license.
LuaJIT builds out-of-the-box on most x86 or x64 operating systems
(Linux, Windows, OSX etc.).

This is a BETA TEST release -- the current status and the list of
known issues are shown here: http://luajit.org/status.html
Please report any problems you may find with this release. Thank you!

What's next:
------------

I'll now start working on a port of LuaJIT to PowerPC. This work
is sponsored by a corporate sponsor who wishes to remain anonymous.
In the first phase I'll port the hand-optimized LuaJIT interpreter
to the FreeScale e500v2 cores. You can follow the progress in the
git repository.

Please note that the e500v2 has a different FPU than most other
PowerPC CPUs. This port will _not_ run on other PPC-based machines
(e.g. game consoles). A port of the JIT compiler and/or a port to
other PowerPC CPUs may follow later.

--Mike

[News Bot]

From: François Perrad

I am pleased to announce the first release of lua-CodeGen.

lua-CodeGen is a "safe" template engine.

lua-CodeGen enforces a strict Model-View separation.

lua-CodeGen allows to split template in small chunk,
and encourages the reuse of them by inheritance.

lua-CodeGen is not dedicated to HTML,
it could generate any kind of textual code.

The homepage is at http://fperrad.github.com/lua-CodeGen.

Patch, comment, etc are welcome.

Thanks.

François.

[News Bot]

From: Linus Sjögren

lao is a module that provides Lua bindings to libao, a library by
xiph.org for simple audio output.

This is the first public release, and as such, there may be some minor
issues, like small memory leaks and/or segfaults.
Any tips/patches are appreciated.

http://xiph.org/ao/ - xiph.orgs page on libao
http://github.com/thelinx/lao/ - the lao project page
http://thelinx.github.com/lao/ - documentation
http://github.com/TheLinx/lao/raw/luarocks/ao-1.0.0-1.rockspec -
LuaRock (has been submitted for inclusion)

I hope this is useful to someone!