Prevent regeneratorRuntime is not defined errors by defensively copying targets (preventing @babel/helper-compilation-targets from mutating targets)

index.js

@@ -542,7 +542,14 @@ module.exports = {
 
     let parser = require('@babel/helper-compilation-targets').default;
     if (typeof targets === 'object' && targets !== null) {
-      return parser(targets);
+      // babel version 7.10.0 introduced a change that mutates the input:
+      // https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/11500
+      // copy the object to guard against it, otherwise subsequent calls to
+      // _getTargets() will only have a mutated copy and lose all config from `config/targets.js`
+      // in the host application.
+      // PR to fix this upstream in babel: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/11648
+      const copy = clone(targets);
+      return parser(copy);
     } else {
       return targets;
     }

node-tests/addon-test.js

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ const terminateWorkerPool = require('./utils/terminate-workers');
 const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const rimraf = require('rimraf');
+const clone = require('clone');
 
 function prepareAddon(addon) {
   addon.pkg.keywords.push('ember-addon');
@@ -1353,6 +1354,16 @@ describe('ember-cli-babel', function() {
       let pluginRequired = this.addon.isPluginRequired('transform-regenerator');
       expect(pluginRequired).to.be.false;
     });
+
+    it('defensively copies `targets` to prevent @babel/helper-compilation-functions mutating it', function() {
+      let targets = {
+        browsers: ['last 2 Chrome versions']
+      };
+      this.addon.project.targets = clone(targets);
+
+      this.addon.isPluginRequired('transform-regenerator');
+      expect(this.addon.project.targets).to.deep.equal(targets);
+    });
   });
 });