Babel v7.0.0-alpha.18 release notes (2017-08-03)

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Babel v7.0.0-alpha.18 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-08-03 // over 6 years ago

:eyeglasses: Spec Compliance
- 🔌 babel-generator, babel-plugin-transform-flow-comments, babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types, babel-types
  - #5990 Flow opaque type aliases. (@jbrown215)
- babel-preset-stage-3
  - #6032 Add optional catch binding to stage 3 preset. (@existentialism)
:boom: Breaking Change
- 🔌 babel-plugin-transform-es2015-block-scoping, babel-traverse, babel-types
  - #5923 Prevent getFunctionParent from returning Program. (@sarupbanskota)
:rocket: New Feature
- babel-node
  - #6023 Make babel-node a standalone package. (@existentialism)
- babel-generator
  - #5896 babel-generator: Add TypeScript support. (@andy-ms)
:bug: Bug Fix
- 🔌 babel-plugin-transform-es2015-block-scoping, babel-preset-es2015
  - #6046 Fix invalid block-scoped loop. (@jridgewell)
- babel-types
  - #6031 Fix generate interfaces script. (@existentialism)
- babel-core
  - #6022 allow PluginPass.file.addImport to create empty import statements. (@chocolateboy)
📚 :memo: Documentation
- 🔌 babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining
  - #6035 Fix refs in transform-optional-chaining docs [skip ci]. (@existentialism)
- Other
  - #6024 add proposals repo [skip ci]. (@hzoo)
  - #6013 add TEST_GREP example clarification. (@kedromelon)
:house: Internal
- babel-*
  - #6044 Newlines in fixtures. (@hzoo)
- babel-generator
  - #6026 babel-generator: Comment TypeScript-specific code. (@andy-ms)
  - #6018 babel-generator: Make plugins list explicit for test cases. (@andy-ms)
- 🔌 babel-plugin-transform-function-sent, babel-preset-stage-2
  - #6020 Function sent. (@hzoo)
- babel-types
  - #6019 babel-types: Have NewExpression inherit from CallExpression. (@andy-ms)