Babel v7.17.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-02-02 // about 2 years ago
  • :rocket: New Feature

    • babel-cli, babel-core
    • ๐Ÿ“œ babel-core, babel-parser, babel-traverse
      • #14174 Expose .index on Position to internally track nodes location (@tolmasky)
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator, babel-plugin-syntax-pipeline-operator
    • babel-traverse
      • #13940 Add new method to check if node is null or not (@danez)
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-plugin-syntax-destructuring-private, babel-standalone
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helpers, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-syntax-decorators, babel-runtime-corejs2, babel-runtime-corejs3, babel-runtime, babel-standalone, babel-types
    • ๐Ÿ“œ babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-traverse, babel-types
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ babel-core, babel-helper-create-regexp-features-plugin, babel-plugin-proposal-unicode-sets-regex, babel-plugin-syntax-unicode-sets-regex, babel-plugin-transform-dotall-regex
    • ๐Ÿ“œ babel-parser
    • babel-register

    :bug: Bug Fix

    • ๐Ÿ“œ babel-parser
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ babel-plugin-transform-runtime

    ๐Ÿ“š :memo: Documentation

    :house: Internal

    • ๐Ÿ“œ babel-helper-fixtures, babel-parser
    • babel-compat-data
      • #14208 Update compat data (specifically for rhino 1.7.14) (@phulin)
    • Other

    ๐ŸŽ :running_woman: Performance

    • babel-cli, babel-core