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Babel 8 RC lands as Gatsby adds React 19 and Lodash ships a security reset

Several core JavaScript tools shipped meaningful updates: Babel moved to an 8.0 release candidate, Gatsby expanded compatibility with React 19, and Lodash published a security-focused reset release.

Babel, Gatsby, and Lodash all pushed noteworthy ecosystem updates, led by Babel 8 entering release-candidate status.

  • Babel: Babel 7 shipped its final release, and the Babel 8.0 line is now available as a release candidate.
  • Gatsby: Gatsby v5.16 adds React 19 support, extending compatibility for teams still building on Gatsby-based sites.
  • Lodash: Lodash 4.17.23 is positioned as a security reset for the widely used utility library, intended as a stable base for future maintenance.
  • Rspress: Rspress 2.0 is a major release for a Rust-powered static site generator with a JavaScript-facing workflow.
  • Node.js: Node 25.6.0 updates async_hooks with an option to skip Promise hooks (reducing overhead) and adds Unicode 17 support in URL parsing.