July 3, 2019
Today we are releasing Babel 7.5.0!
This release includes improved support for a few ECMAScript proposals: the F# variant of the Stage 1 pipeline operator and an official plugin for the Stage 4 dynamic import() proposal (along with preset-env support).
It also has support for TypeScript namespaces (experimental) and for Browserslist's default query in preset-env.
You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
July 2, 2019
Today we're announcing the The Babel Podcast!
You probably use Babel, directly or as a dependency. But do you ever wonder who works on it? Henry Zhu chats with other members of the team, TC39, and the JS community about the future of JavaScript and how it's all maintained. Please join us in babbling about Babel (and everything else)!
March 19, 2019
Today we are releasing Babel 7.4.0!
This release includes support for TypeScript 3.4, the proposal for partial application in function calls, and static private methods.
We added support for meaningful parenthesized expressions in @babel/parser, and also made it more spec compliant than ever!
Last but not least, both @babel/preset-env and @babel/transform-runtime now support core-js@3, and @babel/template has some sweet new syntax!
You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
January 21, 2019
After over 80 commits, the latest Babel minor release is here!
This release includes support for named capturing groups in regular expressions, private instance accessors, the smart pipeline operator and a bunch of improvements to TypeScript parsing. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
December 3, 2018
We just released a new minor version of Babel!
This release includes support for private instance methods and a bunch of bug fixes regarding Flow and TypeScript types. You can read the whole changelog on GitHub.
September 17, 2018
Babel 7.1.0 finally supports the new decorators proposal: you can try it out by using the @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators plugin 🎉.
September 17, 2018
There's already another release! 7.1.0 includes support for Stage 2 Decorators and adds support for Stage 3 Private Static Fields as well as some various bug fixes.
August 27, 2018
After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. It's been almost 3 years since the release of Babel 6! There's a lot of moving parts so please bear with us in the first weeks of release. Babel 7 is a huge release: we've made it faster, created an upgrade tool, JS configs, config "overrides", more options for size/minification, JSX Fragments, TypeScript, new proposals, and more!
July 27, 2018
Moving forward with v7, we've decided it's best to stop publishing the Stage presets in Babel (e.g. @babel/preset-stage-0).
We didn't make this decision lightly and wanted to show the context behind the interplay between TC39, Babel, and the community.
July 19, 2018
With the release of babel@7.0.0-beta52, we introduced a new required configuration flag to @babel/plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator, a breaking change for the pipeline operator. To clear up any confusion, let's take a look at the pipeline proposal and why we needed to introduce this configuration option.