v7.29.0

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v7.29.0 (2026-01-31)

Thanks @​simbahax for your first PR!

🚀 New Feature

• babel-types
  • #​17750 [7.x backport] Add attributes import declaration builder (@​JLHwung)
• babel-standalone
  • #​17663 [7.x backport] feat(standalone): export async transform (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17725 [7.x backport] feat: read standalone targets from data-targets (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #​17765 fix(parser): correctly parse type assertions in extends clause (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
  • #​17723 [7.x backport] fix(parser): improve super type argument parsing (@​JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #​17708 fix(traverse): provide a hub when traversing a File or Program and no parentPath is given (@​simbahax)
• babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-traverse
  • #​17737 [7.x backport] fix: Rename switch discriminant references when body creates shadowing variable (@​magic-akari)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-generator, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17642 [Babel 7] Improve generator performance (@​liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 6

• David (@​simbahax)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• @​liuxingbaoyu
• @​magic-akari

v7.28.6

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v7.28.5

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👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #​17446 Allow Runtime Errors for Function Call Assignment Targets (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-validator-identifier
  • #​17501 fix: update identifier to unicode 17 (@​fisker)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private
  • #​17534 Allow mixing private destructuring and rest (@​CO0Ki3)
• babel-parser
  • #​17521 Improve @babel/parser error typing (@​JLHwung)
  • #​17491 fix: improve ts-only declaration parsing (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring
  • #​17519 fix: rest correctly returns plain array (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-member-expression-to-functions, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17503 Fix JSXIdentifier handling in isReferencedIdentifier (@​JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #​17504 fix: ensure scope.push register in anonymous fn (@​JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-types
  • #​17494 Type checking babel-types scripts (@​JLHwung)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-core
  • #​17490 Faster finding of locations in buildCodeFrameError (@​liuxingbaoyu)

v7.28.3

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👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-class-static-block, babel-preset-env
  • #​17443 [static blocks] Do not inject new static fields after static code (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #​17465 fix(parser/typescript): parse import("./a", {with:{},}) (@​easrng)
  • #​17478 fix(parser): stop subscript parsing on async arrow (@​JLHwung)

💅 Polish

• babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime
  • #​17363 Do not save last yield in call in temp var (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

📝 Documentation

• #​17448 move eslint-{parser,plugin} docs to the website (@​JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• #​17454 Enable type checking for scripts and babel-worker.cjs (@​JLHwung)

🔬 Output optimization

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions
  • #​17444 Optimize do expression output (@​JLHwung)

v7.28.0

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🚀 New Feature

• babel-node
  • #​17147 Support top level await in node repl (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-types
  • #​17258 feat(matchesPattern): support super/private/meta (@​JLHwung)
• babel-compat-data, babel-preset-env
  • #​17355 Add explicit resource management to preset-env (@​JLHwung)
• babel-core, babel-parser
  • #​17390 Support sourceType: "commonjs" (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser
  • #​17346 Materialize explicitResourceManagement parser plugin (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17391 LVal coverage updates (Part 2) (@​JLHwung)
• babel-parser, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17378 Accept bigints in t.bigIntLiteral factory (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring, babel-plugin-transform-explicit-resource-management, babel-plugin-transform-react-display-name, babel-types
  • #​17277 Transform discard binding (@​JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-typescript, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #​17163 Parse discard binding (@​JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-helper-globals, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-traverse
  • #​17297 Create babel-helper-globals (@​JLHwung)
• babel-types
  • #​17009 feature: TSTypeOperator: keyof (#​16799) (@​coderaiser)

🏠 Internal

• babel-compat-data, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-json-modules, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #​17403 Update babel-polyfill packages (@​nicolo-ribaudo)