v8.0.7 (2026-10-07)

Thanks @brunoborta, @CINC0S, @hoobnn, and @jpradelle for your first PRs!

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-helper-create-regexp-features-plugin, babel-plugin-transform-dotall-regex, babel-plugin-transform-unicode-sets-regex, babel-preset-env
  • #18295 Bump regexpu-core to 6.5.3 (@JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-for-of
  • #18292 Skip for await in transform-for-of (@brunoborta)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #18283 Fix asyncIterator helper forwarding .throw() to .return() (@brunoborta)
• babel-parser
  • #18288 fix(parser): allow await as a function expression name inside async arrow (@JLHwung)
• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-class-properties, babel-plugin-transform-modules-systemjs, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #18284 Guard @@toPrimitive usage in toPrimitive helper (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping
  • #18195 fix: closures in for-loop init capture wrong binding (@joelle-a-dev)
• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-plugin-transform-private-property-in-object
  • #18265 Return false for #x in on static private fields before initialization (@hoobnn)
• babel-traverse
  • #18151 Evaluate TypeScript expression wrappers in NodePath#evaluate (@CINC0S)
  • #18250 fix(traverse): do not evaluate destructured bindings in path.evaluate (@wulu007)
• Other
  • #18257 Fix eslint-parser AST definition of AccessorProperty (@jpradelle)
• babel-core
  • #18254 fix(core): createConfigItem allows cb as 2nd arg (@JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #18255 Simplify interopRequireWildcard helper (@nicolo-ribaudo)

Committers: 11

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Bruno "Borta" Bortagaray (@brunoborta)
• CINC05 (@CINC0S)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Joelle Mahfoud (@joelle-a-dev)
• Julien Pradelle (@jpradelle)
• Kevin Deng (@sxzz)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• Samual Norman (@samualtnorman)
• @wulu007
• hoobnn (@hoobnn)

v7.29.10 (2026-10-07)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-class-properties, babel-plugin-transform-modules-systemjs, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-preset-env, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #18287 Guard @@toPrimitive usage in toPrimitive helper (@babel-bot)
• babel-traverse
  • #18281 fix(traverse): do not evaluate destructured bindings in path.evaluate (@babel-bot)

🏠 Internal

• babel-helpers, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs, babel-runtime-corejs3
  • #18279 Simplify interopRequireWildcard helper (@babel-bot)

Committers: 2

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)

v8.0.6 (2026-09-18)

Thanks @robhogan for your first PR!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-helper-validator-identifier, babel-parser
  • #18237 Update identifier definition to Unicode 18 (@JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #18240 Fix parsing of arrow function params inside ternaries with Flow (@robhogan)
• babel-helper-string-parser, babel-parser
  • #18239 fix: polish error message for invalid binary 0b19 (@JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-code-frame, babel-core, babel-generator, babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-module-transforms, babel-parser, babel-plugin-bugfix-safari-rest-destructuring-rhs-array, babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private, babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-typescript, babel-preset-env, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #18235 Remove unused internal exports (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-parser
  • #18245 test: test with ts-eslint 8.70.0 (@JLHwung)
• babel-core
  • #18231 build: do not emit sourcemap in production build (@JLHwung)
• babel-build-external-helpers, babel-cli, babel-code-frame, babel-core, babel-generator, babel-helper-compilation-targets, babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-globals, babel-helper-string-parser, babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner, babel-helper-validator-identifier, babel-node, babel-parser, babel-plugin-transform-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-register, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-traverse
  • #18236 Enforce usage of Yarn catalog for reused dependencies (@nicolo-ribaudo)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-helper-compilation-targets, babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner
  • #18232 Replace lru-cache with flru (@nicolo-ribaudo)

Committers: 4

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• Rob Hogan (@robhogan)

v7.29.9 (2026-09-18)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-plugin-transform-typescript
  • #18247 [ts] Allow merging enum into a namespace (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-parser
  • #18241 Fix parsing of arrow function params inside ternaries with Flow (@robhogan)

🏠 Internal

• babel-parser
  • #18245 test: test with ts-eslint 8.70.0 (@JLHwung)

Committers: 4

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Joelle Mahfoud (@joelle-a-dev)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• Rob Hogan (@robhogan)

v8.0.5 (2026-09-10)

Thanks @drubetti, @jibin7jose, @joelle-a-dev, @journey-ad, @Kjubikstronk, @MatteoGabriele, and @zhangli091011 for your first PRs!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #18218 fix(parser): do not form html entity for invalid codepoint (@JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-parser
  • #18215 fix(parser): remove non-decimal prefix from bigint (@JLHwung)
  • #18063 Disallow new import prop access (@JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-destructuring
  • #18214 fix: only collapse the empty-object check when it targets the declared binding (@Kjubikstronk)
• babel-plugin-transform-typescript
  • #18190 fix(ts): improve variable handling in namespace (@JLHwung)
  • #18207 [ts] Allow merging enum into a namespace (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-node
  • #18217 Fix import path for babel-node.js (@drubetti)
• babel-plugin-bugfix-safari-rest-destructuring-rhs-array
  • #18213 fix(bugfix): bound check before array access (@JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #18183 fix(remove): unwrap single sequence expression (@JLHwung)
  • #18153 Handle null in getAll{Prev,Next}Siblings (@JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping
  • #18194 fix: improve for loop closure environment check (@JLHwung)
  • #18193 fix: assign closure body after handling return (@JLHwung)
  • #18088 Fix initialization of nested for loop head declarations (@journey-ad)
• babel-generator
  • #18202 fix(generator): keep parens for ?. chain in tag (@JLHwung)
• babel-register
  • #18137 fix(babel-register): preserve app-managed graceful shutdown (@jibin7jose)
• Other
  • #18140 chore: fix @babel/eslint-plugin peer deps (@JLHwung)
• babel-cli, babel-helper-transform-fixture-test-runner, babel-register
  • #18131 fix(register): do not inherit parent execArgv (@JLHwung)
• babel-standalone
  • #18095 Add types for @babel/standalone (@liuxingbaoyu)

📝 Documentation

• #18187 Add AI policy (@nicolo-ribaudo)

🏠 Internal

• babel-cli, babel-core, babel-helper-compilation-targets, babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-create-regexp-features-plugin, babel-helper-fixtures, babel-preset-env
  • #18145 refactor: replace semver with verkit (@sxzz)
• babel-node
  • #18177 Update node flags list (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-types
  • #18103 Simplify AST validators (@fisker)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-parser
  • #18176 perf: Improve @babel/parser (@liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 14

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Daniele Rubetti (@drubetti)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Jad (@journey-ad)
• Joelle Mahfoud (@joelle-a-dev)
• Kevin Deng (@sxzz)
• Matteo Gabriele (@MatteoGabriele)
• Miodrag Obradovic (@Kjubikstronk)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• Rayan Salhab (@cyphercodes)
• @liuxingbaoyu
• @zhangli091011
• fisker Cheung (@fisker)
• jibin jose (@jibin7jose)

v7.29.8 (2026-07-31)

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-transform-spread, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #17871 Disallow super call after new (@JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-generator
  • #18046 fix(generator): improve new callee parens check (@JLHwung)
• babel-node, babel-plugin-transform-modules-systemjs
  • #18044 fix(systemjs): support __proto__ as an export name (@JLHwung)

Committers: 2

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)

v8.0.4 (2026-07-09)

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser, babel-plugin-transform-typescript
  • #18120 fix(parser): disallow declare module M {} (@JLHwung)
• babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-transform-typescript
  • #18100 fix(parser): forbid let x! and let x! = (@JLHwung)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-traverse
  • #18122 fix: replaceWith in Visitor#exit should not stop traversal (@liuxingbaoyu)

🏠 Internal

• babel-helper-validator-identifier
  • #18084 refactor: Shrink validator identifier size (@JLHwung)

Committers: 4

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• @liuxingbaoyu

v8.0.3 (2026-06-27)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-core, babel-plugin-syntax-typescript
  • #18089 fix: Remove isTSX from babel-plugin-syntax-typescript types (@liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-standalone
  • #18086 fix: Use runtime: 'classic' in the browser for React (@liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 2

• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• @liuxingbaoyu

v8.0.2 (2026-06-18)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Other
  • #18083 Use the @babel/core version when asserting version in @babel/standalone (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-helper-validator-identifier
  • #18075 fix(identifier): avoid double escaping slash (@JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-preset-env
  • #18081 Update @babel/preset-modules and polyfill packages (@nicolo-ribaudo)

Committers: 2

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)

v8.0.1 (2026-06-17)

This release includes a breaking change that was in the Babel 8 migration guide's Getting ready section and in the release post, but the actual removal of the feature from the codebase was accidentally not complete.

💥 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)

Committers: 2

• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)