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title: "7.26.0 Released: stage 4 features enabled by default, and a new experimental code printer · Babel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-26-0-released-stage-4-features-enabled-by-default-and-a-new-experimental-code-printer-babel-gz6wcnmcr
source_url: https://babeljs.io/blog/2024/10/25/7.26.0
type: article
source: "Babel"
published: 2024-10-25T13:42:13.250Z
updated: 2024-12-09T11:24:43.355Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "typescript", "babel"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 7.26.0 Released: stage 4 features enabled by default, and a new experimental code printer · Babel

**[Babel](https://daily.dev/sources/babel)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Babel 7.26.0 introduces new default features including support for ECMAScript proposals like import attributes and inline regular expression modifiers. It also includes async hooks for plugins and an experimental mode to preserve token positions in transformed output. Significant changes involve the renaming of some plugins and alignment with TypeScript for rewriting .ts extensions in dynamic imports.

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