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2025

7.28.0 Released: `babel.config.ts`, explicit resource management, and discard binding proposal
Announcing Babel 8 Beta
7.27.0 Released: better ecosystem alignment

2024

7.26.0 Released: stage 4 features enabled by default, and a new experimental code printer
7.25.0 Released: Safari bugfixes and duplicated named capturing groups
7.24.0 Released: Decorator updates and JSON modules imports

2023

CVE-2023-45133: Finding an Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability In Babel
7.23.0 Released: Decorator Metadata and many new `import` features!
7.22.0 Released: Explicit Resource Management support and Import Attributes parsing
7.21.0 Released: Inline RegExp modifiers, TypeScript 5.0, and Decorators updates

2022

7.20.0 Released: Deno target and TypeScript 4.9
7.19.0 Released: Stage 3 decorators and more RegExp features!
7.18.0 Released: Destructuring private elements and TypeScript 4.7
7.17.0 Released: RegExp 'v' mode and ... 🥁 decorators!

2021

7.16.0 Released: ESLint 8 and TypeScript 4.5
7.15.0 Released: Hack-style pipelines, TypeScript const enums and Rhino target support
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
7.14.0 Released: New class features enabled by default, TypeScript 4.3, and better CommonJS interop
7.13.0 Released: Records and Tuples, granular compiler assumptions, and top-level targets

2020

7.12.0 Released: TypeScript 4.1, strings as import/export names, and class static blocks
7.11.0 Released: ECMAScript 2021 support in preset-env, TypeScript 4.0 support, printing config and the future of `babel-eslint`
The State of babel-eslint
7.10.0 Released: Class Fields in preset-env, '#private in' checks and better React tree-shaking
7.9.0 Released: Smaller preset-env output, Typescript 3.8 support and a new JSX transform
7.8.0 Released: ECMAScript 2020, .mjs configuration files and @babel/cli improvements

2019

Babel's Funding Plans
7.7.0 Released: Error recovery and TypeScript 3.7
7.6.0 Released: Private static accessors and V8 intrinsic syntax
7.5.0 Released: dynamic import and F# pipelines
The Babel Podcast
7.4.0 Released: core-js 3, static private methods and partial application
7.3.0 Released: Named capturing groups, private instance accessors and smart pipelines

2018

7.2.0 Released: Private Instance Methods
7.1.0 Released: Decorators, Private Static Fields
TC39 Standards Track Decorators in Babel
Babel 7 Released
Removing Babel's Stage Presets
What's Happening With the Pipeline (|>) Proposal?
Announcing Babel's New Partnership with trivago!
On Consuming (and Publishing) ES2015+ Packages

2017

Nearing the 7.0 Release
Babel Turns Three
Planning for 7.0
Zero-config code transformation with babel-plugin-macros
Contributing to Babel: Three Lessons to Remember
Personal Experiences at Babel #1 — A PR with Unusually High Number of Reviews
Babel and Summer of Code 2017
Upgrade to Babel 7 for Tool Authors (WIP)
Upgrade to Babel 7 (moved)
6.23.0 Released

2016

The State of Babel
6.19.0 Released
6.18.0 Released
6.16.0 Released
Babili (babel-minify)
6.14.0 Released

2015

Babel Doctor
Setting up Babel 6
6.0.0 Released
React on ES6+
Function Bind Syntax
5.0.0 Released
Babel <3 React
Not Born to Die
2to3
6to5 + esnext

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Nicolò Ribaudo
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