[ANN] std.normalize v5.1 released

Normalized Lua Functions

I am happy to announce release 5.1 of std.normalize.

std.normalize's home page is at https://lua-stdlib.github.io/normalize

Noteworthy changes in release 5.1 (2026-10-29) [stable]

New features

• New bit32 library, with every function of the bit32 of Lua 5.2
  (arshift, band, bnot, bor, btest, bxor, extract,
  lrotate, lshift, replace, rrotate and rshift), for every
  host, so that {'bit32.band'} imports it for a library that needs
  bitwise operations, without a rock or a different file for each Lua.
  All of its functions work on unsigned 32-bit integers, and wrap what
  is out of range modulo 2^32. In a Lua that has bit32 it is that,
  and otherwise it is made of the operators of Lua 5.3 and later, the
  bit library of LuaJIT, or else plain arithmetic, whichever is first
  to give the same results. When typecheck is installed, each of them
  checks its arguments, as the other functions do.

Install it with LuaRocks, using:

luarocks install std.normalize 5.1