Astro
Astro framework delivers feature releases, performance enhancements, and tooling updates. Details on Starlight integration, build speed improvements.
The Astro section tracks release activity for this web framework focused on content-heavy sites, following version updates, new features, and changes to its build pipeline. Coverage explains what each release adds in terms of rendering options, developer tooling, and integration support.
Articles also follow the framework's documentation-focused starter tooling and related ecosystem projects, along with measured improvements in build speed and output performance across versions. Practical notes explain how upgrades affect existing projects and what to check before adopting a new release.
The collection is aimed at developers and technical readers who want a running summary of framework evolution without reading every changelog line by line.
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Astro 7: Rust Rewrite, Vite 8, Builds Up to 61% Faster
Astro 7 rebuilds its core in Rust, moves to Vite 8, and adds queued rendering — cutting real-world build times by 15 to 61 percent.
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Astro 6, Feature by Feature: Everything from 6.0 to 6.4
A complete map of Astro 6 across its five releases — the dev server, Cloudflare adapter, Fonts API, live collections, Advanced Routing, and the Sätteri pipeline.
- ArticleNews
Starlight 0.39: Flexible Sidebars & Better Multilingual Docs
Starlight 0.39 makes autogenerated sidebar links combinable within groups and sharpens multilingual docs with x-default links, CJK spacing, and i18next v26.
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What's New in Astro, May 2026: Starlight 0.39 Ships
May centers on Starlight 0.39 — combinable autogenerated sidebar links and stronger multilingual docs — plus the month's wider ecosystem changes.
- ArticleNews
What's New in Astro, April 2026: The Astro 7 Alpha Preview
April's headline was the Astro 7 alpha preview — an early build with Vite 8 and the Rust compiler promoted to defaults — alongside the month's tooling updates.
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What's New in Astro, March 2026: A Quiet Month, a Fresh Starlight
March brought no Astro framework release. The news was Starlight 0.38 — the official docs package updated for Astro 6 with cleaner headers and CJK fonts.
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Astro 6.4: Sätteri Brings Rust-Fast Markdown Builds
Astro 6.4 ships a swappable markdown.processor API and the Rust-based Sätteri pipeline for faster builds, plus a Cloudflare cf() routing helper.
- ArticleNews
Astro 6.3: Experimental Advanced Routing with First-Class Hono
Astro 6.3 opens the request flow with experimental Advanced Routing and first-class Hono support, plus external-image redirect handling and a new cookies API.
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Astro 6.2 — and the First Look at the Astro 7 Alpha
Astro 6.2 adds a pluggable SVG optimizer and JSON-output logging, and the first Astro 7 alpha arrives with Vite 8 and the Rust compiler as defaults.
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Astro 6.1: Sharper Image Defaults and Smoother View Transitions
Astro 6.1 sets Sharp codec defaults once in config, skips redundant view-transition animations on mobile, and exposes i18n fallback routes to integrations.
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Astro 6.0: Real Runtimes in Dev, Plus Fonts and Live Content
Astro 6.0 runs Workers, Bun, and Deno locally for true production parity, adds a built-in Fonts API and live content collections, and makes Node 22 the floor.