LuaRocks Wiki: Release history

Version 2.0.7.1 - 10/Jan/2011 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

Minor bugfix release

Version 2.0.4 - 23/Dec/2010 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 Burgueño.
"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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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 - download

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.