On 23/05/22 14:01, João Valverde wrote:
With Wireshark 4.0 there is an opportunity to make more sweeping
changes. One of those is moving to Lua 5.3 or 5.4 (and only one of
those).
Lua 5.3 has some important enhancements (bit ops, 64 bit integers and
a basic utf-8 library).
Lua 5.4 introduces a new garbage collector.
New Lua minor versions are not 100% backward-compatible so some amount
of breakage for existing Lua code is to be expected when moving from
Wireshark 3.6 to 4.0, if this move goes ahead.
Note: Code using lua_bitop will have to be converted to native Lua
bitwise operators. There is no compatibility provided for that.
Reference for each Lua release: https://www.lua.org/versions.html
This message is intended to solicit feedback from the community about
that change, whether it should happen and which Lua version is
preferred for Wireshark 4.0 (between 5.3 and 5.4).
Thanks.
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