Astro 7.1
Astro 7.1 is about more control: CSP, pagination, dev server, and content collections.
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What's new in Astro - June 2026
June 2026 - Astro 7, summer swag collection, Astro Germany meetup, and more!
Astro 7.0
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
Astro Mart: Summer 2026 Collection
Get ready for a summer of sport with our new personalizable merch.
What's new in Astro - May 2026
May 2026 - A new Astro jobs board, TinaCMS makes Astro their default template, experimental advanced routing, and more!
Astro 6.4
Astro 6.4 introduces a new pluggable Markdown processor API, a Rust-based Markdown processor for faster builds, and helpers to wire up experimental advanced routing with Cloudflare.
Starlight 0.39
Get more flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support with the latest Starlight release.
Astro 6.3
Astro 6.3 introduces experimental advanced routing with Hono support, image redirect handling, resilient island hydration, and more.
What's new in Astro - April 2026
April 2026 - Astro Together London, an alpha preview of Astro 7, and more!
Astro 6.2
Astro 6.2 introduces an experimental custom logger with JSON output, an SVG optimizer API, a new font file URL helper, and more.
What's new in Astro - March 2026
March 2026 - Astro 6, CloudCannon CMS Partnership, Astro Together London, and more!
Astro 6.1
Astro 6.1 introduces codec-specific Sharp image defaults, advanced SmartyPants configuration, and i18n fallback routes for integrations.
CloudCannon Joins Astro as an Official CMS Partner
Announcing CloudCannon as an official Astro partner, sponsoring $4,000 each month toward the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.
Astro 6.0
Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more.
What's new in Astro - February 2026
February 2026 - Astro shines in the 2025 State of JS, adoption climbs according to HTTP Archive results, and more!
What's new in Astro - January 2026
January 2026 - Astro joins Cloudflare, Astro v6 beta is released, and more!
Astro 5.17
Astro 5.17 brings configurable dev toolbar placement, support for partitioned cookies, and powerful new image optimization options.
Supporting the future of Astro
Help make Astro a sustainable open source project by sponsoring our community maintainers.
The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
Astro 6 Beta
A redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections.
2025 year in review
Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, ecosystem growth, conference talks, and more!
What's new in Astro - December 2025
December 2025 - Astro v6 alpha release, and more!
What's new in Astro - November 2025
November 2025 - Astro powers Webflow's App Gen, Stainless launches a Starlight-powered docs platform, and more!
Astro 5.16
Astro 5.16 brings experimental SVG optimization with SVGO, interactive CLI shortcuts, and improved developer experience across the board.
Stainless Sponsors Astro, Launches Astro-Powered Docs Platform
Stainless chooses Astro and Starlight to power the new Stainless Docs Platform and joins as our newest official sponsoring partner of the Astro open-source project.
What's new in Astro - October 2025
October 2025 - The future of Astro is revealed, Biome support arrives, Astro skyrockets in GitHub's Octoverse 2025, and more!
Astro 5.15
Astro 5.15 introduces Netlify skew protection, granular font preload filtering, and new adapter APIs for customizing fetch headers and assets.
Spirit of Astro: meet the winning designs
New t-shirt designs and a pixel perfect Astro mug, designed with love by the Astro community.
What's new in Astro - September 2025
September 2025 - Partnerships and sponsorships, 3 million npm downloads, State of JS survey, and more!
Astro 5.14
Astro 5.14 has a bumper harvest of features and DX improvements to warm the cockles of your heart, with new routing tools, async Svelte rendering, React 19 actions support, and more!
Cloudflare Donates $150,000 to Support Astro's Open Source Mission
Announcing Cloudflare as our new partner alongside their $150,000 donation to the Astro open source project.
Webflow Donates $150,000 to Support Astro's Open Source Mission
We are happy to announce Webflow's $150,000 donation to Astro and selection of Astro to power their new AI code gen capabilities, coming soon.
Unleashing creativity
How Astro gives CodeTV everything they need to run a subscription-based TV service.
Mux: Our Official Video Partner
We are happy to announce Mux as our official video partner, donating $5,000 each month toward the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.
What's new in Astro - August 2025
August 2025 - 1 million Astro VSCode extension installs, easier ways to contribute to Astro, and more!
Astro 5.13
Astro 5.13 ships experimental improvements to environment variable handling, support for Chrome DevTools workspaces, and more!
What's new in Astro - July 2025
July 2025 - Build Astro with AI Tools, "The Future of Astro" at ViteConf 2025, and more!
Astro 5.12
Astro 5.12 ships TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, and improved Netlify adapter development experience!
Starlight 0.35
Customize icons, attributes, and page slugs with the latest Starlight release.
Astro 5.11
Astro 5.11 ships more Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to disable streaming in the Node.js adapter, and more!
What's new in Astro - June 2025
June 2025 - Astro Solstice Festival, new Astro Mart swag shop, Spirit of Astro design contest, and more!
Live Content Collections: A Deep Dive
Explore Astro 5.10's experimental live content collections - bringing real-time data to your Astro sites with the same familiar API you know and love.
Astro Solstice Festival
The planets have aligned to bring you the Astro Solstice Festival – a week-long celebration of all things Astro
Introducing… Astro Mart
It’s time to suit up, Astronaut! Welcome to a brave new frontier in Astro merch.
Astro 5.10
Astro 5.10 brings responsive images for everyone, plus experimental live content collections, CSP improvements, and more!
Astro 5.9
Astro 5.9 has got your site on lockdown, with experimental support for Content Security Policy, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more!
What's new in Astro - May 2025
May 2025 - Michelin + ApostropheCMS case study, new Astro course from James Q Quick, and more!
What's new in Astro - April 2025
April 2025 - April Launch Week, Agency Partner Program, 2 million monthly downloads, and more!
2025 Technical Steering Committee
Meet Astro’s 2025 Technical Steering Committee and learn how our open governance model supports the framework’s growth, performance, and community-led development.
Starlight April Update
Rejuvenate your docs with heading anchor links, Tailwind v4 support, CSS @layer, and a new head metadata API.
Astro 5.7
Astro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
Astro Agency Partner Program
Announcing the Astro Agency Partner Program, a new way to connect with expert Astro agencies
Astro 5.6
Astro 5.6 brings first-class astro:env and experimental session support to Cloudflare, and gives more control over prefetching.
What's new in Astro - March 2025
March 2025 - Celebrating 50K GitHub stars, ViteConf, and more!
Astro 5.5
Astro 5.5 dives deep with better support for diagramming tools, improved Markdown compatibility, and type-safe sessions!
What's new in Astro - February 2025
February 2025 - Storyblok live previews, Astro integrations at TheJam.dev, behind the scenes at Astro Together, and more!
Astro 5.4
Astro 5.4 brings remote image optimization in Markdown, enhanced security for dev and preview servers, RegExp support for Vercel ISR excludes, and more!
Starlight 0.32
The latest Starlight features unlock new possibilities on our path to v1. Let’s meet route middleware, plugin i18n APIs, and multisite search.
Astro 5.3
Astro 5.3 is here with faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more!
What's new in Astro - January 2025
January 2025 - Starting the year off with a bang!
Astro 5.2
Astro 5.2 is now available! The first minor release of 2025 includes Tailwind 4 support, a new way to access config values in your pages, better trailing slash handling, and support for external redirects.
2024 year in review
Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, survey results, Astro Together, and more!
What's new in Astro - December 2024
December 2024 - Astro 5, State of JS, Google IDX partnership, and more!
Astro 5.1
Astro 5.1 is now available. This includes a new experimental sessions feature, improved caching for images, and new tools for building Astro Actions.
Astro 5.0
Astro 5.0 brings exciting new features like the Astro Content Layer for seamless content loading from any source, and Server Islands for effortlessly combining static and dynamic personalized content.
Google IDX: Our Official Online Editor Partner
We are happy to announce that Google IDX has become Astro’s official online editor partner, donating $10,000 each month towards the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.
What's new in Astro - November 2024
November 2024 - Astro joins Bluesky, Vite 6, and more!
What's new in Astro - October 2024
October 2024 - The State of Frontend 2024, Astro Cloudinary, and more!
Astro x Cloudinary SDK
We are happy to partner with Cloudinary to launch the Astro x Cloudinary SDK: a comprehensive API for building with images and videos in Astro.
What's new in Astro - September 2024
September 2024 - Beta 5.0, Astro Storefront, $100,000 Ecosystem Fund update, and more!
Astro x Storyblok: Content Loader
We are excited to announce Storyblok as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer.
Astro x Cloudinary: Content Loader
We are happy to announce Cloudinary as a launch partner for the Astro Content Layer API.
Astro x Hygraph: Content Loader
We are excited to announce Hygraph as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer.
Community Loaders for Astro Content Layer
An overview of some of the early and promising loaders for Astro's Content Layer.
Starlight 0.28
Meet the latest Starlight features: i18next, on-demand rendering support, sidebar persistence, smart tabs, and more for your docs.
Content Layer: A Deep Dive
There's a new way to handle content in Astro. Take a deep dive into the Content Layer API, and learn how it can help you build even more kinds of sites using Astro.
Astro 5.0 Beta Release
The first beta for Astro 5.0 beta is now available for you to try!
The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update
Astro — the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce — is giving away $100,000 to support other open-source projects in our ecosystem that improve the lives of Astro users everywhere, every day. Here's an update on the program, including two new gra...
Goodbye Studio, Hello DB
We have decided to wind down Astro Studio and open up Astro DB to connect to any libSQL database, including Turso. Read on to hear what comes next for Astro and Astro DB.
What's new in Astro - August 2024
August 2024 - Content Layer API (experimental), Astro Actions, and more!
Astro 4.15
Astro 4.15 is now available! This release stabilizes Astro Actions — our solution for fully type-safe backend functions. Also included: support for libSQL remotes in Astro DB, a new timeout option for `client:idle`, and more.
Astro 4.14
Astro 4.14 is available now! This release includes the first experimental version of the Content Layer API, experimental support for Intellisense inside content files, and more.
Astro 4.13
Astro 4.13 is now available! This release includes stabilized experimental features, logging improvements, and more.
What's new in Astro - July 2024
July 2024 - Server islands, Netlify partnership, and more!
Astro 4.12: Server Islands
Astro 4.12 is now available! This release includes includes the first experimental release of Server Islands, improvements to pagination and syntax highlighting, and more.
Netlify: Our Official Deployment Partner
We are happy to announce that Netlify has become Astro’s official deployment partner, donating $12,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro.
What's new in Astro - June 2024
June 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together!
Astro 4.11
Astro 4.11 is out with custom 500 page improvements and Shiki transformers in the Code component.
Server Islands
Part three of our series on The Future of Astro, covering a new island architecture pattern for dynamic content rendered inside of fast, CDN-cached static pages.
The Astro Content Layer
Part two of our series on The Future of Astro, covering our plans for the next evolution of content management in Astro.
Zero-JavaScript View Transitions
Part one of our series on The Future of Astro. Browser-native page transitions are now possible with zero JavaScript required.
Astro 4.10
Astro 4.10 is out with experimental type-safe environment variables, as well as enhancements to the Container API and Rewrites.
Starlight turns one year old!
Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development
What's new in Astro - May 2024
May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together!
Astro 4.9
Astro 4.9 is now available! This release includes the long-awaited Container API, stabilized experimental features, and more.
Astro 4.8
Astro 4.8 is here! This release includes experimental support for Astro actions and request rewriting, performance improvements, and more.
What's new in Astro - April 2024
April 2024 - Passing 10,000,000 downloads on NPM, getting together in Montreal, and more!
Astro 4.7
Astro 4.7 is out now! This release includes significant improvements to the API for making toolbar apps, a new way to keep yourself up to date, and more.
Astro 4.6
Astro 4.6 is here! This release includes a new manual routing strategy for internationalization, the ability to move the dev toolbar, experimental support for CSRF protection, and more.
What's new in Astro - March 2024
March 2024 - Astro DB, Astro Developer Portal and so much more
Migrating 500+ tests from Mocha to Node.js
A retrospective of how Astro migrated more than 500 test suites from Mocha to Node.js test runner.
The Astro Developer Portal
Today, we’re launching the Astro Developer Portal, a platform where theme authors can submit, manage, and promote their themes built for Astro.
Astro DB: A Deep Dive
Yesterday we launched a fully managed SQL database service designed exclusively for the Astro web framework. Let's dive into the implementation details of Astro DB: how it works, why we built it, and why we're adopting libSQL.
Astro DB
Astro DB is here! Astro DB is a fully managed SQL database designed exclusively for Astro. It is fast, lightweight, and ridiculously easy-to-use.
Astro + Volar = 💖
Astro relies on the hard work and dedication of several open-source projects, and we are extremely thankful to the maintainers of each and every one. In this article, we'd like to highlight one specific project that made a significant impact to the Astro experience: Volar.
Astro 4.5
Astro 4.5 is out! This release includes a new Dev Audit UI, View Transition improvements, Shiki 1.0, multi-CDN asset prefixing, and more!
What's new in Astro - February 2024
Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day!
Astro 4.4
Astro 4.4 is now available! This release includes the addition of performance audits for the dev toolbar, performance upgrades, the ability to automatically infer the dimensions of remote images, and more.
Astro 4.3
Astro 4.3 is out now! This release includes support for domain routing in i18n, better support for relative images in Markdown, a new `ComponentProps` type export, and more.
What's new in Astro - January 2024
2023 was a huge year for Astro, and 2024 is already shaping up to be even bigger. Let's dive into the updates!
Astro 4.2
Astro 4.2 is out now! This release includes two new experimental features to try out, improvements to accessibility rules, and more.
Astro 4.1
Astro 4.1, our first release of the new year, is here! This release includes new accessibility audit rules, an extended `client:visible` directive, and more.
What's new in Astro - December 2023
December: last month of the year, a time to reflect on all the amazing things we've shipped, including Astro 4.0!
No More Bottlenecks
How Thinkmill made their website so easy to work with that total repo contributors increased from 1 to 15.
Slashing Development Costs
How WP Engine, the world’s largest managed WordPress hosting provider, went from spending most of their time managing their content to actually writing it.
Building a community of builders
Today, we launch our newest initiative to recognize people in our community who go above and beyond, including our very own maintainers.
Sentry: Our Official Monitoring Partner
Sentry is Astro's new official monitoring partner. To celebrate, we're featuring Spotlight, a rich debug overlay from Sentry.
Astro 4.0
Astro 4.0 is here! New APIs, faster builds, redesigned docs, and a unique new Dev Toolbar for Astro that enhances your local dev environment in new and exciting ways.
The $100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund
Astro — the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce — is giving away $100,000 to support other open-source projects in our ecosystem that improve the lives of Astro users everywhere, every day.
What's new in Astro - November 2023
November: the month of migrating the Astro Docs to Starlight, 3 Starlight minor releases, new view transition events and more! Read more about what's new in Astro this month.
Astro 4.0 Beta Release
The first Astro 4.0 beta release is now available for you to try out in any existing Astro project! Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming Astro 4.
Astro 3.5: i18n Routing
Astro 3.5 is out! It includes experimental support for i18n routing, prefetch for speedier page loads, form support with ViewTransitions, image optimization improvements, and more.
What's new in Astro - October 2023
Another busy month in Astro! From Hacktoberfest to releasing Page Partials. Read up on everything that happened this month in the Astro universe.
Astro 3.4: Page Partials
Astro 3.4 is now released with support for page partials, improved image optimization performance, and an early preview of a new dev overlay.
Web Pages in Half The Time
How Microsoft, a household name, made large performance gains using Astro for their Fluent 2 design system website.
Astro 3.3: Picture component
Astro 3.3 is out with a brand new, experimental Picture component, improved compatibility for syntax highlighting, and package provenance.
Astro @ ViteConf 2023
See you at ViteConf! Hear from members of the Astro core team, alongside an amazing lineup of projects from the Vite ecosystem.
Astro 3.2: View Transitions improvements
Astro 3.2 is out with several improvements to View Transitions, including the ability to control the history stack, and a JavaScript navigation API
How Astro does i18n
Leading open-source documentation with and for an international community.
Astro 3.0
30% faster and more powerful than ever, Astro 3.0 is here! Includes new features and enhancements around View Transitions, Image Optimization, Fast Refresh JSX and more.
Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner
Vercel is Astro's new official hosting partner. To celebrate, we're launching new features for Astro users who deploy to Vercel's frontend cloud.
Release Content Faster
How Firebase, a Google-backed company, used Astro to improve their blog performance by 71%.
Astro 2.10: Persistent State in View Transitions
Persistent UI in View Transitions and our first look at Astro 3.0
Astro 2.9: View Transitions (experimental)
Astro 2.9 is out with experimental support for View Transitions, allowing smooth page transitions.
Content for Everyone
How an AI content company used Astro and Netlify's on-demand builders to enable users to share their generated blog posts with each other - all in one month.
Better Images in Astro
A new feature brings built-in image optimization to Astro. Coming in Astro 3.0, you can opt-in to try it yourself in today. Images in Astro have been completely redesigned with more features, faster performance, and a better end-user experience with automatic layout shift prevention.
Astro 2.6: Middleware
A handful of experimental features go stable in Astro 2.6 including middleware, hybrid SSR output mode, custom client directives, and CSS inlining. Experimental support for a new redirects API is also introduced.
Astro 2.5
Data collections • Hybrid rendering • Custom client directives • HTML minification • Parallelized rendering • Polymorphic type helper • More!
Astro 2.4
Stronger CSS scoping • Code component improvements • Middleware • CSS inlining • More!
Astro 2.2
CDN support for assets • image() schema helper API change • Much more!
CloudCannon announces official support for Astro
CloudCannon, a popular Git-based CMS for static site generators, has announced full support for Astro.
Astro 2.1
Introducing built-in image support • Markdoc integration • Watch mode for astro check • New TypeScript helpers and more!
2023 Web Framework Performance Report
A look at how different web frameworks perform in the real world in 2023. Based on real-world, production data from HTTP Archive and Google Chrome.
Welcome, World
Astro's new look is live! Learn all about our new brand including the design process, our new logo, typeface, color palette, and mascot.
WebStorm announces official support for Astro
WebStorm, the popular IDE for Javascript by JetBrains, has announced initial support for Astro. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, refactorings, navigation, intentions, code folding, Emmet support, and correct formatting.
Astro Community Awards 2022
The Astro Community Awards for 2022 have been announced! These awards recognize the Astro community members who went above and beyond the past year. Read more to find out who was recognized!
Unlock New Possibilities with Hybrid Rendering
New in Astro 2.0: Hybrid rendering unlocks the best of both worlds—choose between the performance of static pages or the full flexibility of server rendering for each page of your website.
Introducing Content Collections: Type-Safe Markdown in Astro 2.0
New in Astro 2.0: Content Collections deliver a better developer experience for working with local content like Markdown and MDX. Powered by TypeScript, your local content is now automatically typed and validated for you against a schema so that you never miss or misspell another frontmatter prop...
Astro 2.0
Astro 2.0 is here! Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX. Other release highlights include: Hybrid Rendering • Redesigned Error Overlays • Improved Dev Server and HMR • Vite 4.0 • A New Public Roadmap
Themes Catalog Updates
Announcing the new and improved themes catalog. Now with support for more detailed theme descriptions and paid themes.
Announcing the Astro Tutorial
Wrapping up Astro Docs week with our biggest Docs announcement to date: our first Astro Tutorial.
Hacktoberfest with Astro Docs
It’s Astro Docs week! See how we hacked Hacktoberfest to celebrate our awesome contributors this October.
Astro 1.5.0 Release
Introducing: Adapter support for astro preview • Node.js standalone mode • HMR improvements • New API route params
Astro @ ViteConf 2022
See you at ViteConf! We have a ton of speakers from Astro giving talks and appearing on panels, alongside an amazing lineup.
Astro 1.4.0 Release
Introducing: Astro.cookies • Strict dependency installation • Better control over style ordering • JSX in Vue components
Storyblok Becomes Astro's Official CMS Partner
We are happy to announce that Storyblok has become Astro’s exclusive CMS partner, donating $2,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro.
Astro Contributor Awards: September 2022 Edition
Every few months, we distribute 100% of our sponsorship funds for an entire month to the standout members of our community. These awards go to recognize the people who go above and beyond to improve Astro in some way, contributing inside and outside of our community.
Astro 1.0
Astro 1.0 is out now! Astro is a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro next-gen island architecture. Learn more about Astro 1.0 release, our new website, and what people are saying about Astro.
Astro 1.0 Release Update
Just announced: The Astro v1.0.0 release date has been pushed back to late July.
Vercel launches zero-configuration support for Astro
You can now deploy Astro projects to Vercel with ease.
Introducing The Astro Showcase
Explore beautiful community websites built with Astro.
The Astro 1.0 Hackathon is Here
4 weeks. Fully remote. 3 awesome Astro categories. $15,000 in prizes. What are you waiting for?
Astro Contributor Day
Happy Astro Contributor Day! Who are some of our awesome contributors? Where does Astro's sponsorship 💰 go? How does Astro give back to OSS? Lets get into it!
Astro Themes & Integrations
Introducing: a growing catalog of themes, components, and integrations to jumpstart your next Astro project.
Astro 1.0 Beta Release
The Astro 1.0 Beta is now available! This release marks the stabilization of all major APIs, with no more major breaking changes planned between now and the official v1.0 release.
Astro Beta Launch Week
incoming transmission // attention space cadets...
Astro 0.25 Release Notes
Introducing: a new integration system • a new "add" command • shiki syntax highlighting • improved CLI build output
Astro 0.23 Release Notes
Introducing: Dynamic file routes • Automatic XSS protection • two new component directives • vite 2.8 • and more!
Scaling Astro to 10,000+ Pages
A new experimental flag in Astro build enables building sites with tens of thousands of pages.
Announcing The Astro Technology Company
The Astro Technology Company has formed to support the Astro open source project and build a better platform for web developers everywhere.
Astro 0.21 Preview: Vite + WASM = ⚡️
Get a sneak preview of what is next for Astro, including our new Vite build engine and WASM-powered Go compiler.
Astro Demo Day September Edition
Astro September Demo Day was today and we had 4 amazing talks, including one with big announcements on the future direction of Astro.
Introducing the Astro REPL
The power of Astro, right in your browser.
Netlify Becomes Astro's Official Hosting Partner
We are happy to announce that Netlify has become Astro’s first corporate sponsor and exclusive hosting partner, donating $2,500 each month towards the ongoing open source maintenance and development of Astro.
Astro 0.19
Introducing: Next.js-inspired dynamic routing • Astro.resolve() • client:only components • translations • and more!
Astro 0.18 Release
Introducing: Responsive partial hydration • Solid.js support • Lit SSR support • Named slots • Global style support • and more!
Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.