irs</CODE> and <CODE>__ipairs</CODE>
<LI> new option 'isrunning' for <CODE>collectgarbage</CODE> and <CODE>lua_gc</CODE>
<LI> frontier patterns
<LI> <CODE>\0</CODE> in patterns
<LI> new option <CODE>*L</CODE> for <CODE>io.read</CODE>
<LI> options for <CODE>io.lines</CODE>
<LI> <CODE>debug.getlocal</CODE> can access function varargs
</UL>

<H3>C API</H3>
<UL>
<LI> main thread predefined in the registry
<LI> new functions
<CODE>lua_absindex</CODE>,
<CODE>lua_arith</CODE>,
<CODE>lua_compare</CODE>,
<CODE>lua_c