# Changelog

> **Tags:**
> - [New Feature]
> - [Bug Fix]
> - [Spec Compliancy]
> - [Breaking Change]
> - [Documentation]
> - [Internal]
> - [Polish]

_Note: Gaps between patch versions are faulty/broken releases._

See [CHANGELOG - 6to5](CHANGELOG-6to5.md) for the pre-4.0.0 version changelog.

## 4.6.1

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix generators in template directory being transformed.
  * Fix exposure of `util` for plugins.

## 4.6.0

 * **New Feature**
  * Desugar sticky regexes to a new constructor expression so it can be handled by a polyfill.
 * **Spec Compliancy**
  * `for...of` now outputs in a lengthy `try...catch` this is to ensure spec compliancy in regards to iterator returns and abrupt completions. See [google/traceur-compiler#1773](https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler/issues/1773) and [babel/babel/#838](https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/838) for more information.
 * **Polish**
  * Rest parameters that are only refered to via number properties on member expressions are desugared into a direct `arguments` reference. Thanks [@neVERberleRfellerER](https://github.com/neVERberleRfellerER)!
  * `$ babel` no longer exits on syntax errors.
 * **Internal**
  * Upgrade `browserify`.
  * Upgrade `source-map`.
  * Publicly expose more internals.

## 4.5.5

 * **Polish**
  * Delete old extensions when overriding them in `babel/register`.

## 4.5.3

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix whitelisting logic for helper build script.

## 4.5.2

 * **New Feature**
  * `returnUsedHelpers` option and add whitelist to `buildHelpers`.
 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix function arity on self referencing inferred named functions.
 * **Internal**
  * Bump `acorn-babel`.
  * Start converting source to ES6...

## 4.5.1

**Babel now compiles itself!**

![holy shit](http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/03/OMG-GIF_2.gif)

## 4.5.0

 * **New Feature**
  * Add `.babelrc` support.
 * **Bug Fix**
  * Move use strict directives to the module formatter bodies.
 * **Internal**
  * Make default `bin/babel` behaviour to ignore non-compilable files and add a `--copy-files` flag to revert to the old behaviour.

## 4.4.6

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix extending a class expression with no methods/only constructor. Thanks [@neVERberleRfellerER](https://github.com/neVERberleRfellerER)!
  * Allow `MemberExpression` as a valid `left` of `ForOfStatement`.
 * **Polish**
  * Throw an error when people try and transpile code with the `@jsx React.DOM` pragma as it conflicts with the custom jsx constructo method detection.
  * Crawl all comments for `@jsx` pragma.
 * **Internal**
  * Upgrade `chalk`.
  * Upgrade `core-js`.

## 4.4.5

 * **Internal**
  * Remove function self reference optimisation.

## 4.4.4

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Handle inferred function ids to be reassigned and deopt to a slower but working equivalent.
  * Don't unpack array patterns that have more elements than their right hand array expression.
 * **Polish**
  * Improve syntax highlighting in the code frame. Thanks [@lydell](https://github.com/lydell)!
 * **Internal**
  * Upgrade `acorn-babel`.

## 4.4.3

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix `for...of` iterator break returns being duplicated.
  * Only call `return` on the iterator if it exists.
 * **Internal**
  * Rename `selfContained` transformer to `runtime`.

## 4.4.2

 * **New Feature**
  * Add `moduleId` option for specifying a custom module id.

## 4.4.0

 * **New Feature**
  * `/*** @jsx NAMESPACE **/` comments are now honored by the `react` transformer.
  * `getModuleName` option.
  * Infer function expression names. Thanks [@RReverser](https://github.com/RReverser)!
 * **Bug Fix**
  * Add proper control flow for tail recursion optimisation.
 * **Internal**
  * Remove useless `format` options and move the `format.compact` option to `format`.
 * **Polish**
  * Newline handling of the code generator has been heavily improved.
  * Code generator now deopts whitespace if the input size is >100KB.

## 4.3.0

 * **Breaking Change**
  * Remove `commonStandard` module formatter and make it the default behaviour of all the strict module formatters.

## 4.2.1

 * **Polish**
  * Add auxiliary comment to let scoping closure flow control.

## 4.2.0

 * **Polish**
  * Use an assignment instead of a define for `__esModule` in loose mode.
 * **Internal**
  * Add error for `eval();` usage and enable strict mode for parsing.

## 4.1.0

 * **New Feature**
  * Add `BABEL_CACHE_PATH` and `BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE` environment variables.
 * **Internal**
  * Replace many internal util functions with modules. Thanks [@sindresorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus)!

## 4.0.2

 * **Bug Fix**
  * Fix generators not properly propagating their internal declarations.
 * **Polish**
  * Update setter param length error message.
  * Use ranges on dependencies.

## 4.0.0

 * 6to5 is now known as Babel.
 * Global helpers/runtime has now been given the more descriptive name of "external helpers".