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title: "7.28.0 Released: `babel.config.ts`, explicit resource management, and discard binding proposal · Babel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-28-0-released-babel-config-ts-explicit-resource-management-and-discard-binding-proposal-bab-qthdza0hy
source_url: https://babeljs.io/blog/2025/06/30/7.28.0
type: article
source: "Babel"
published: 2025-07-02T09:26:36.693Z
updated: 2025-07-02T09:27:01.493Z
tags: ["javascript", "nodejs", "typescript", "babel"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# 7.28.0 Released: `babel.config.ts`, explicit resource management, and discard binding proposal · Babel

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

## Summary

Babel 7.28.0 introduces native TypeScript configuration file support with babel.config.ts and babel.config.mts, enables ES2026 explicit resource management by default in preset-env, adds support for the discard binding proposal using void syntax, and introduces a new commonjs source type option for CommonJS-specific environments like Node.js.

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