Comment by RScholar

That's not true, it was published in 2016. I just happen to know because I bought it last week to support the Lua Foundation in the wake of doing some work on Scribunto modules at the Wikimedia projects. They're using Lua 5.1.5, but I figured the author would indicate the feature introduction points and I was correct about that.

I'm only just over halfway through but if I'm being honest, I can't offer much praise for the depth of the material or the treatment it's given: other authoritative volumes I've previously consulted (strangely, Mastering CMake comes to mind first among that cohort) were much more effective at communicating the underlying philosophies of construction and other unobvious practical realities of their subjects. Nevertheless, I do still value having a comprehensive reference at hand to refresh my memory on what's in fact possible when working with a language that I make use of as infrequently as this one.