diff --git a/CI/before_install.osx.sh b/CI/before_install.osx.sh
index 21038187aa..e05ab5ab32 100755
--- a/CI/before_install.osx.sh
+++ b/CI/before_install.osx.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ ccache --version
 cmake --version
 qmake --version
 
-curl -fSL -R -J https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw-deps/-/raw/main/macos/openmw-deps-20221010.zip -o ~/openmw-deps.zip
+curl -fSL -R -J https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw-deps/-/raw/main/macos/openmw-deps-20221113.zip -o ~/openmw-deps.zip
 unzip -o ~/openmw-deps.zip -d /private/tmp/openmw-deps > /dev/null
 
diff --git a/CI/before_script.msvc.sh b/CI/before_script.msvc.sh
index de89710474..57e31c789d 100644
--- a/CI/before_script.msvc.sh
+++ b/CI/before_script.msvc.sh
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ fi
 BULLET_VER="2.89"
 FFMPEG_VER="4.2.2"
 ICU_VER="70_1"
-LUAJIT_VER="2.1.0-beta3"
+LUAJIT_VER="v2.1.0-beta3-452-g7a0cf5fd"
 LZ4_VER="1.9.2"
 OPENAL_VER="1.20.1"
 QT_VER="5.15.2"
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 706353e0d8..bcb545b75d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -464,13 +464,16 @@ find_package(OpenAL REQUIRED)
 
 option(USE_LUAJIT "Switch Lua/LuaJit (TRUE is highly recommended)" TRUE)
 if(USE_LUAJIT)
-   find_package(LuaJit REQUIRED)
-   set(LUA_INCLUDE_DIR ${LuaJit_INCLUDE_DIR})
-   set(LUA_LIBRARIES ${LuaJit_LIBRARIES})
+    find_package(LuaJit REQUIRED)
+    set(LUA_INCLUDE_DIR ${LuaJit_INCLUDE_DIR})
+    set(LUA_LIBRARIES ${LuaJit_LIBRARIES})
 else(USE_LUAJIT)
-   find_package(Lua REQUIRED)
-   add_compile_definitions(NO_LUAJIT)
+    find_package(Lua REQUIRED)
+    add_compile_definitions(NO_LUAJIT)
 endif(USE_LUAJIT)
+if (NOT WIN32)
+    include(cmake/CheckLuaCustomAllocator.cmake)
+endif()
 
 # C++ library binding to Lua
 set(SOL_INCLUDE_DIR ${OpenMW_SOURCE_DIR}/extern/sol3)
diff --git a/cmake/CheckLuaCustomAllocator.cmake b/cmake/CheckLuaCustomAllocator.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3599714d11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/CheckLuaCustomAllocator.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+set(TMP_ROOT ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/try-compile)
+file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${TMP_ROOT})
+
+file(WRITE ${TMP_ROOT}/checkluacustomallocator.c
+"
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <lua.h>
+
+void* custom_alloc(void* ud, void* ptr, size_t osize, size_t nsize) {
+  if (nsize == 0) {
+    free(ptr);
+    return NULL;
+  } else {
+    return realloc(ptr, nsize);
+  }
+}
+
+int main(void) {
+  return lua_newstate(custom_alloc, NULL) ? 0 : 1;
+}
+")
+
+message(STATUS "Checking if Lua allows to provide a custom allocator")
+
+try_run(RUN_RESULT_VAR COMPILE_RESULT_VAR
+    ${TMP_ROOT}/temp
+    ${TMP_ROOT}/checkluacustomallocator.c
+    CMAKE_FLAGS "-DINCLUDE_DIRECTORIES=${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR}"
+    LINK_LIBRARIES "${LUA_LIBRARIES}"
+    )
+
+if (NOT ${COMPILE_RESULT_VAR})
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Incorrect Lua library: can't compile checkluacustomallocator.c" )
+elseif(NOT ${RUN_RESULT_VAR} EQUAL 0)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Incorrect Lua library: custom allocator not supported (likely LuaJit compiled with LJ_64 but without LJ_GC64)" )
+else()
+    message(STATUS "Lua supports custom allocator")
+endif()
+