Thread:Extension talk:Scribunto/Retrieving N latest category members/reply

Yes. Extension:DynamicPageListEngine provides a Lua interface to dynamic page lists as those in Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia) or Extension:DynamicPageList (third-party). This includes selecting up to N pages from a given category, sorted by creation date or date of addition to category. As the other dynamic page list extensions, it relies on directly querying the database, which is probably the most efficient method.

The extension is tagged as beta mainly because I have no feeedback from other users until now. In my company, it is in use since a couple of months, and it appears to be stable.