diff --git a/stubs/lupa/METADATA.toml b/stubs/lupa/METADATA.toml
index 7867a8a93236..9ab84dd92ab1 100644
--- a/stubs/lupa/METADATA.toml
+++ b/stubs/lupa/METADATA.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version = "2.6.*"
+version = "2.8.*"
 upstream-repository = "https://github.com/scoder/lupa"
diff --git a/stubs/lupa/lupa/__init__.pyi b/stubs/lupa/lupa/__init__.pyi
index d14ef918216c..6eb98c022432 100644
--- a/stubs/lupa/lupa/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stubs/lupa/lupa/__init__.pyi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from .lua54 import *
+from .lua55 import *
 
 __all__ = [
-    # from lua54 (newest lib)
+    # from lua55 (newest lib)
     "LUA_VERSION",
     "LUA_MAXINTEGER",
     "LUA_MININTEGER",
diff --git a/stubs/lupa/lupa/lua55.pyi b/stubs/lupa/lupa/lua55.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7604148b370b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stubs/lupa/lupa/lua55.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+from _typeshed import MaybeNone
+from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable
+from typing import Any, Final, Generic, TypeAlias, TypeVar, type_check_only
+from typing_extensions import Self, disjoint_base
+
+__all__ = [
+    "LUA_VERSION",
+    "LUA_MAXINTEGER",
+    "LUA_MININTEGER",
+    "LuaRuntime",
+    "LuaError",
+    "LuaSyntaxError",
+    "LuaMemoryError",
+    "as_itemgetter",
+    "as_attrgetter",
+    "lua_type",
+    "unpacks_lua_table",
+    "unpacks_lua_table_method",
+]
+
+LUA_MAXINTEGER: Final[int]
+LUA_MININTEGER: Final[int]
+LUA_VERSION: Final[tuple[int, int]]
+
+# cyfunction object
+as_attrgetter: Callable[[object], object]
+as_itemgetter: Callable[[object], object]
+
+# cyfunction object
+lua_type: Callable[[object], str | MaybeNone]
+
+# cyfunction object as decorator
+unpacks_lua_table: Callable[[Callable[..., Any]], Callable[..., Any]]
+unpacks_lua_table_method: Callable[[Callable[..., Any]], Callable[..., Any]]
+
+# inner classes
+
+@type_check_only
+class _LuaTable:
+    def keys(self) -> Iterable[_LuaKey]: ...
+    def values(self) -> Iterable[_LuaObject]: ...
+    def items(self) -> Iterable[tuple[_LuaKey, _LuaObject]]: ...
+    def __getitem__(self, key: _LuaKey) -> _LuaObject: ...
+    def __setitem__(self, key: _LuaKey, value: _LuaObject) -> None: ...
+    def __delitem__(self, key: _LuaKey) -> None: ...
+
+# A Lua object can be a table or a primitive type. Because we have no way of
+# knowing the actual type across languages, we simply use an Any for a Lua
+# object.
+
+# A previous version of this code had
+#   _LuaObject: TypeAlias = _LuaTable | int | str | float | bool | None
+# but that causes false type failures when running, e.g., `lua.globals()['foo']['bar']`
+# (because `lua.globals()['foo']` is not known to be a nested table
+_LuaKey: TypeAlias = str | int
+_LuaObject: TypeAlias = Any
+
+@type_check_only
+class _LuaNoGC: ...
+
+# classes
+
+_bint = TypeVar("_bint", bool, int)
+
+@disjoint_base
+class FastRLock(Generic[_bint]):
+    # @classmethod
+    # def __init__(cls, /, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None: ...
+    def acquire(self, blocking: _bint = ...) -> _bint: ...
+    def release(self) -> None: ...
+    def __enter__(self) -> _bint: ...
+    def __exit__(self, t: object, v: object, tb: object) -> None: ...
+
+class LuaError(Exception): ...
+class LuaSyntaxError(LuaError): ...
+class LuaMemoryError(LuaError, MemoryError): ...
+
+@disjoint_base
+class LuaRuntime:
+    lua_implementation: Final[str]
+    lua_version: Final[tuple[int, int]]
+
+    def __new__(cls, /, unpack_returned_tuples: bool) -> Self: ...
+    # def add_pending_unref(self, ref: int) -> None: ...
+    # def clean_up_pending_unrefs(self) -> int: ...
+    def get_max_memory(self, total: bool = False) -> int | MaybeNone: ...
+    def get_memory_used(self, total: bool = False) -> int | MaybeNone: ...
+    # def reraise_on_exceptions(self) -> int: ...
+    # def store_raised_exception(self, L: object, lua_error_msg: str) -> None: ...  # unannotated
+    def eval(self, lua_code: str, *args: Any, name: str | None = None, mode: str | None = None) -> object: ...
+    def execute(self, lua_code: str, *args: Any, name: str | None = None, mode: str | None = None) -> object: ...
+    def compile(self, lua_code: str, name: str | None = None, mode: str | None = None) -> Callable[..., object]: ...
+    def require(self, modulename: str) -> object: ...
+    def globals(self) -> _LuaTable: ...
+    def table(self, *items: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> _LuaTable: ...
+    def table_from(self, *args: Any, recursive: bool = False) -> _LuaTable: ...
+    def nogc(self) -> _LuaNoGC: ...
+    def gccollect(self) -> None: ...
+    def set_max_memory(self, max_memory: int, total: bool = False) -> None: ...
+    def set_overflow_handler(self, overflow_handler: Callable[..., None]) -> None: ...
+    # def register_py_object(self, cname: str, pyname: str, obj: object) -> int: ...
+    # def init_python_lib(self, register_eval: bool, register_builtins: bool) -> int: ...