atom-typescript: Can't find proper default variable export syntax

Since the update from 1.10 to 2.6 (just after the switch to TypeScript 1.5) every d.ts file needs to have a default export. I haven’t read the ES6 spec, but I assume all modules have to have a default export now.

This is all well and good when exporting my own classes, but when using 3rd party libraries, this becomes difficult. Here is a snippet of JQuery d.ts code.

declare var $: JQueryStatic;
declare module "jquery" {
    export = $;
}

Before the update, this code worked just fine and didn’t produce any issues, but now I need a default export. The only syntactically correct way that I got to work was the following:

declare var $: JQueryStatic;
declare module "jquery" {
    export default $;
}

This produces incorrect code output:

// FROM
import $ from 'jquery';
var obj = $(ev.srcElement)

// TO
var jquery_1 = require('jquery');
var obj = jquery_1.default(ev.srcElement)

Clearly jQuery does not have a static default method, but even if it did, this is clearly not the expected behavior. Not to mention the $ was not preserved at all. Please let me know how I can declare a default export variable. I have done about an hour of searching for this syntax and cannot find it. Or perhaps I’m going about it the wrong way?

Anyway, thanks in advance.