v8.0.1

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💥 Breaking Change

• babel-core, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-standalone
  • #​18079 Actually remove preset-env's useBuiltIns (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

v8.0.0

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👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-core
  • #​18039 perf: Only extract source map comments at the end of the file (@​liuxingbaoyu)

💥 Breaking Change

• babel-cli, babel-node, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-function-name, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread, babel-plugin-transform-parameters, babel-plugin-transform-react-constant-elements, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-preset-env, babel-register
  • #​18069 Fallback to assuming ESM support with modules: auto (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-runtime
  • #​18036 Remove corejs exports for @babe/runtime-corejs3 (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-parser
  • #​18034 Remove locations: "packed" (@​liuxingbaoyu)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-generator
  • #​18046 fix(generator): improve new callee parens check (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-modules-systemjs
  • #​18032 fix(systemjs): support proto as an export name (@​JLHwung)

📝 Documentation

• #​18070 Add EOL date for Babel 7 (end of June 2027) to SECURITY.md (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🏠 Internal

• #​18018 ci: enforce yarn integrity (@​JLHwung)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-core
  • #​18039 perf: Only extract source map comments at the end of the file (@​liuxingbaoyu)

v7.29.7

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v7.29.7 (2026-05-25)

Re-release all packages with npm provenance attestations

v7.29.6

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v7.29.6 (2026-05-25)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-generator
  • #​18014 Catchup source map position in preserveFormat (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-core
  • #​18001 [7.x packport]Improve input source map handling (@​JLHwung)
• babel-core, babel-generator
  • #​17998 Preserve original identifier names from input sourcemaps (#​17992) (@​Andarist)

Committers: 3

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@​JLHwung)
• Mateusz Burzyński (@​Andarist)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

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