Babel v7.8.6 release notes (2020-02-27)

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Babel v7.8.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-02-27 // over 4 years ago

v7.8.6 (2020-02-27)

Thanks to @brokensandals, @fengzilong, @InsignificantReasons, @liamfd, @liuxingbaoyu, and @openorclose for their first PRs!

🍱 👓 Spec Compliance
- 🔌 babel-helper-module-transforms, babel-helper-replace-supers, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs
  - #11109 Fix rewriteThis in helper-module-transforms for computed class elements (@sidntrivedi012)
- 📜 babel-parser
  - #10956 Refactor await/yield production parameter tracking (@JLHwung)
🍱 🚀 New Feature
- 🔌 babel-helper-create-regexp-features-plugin, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-named-capturing-groups-regex, babel-preset-env
  - #11134 Mark wrapNativeSuper and wrapRegExp as pure (@nicolo-ribaudo)
🍱 🐛 Bug Fix
- babel-helper-compilation-targets
  - #11124 fix: search for browserslist if esmodules is falsy (@fengzilong)
- babel-register
  - #11160 fix: workaround misleading node.js ENOENT error (@JLHwung)
- 📜 babel-parser
  - #11146 Parse declare modifier around accessibility modifiers (@JLHwung)
  - #11092 Fix Async Generic After Await Parsing Error (@liamfd)
- babel-compat-data, babel-preset-env
  - #10929 Update preset-env builtin-definitions (@JLHwung)
- babel-traverse
  - #11136 fix @babel/traverse can't use path.remove() with noScope (@liuxingbaoyu)
- 🔌 babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-replace-supers
  - #11068 Fix classNameTDZError in computed prototype methods with class fields (@sidntrivedi012)
- babel-template
  - #11112 Respect preserveComments option in tempate.ast() (@dentrado)
- 🔌 babel-plugin-transform-for-of
  - #11088 Allow redeclaration of loop variable in body (@openorclose)
- 🔌 babel-helper-module-transforms, babel-plugin-transform-modules-commonjs
  - #11074 Fix export bindings not updated by 'for ... in' and 'for ... of' (@vedantroy)
- babel-standalone
  - #10797 fix: specify sourceFileName when generating inline sourcemaps (@JLHwung)
- babel-types
  - #11089 Make isReferenced return false for method parameter name (@brokensandals)
💅 💅 Polish
- 🔌 babel-core, babel-generator, babel-plugin-external-helpers, babel-plugin-proposal-async-generator-functions, babel-plugin-proposal-class-properties, babel-plugin-proposal-decorators, babel-plugin-proposal-function-bind, babel-plugin-transform-async-to-generator, babel-plugin-transform-classes, babel-plugin-transform-flow-comments, babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types, babel-plugin-transform-function-name, babel-plugin-transform-parameters, babel-plugin-transform-react-constant-elements, babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx, babel-plugin-transform-regenerator, babel-plugin-transform-runtime, babel-plugin-transform-typescript, babel-preset-env
  - #11133 Skip newlines around inline # __PURE__ annotations (@nicolo-ribaudo)
🍱 🏠 Internal
- Other
  - #11175 replace gulp-watch by gulp.watch (@JLHwung)
  - #11163 chore: migrate lock threads to github actions (@JLHwung)
  - #11164 chore: specify dependency rule of check-compat-data-ci (@JLHwung)
  - #11072 Update @babel deps (@existentialism)
- 📜 babel-generator, babel-helper-fixtures, babel-parser, babel-traverse
  - #11168 Enable more eslint recommended rules (@JLHwung)
- babel-helper-replace-supers
  - #11121 Fix typing of ReplaceSupers options (@existentialism)
- 🔌 babel-core, babel-plugin-syntax-decorators, babel-template, babel-traverse
  - #11119 Add eslint-plugin-jest (@JLHwung)
- 📜 babel-parser
  - #11096 Wrap type-only class fields in flow comments (@nicolo-ribaudo)
- 📜 babel-core, babel-parser, babel-types
  - #11093 Turn on no-fallthrough rule (@JLHwung)
- babel-preset-stage-0, babel-preset-stage-1, babel-preset-stage-2, babel-preset-stage-3
  - #11101 Remove stage presets from the monorepo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
- babel-preset-env-standalone
  - #10993 Archive @babel/preset-env-standalone (@nicolo-ribaudo)
Committers: 12
- Brian Ng (@existentialism)
- Daryl Tan (@openorclose)
- Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
- Jacob Williams (@brokensandals)
- Kai Cataldo (@kaicataldo)
- Liam Doran (@liamfd)
- MO (@fengzilong)
- Martin Forsgren (@dentrado)
- Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
- Siddhant N Trivedi (@sidntrivedi012)
- Vedant Roy (@vedantroy)
- @liuxingbaoyu