v7.28.5 (2025-10-23)

Thank you @CO0Ki3, @Olexandr88, and @youthfulhps for your first PRs!

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #17446 Allow Runtime Errors for Function Call Assignment Targets (@liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-validator-identifier
  • #17501 fix: update identifier to unicode 17 (@fisker)

🐛 Bug Fix

• babel-plugin-proposal-destructuring-private
  • #17534 Allow mixing private destructuring and rest (@CO0Ki3)
• babel-parser
  • #17521 Improve @babel/parser error typing (@JLHwung)
  • #17491 fix: improve ts-only declaration parsing (@JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-proposal-discard-binding, babel-plugin-transform-destructuring
  • #17519 fix: rest correctly returns plain array (@liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-create-class-features-plugin, babel-helper-member-expression-to-functions, babel-plugin-transform-block-scoping, babel-plugin-transform-optional-chaining, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #17503 Fix JSXIdentifier handling in isReferencedIdentifier (@JLHwung)
• babel-traverse
  • #17504 fix: ensure scope.push register in anonymous fn (@JLHwung)

🏠 Internal

• babel-types
  • #17494 Type checking babel-types scripts (@JLHwung)

🏃‍♀️ Performance

• babel-core
  • #17490 Faster finding of locations in buildCodeFrameError (@liuxingbaoyu)

Committers: 8

• Babel Bot (@babel-bot)
• Byeongho Yoo (@youthfulhps)
• Huáng Jùnliàng (@JLHwung)
• Hyeon Dokko (@CO0Ki3)
• Nicolò Ribaudo (@nicolo-ribaudo)
• @Olexandr88
• @liuxingbaoyu
• fisker Cheung (@fisker)