diff --git a/src/if_lua.c b/src/if_lua.c
index 6e33734..9400e3a 100644
--- a/src/if_lua.c
+++ b/src/if_lua.c
@@ -562,6 +562,10 @@
 	    tv->v_type = VAR_SPECIAL;
 	    tv->vval.v_number = (varnumber_T) lua_toboolean(L, pos);
 	    break;
+	case LUA_TNIL:
+	    tv->v_type = VAR_SPECIAL;
+	    tv->vval.v_number = VVAL_NULL;
+	    break;
 	case LUA_TSTRING:
 	    tv->v_type = VAR_STRING;
 	    tv->vval.v_string = vim_strsave((char_u *) lua_tostring(L, pos));
diff --git a/src/testdir/test_lua.vim b/src/testdir/test_lua.vim
index e021a2f..1a5c74f 100644
--- a/src/testdir/test_lua.vim
+++ b/src/testdir/test_lua.vim
@@ -298,17 +298,18 @@
   lua l:add('abc')
   lua l:add(true)
   lua l:add(false)
+  lua l:add(nil)
   lua l:add(vim.eval("[1, 2, 3]"))
   lua l:add(vim.eval("{'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}"))
-  call assert_equal([123.0, 'abc', v:true, v:false, [1, 2, 3], {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}], l)
-  call assert_equal(6.0, luaeval('#l'))
+  call assert_equal([123.0, 'abc', v:true, v:false, v:null, [1, 2, 3], {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}], l)
+  call assert_equal(7.0, luaeval('#l'))
   call assert_match('^list: \%(0x\)\?\x\+$', luaeval('tostring(l)'))
 
   lua l[0] = 124
-  lua l[4] = nil
+  lua l[5] = nil
   lua l:insert('first')
   lua l:insert('xx', 3)
-  call assert_equal(['first', 124.0, 'abc', 'xx', v:true, v:false, {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}], l)
+  call assert_equal(['first', 124.0, 'abc', 'xx', v:true, v:false, v:null, {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}], l)
 
   lockvar 1 l
   call assert_fails('lua l:add("x")', '[string "vim chunk"]:1: list is locked')
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 3de4461..623d2a0 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -800,6 +800,8 @@
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
 /**/
+    672,
+/**/
     671,
 /**/
     670,