Build(deps): Bump @babel/helper-validator-identifier from 7.27.1 to 7.28.5

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Bumps @babel/helper-validator-identifier from 7.27.1 to 7.28.5.

Release notes

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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)

v7.28.4 (2025-09-05)

Thanks @​gwillen and @​mrginglymus for your first PRs!

🏠 Internal

• babel-core, babel-helper-check-duplicate-nodes, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #17493 Update Jest to v30.1.1 (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-regenerator
  • #17455 chore: Clean up transform-regenerator (@​liuxingbaoyu)

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Changelog

Sourced from @​babel/helper-validator-identifier's changelog.

Changelog

Tags:

• 💥 [Breaking Change]
• 👓 [Spec Compliance]
• 🚀 [New Feature]
• 🐛 [Bug Fix]
• 📝 [Documentation]
• 🏠 [Internal]
• 💅 [Polish]

Note: Gaps between patch versions are faulty, broken or test releases.

This file contains the changelog starting from v8.0.0-alpha.0.

• See CHANGELOG - v7.15.0 to v7.28.5 for v7.15.0 to v7.28.5 changes (the last common release between the v8 and v7 release lines was v7.28.5).
• See CHANGELOG - v7.0.0 to v7.14.9 for v7.0.0 to v7.14.9 changes.
• See CHANGELOG - v7 prereleases for v7.0.0-alpha.1 to v7.0.0-rc.4 changes.
• See CHANGELOG - v4, CHANGELOG - v5, and CHANGELOG - v6 for v4.x-v6.x changes.
• See CHANGELOG - 6to5 for the pre-4.0.0 version changelog.
• See Babylon's CHANGELOG for the Babylon pre-7.0.0-beta.29 version changelog.
• See babel-eslint's releases for the changelog before @babel/eslint-parser 7.8.0.
• See eslint-plugin-babel's releases for the changelog before @babel/eslint-plugin 7.8.0.

v8.0.0-rc.3 (2026-03-16)

👓 Spec Compliance

• babel-parser
  • #17839 Fix(parser): async x => {} must be in leading pos (@​JLHwung)
  • #17803 Disallow non-leading solo await within F# pipeline (@​JLHwung)

💥 Breaking Change

• babel-parser, babel-plugin-proposal-do-expressions, babel-plugin-proposal-pipeline-operator, babel-plugin-transform-exponentiation-operator, babel-plugin-transform-instanceof, babel-traverse, babel-types
  • #17867 [Babel 8] Remove Import from the Expression alias (@​JLHwung)
• babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx-development, babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx, babel-preset-react
  • #17845 Gate jsxDEV source/self with developmentSourceSelf option (@​rootvector2)
• babel-generator, babel-parser, babel-types
  • #17835 fix: Remove decorators from TSDeclareMethod (@​liuxingbaoyu)
• babel-helper-import-to-platform-api, babel-plugin-proposal-import-wasm-source, babel-plugin-transform-json-modules
  • #17816 Pass file instead of path to importToPlatformApi builders (@​nicolo-ribaudo)

🚀 New Feature

• babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx-development, babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx, babel-preset-react
  • #17862 Add sourceSelf option to @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-development (@​nicolo-ribaudo)
• babel-parser
  • #16935 feat: Add locations option to parser (@​liuxingbaoyu)

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Commits

• 61647ae v7.28.5
• 6d418d2 Update identifier parsing to unicode 17 (#17501)
• See full diff in compare view

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