Issues

• Tables are never freed: a long-lived state grows ~1.6 MB per 1,000-row render

  tv-labs/lua#429 · Filter by author shinyobjectz opened on Oct 1, 2026

• max_string_bytes is not enforced by table.concat, string.gsub, string.format, string.pack or os.date

  tv-labs/lua#425 · Filter by author MrYawe opened on Sep 30, 2026

• Implementing get/setlocal, get/sethook, upvalue

  tv-labs/lua#423 · Filter by author syormon opened on Sep 8, 2026

• runtime: interactive-mode fingerprint re-check is ~half the remaining cost of Lua.new/1

  tv-labs/lua#415 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• pattern: 'invalid capture index %N in replacement string' uses Lua 5.4 wording

  tv-labs/lua#413 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• vm: dispatcher compiled-call prologue is duplicated 9x — extract a single helper

  tv-labs/lua#414 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• compiler: _ENV upvalue is handed to every nested function (PUC only when free names are read)

  tv-labs/lua#412 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• vm: :max_instructions under-counts metamethod work behind executor bridges

  tv-labs/lua#411 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• lexer: pre-existing PUC 5.3 divergences — bare CR line counting, \ddd escapes > 255

  tv-labs/lua#410 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• stdlib: print/io of a non-UTF-8 binary raises where PUC-Lua writes raw bytes

  tv-labs/lua#409 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• Decoded tables cannot round-trip through set!/encode! (FunctionClauseError on {key, value} pairs)

  tv-labs/lua#408 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• length operator on nil/boolean returns 0 instead of raising

  tv-labs/lua#404 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 27, 2026

• Expose a public way to recover a structured error map from a rendered runtime-error string

  tv-labs/lua#397 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jul 17, 2026

• Ergonomic encode/decode for deflua (Lua.Encoder protocol + auto-marshalling)

  tv-labs/lua#341 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Jun 9, 2026 · 1.1.0

• Make os operations safe by default with VFS

  tv-labs/lua#297 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on May 31, 2026 · 1.1.0

• Perf regression CI — lock parity once reached

  kind:perf
  tv-labs/lua#269 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on May 28, 2026 · 1.1.0

• Perf profiling — fprof and eflambe on hot paths

  kind:perf
  tv-labs/lua#268 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on May 28, 2026 · 1.1.0

• Perf baseline and Luerl gap analysis

  kind:perf
  tv-labs/lua#267 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on May 28, 2026 · 1.0.0

• Deepcast empty table to empty list

  tv-labs/lua#83 · Filter by author anjou-low opened on May 19, 2025
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• Improve support and documentation for working with external libraries

  tv-labs/lua#37 · Filter by author davydog187 opened on Aug 23, 2024

• Add support to hook into require

  tv-labs/lua#34 · Filter by author Papipo opened on Aug 7, 2024
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