diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f27f035e9..7fb029159 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Currently, the `@compat` macro supports the following syntaxes:
 
 * `Compat.IOBuffer` supporting keyword arguments ([#25873]).
 
-* `Compat.range` supporting keyword arguments ([#25896]).
+* `Compat.range` supporting positional and keyword arguments flavors ([#25896]), ([#28708]).
 
 * `Compat.trunc`, `Compat.floor`, `Compat.ceil`, `Compat.round`, take a keyword argument
   for `base` and `digits`, `Compat.round` also takes `sigdigits` ([#26156], [#26670]).
diff --git a/src/Compat.jl b/src/Compat.jl
index 1f016d37b..c1e0bdfe6 100644
--- a/src/Compat.jl
+++ b/src/Compat.jl
@@ -1527,6 +1527,9 @@ end
             return linspace(start, stop, length)
         end
     end
+elseif VERSION < v"1.0.0-DEV.57"
+    import Base: LinRange
+    range(start; kwargs...) = Base.range(start; kwargs...)
 else
     import Base: range, LinRange
 end
@@ -1839,6 +1842,10 @@ if VERSION < v"0.7.0-beta2.143"
     end
 end
 
+if VERSION ≤ v"1.0" || isempty(methods(range, Tuple{Any,Any}))
+    range(start, stop; kwargs...) = range(start; stop=stop, kwargs...)
+end
+
 include("deprecated.jl")
 
 end # module Compat
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 155b801eb..815b3e173 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1518,4 +1518,8 @@ end
                                    3  4  3  4  3  4]
 @test repeat([1, 2], 1, 2, 3) == [x for x in 1:2, y in 1:2, z in 1:3]
 
+# Support for positional `stop`
+@test Compat.range(0, 5, length = 6) == 0.0:1.0:5.0
+@test Compat.range(0, 10, step = 2) == 0:2:10
+
 nothing