October 2024 - The State of Frontend 2024, Astro Cloudinary, and more!

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.

September 2024 - Beta 5.0, Astro Storefront, $100,000 Ecosystem Fund update, and more!

An overview of some of the early and promising loaders for Astro's Content Layer.

We are excited to announce Hygraph as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer.

We are happy to announce Cloudinary as a launch partner for the Astro Content Layer API.

We are excited to announce Storyblok as a launch partner for Astro Content Layer.

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.

Meet the latest Starlight features: i18next, on-demand rendering support, sidebar persistence, smart tabs, and more for your docs.

The first beta for Astro 5.0 beta is now available for you to try!

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 grants.

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.

August 2024 - Content Layer API (experimental), Astro Actions, and more!

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 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 is now available! This release includes stabilized experimental features, logging improvements, and more.

July 2024 - Server islands, Netlify partnership, and more!

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.

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.

June 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together!

Astro 4.11 is out with custom 500 page improvements and Shiki transformers in the Code component.

A look back at our meetup in Montreal

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.

Part two of our series on The Future of Astro, covering our plans for the next evolution of content management in Astro.

Part one of our series on The Future of Astro. Browser-native page transitions are now possible with zero JavaScript required.

Astro 4.10 is out with experimental type-safe environment variables, as well as enhancements to the Container API and Rewrites.

Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development

May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together!

Astro 4.9 is now available! This release includes the long-awaited Container API, stabilized experimental features, and more.

Astro 4.8 is here! This release includes experimental support for Astro actions and request rewriting, performance improvements, and more.

April 2024 - Passing 10,000,000 downloads on NPM, getting together in Montreal, and more!

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 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.

March 2024 - Astro DB, Astro Developer Portal and so much more

A retrospective of how Astro migrated more than 500 test suites from Mocha to Node.js test runner.

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.

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 is here! Astro DB is a fully managed SQL database designed exclusively for Astro. It is fast, lightweight, and ridiculously easy-to-use.

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!

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.

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day!

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 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.

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 is out now! This release includes two new experimental features to try out, improvements to accessibility rules, and more.

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.

December: last month of the year, a time to reflect on all the amazing things we've shipped, including Astro 4.0!

How Thinkmill Reduced Dependencies on Senior Developers with Astro

Today, we launch our newest initiative to recognize people in our community who go above and beyond, including our very own maintainers.

How WP Engine Lowered Development Costs by Over 50% with Astro’s Starlight

Sentry is Astro's new official monitoring partner. To celebrate, we're featuring Spotlight, a rich debug overlay from Sentry.

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.

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.

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.

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 is out! It includes experimental support for i18n routing, prefetch for speedier page loads, form support with ViewTransitions, image optimization improvements, and more.

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 is now released with support for page partials, improved image optimization performance, and an early preview of a new dev overlay.

Why Microsoft Chose Astro to Build Their Fluent 2 Design System Website

Astro 3.3 is out with a brand new, experimental Picture component, improved compatibility for syntax highlighting, and package provenance.

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 is out with several improvements to View Transitions, including the ability to control the history stack, and a JavaScript navigation API

Leading open-source documentation with and for an international community.

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 is Astro's new official hosting partner. To celebrate, we're launching new features for Astro users who deploy to Vercel's frontend cloud.

How Firebase Cut Blog Publishing From Hours to Minutes with Astro

Persistent UI in View Transitions and our first look at Astro 3.0

Astro 2.9 is out with experimental support for View Transitions, allowing smooth page transitions.

How Astro Helped Contenda Build a Content-Sharing Platform in One Month

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.

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.

Data collections • Hybrid rendering • Custom client directives • HTML minification • Parallelized rendering • Polymorphic type helper • More!

Stronger CSS scoping • Code component improvements • Middleware • CSS inlining • More!

CDN support for assets • image() schema helper API change • Much more!

CloudCannon, a popular Git-based CMS for static site generators, has announced full support for Astro.

Introducing built-in image support • Markdoc integration • Watch mode for astro check • New TypeScript helpers and more!

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.

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, 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.

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!

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.

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 property name again.

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

Announcing the new and improved themes catalog. Now with support for more detailed theme descriptions and paid themes.

Wrapping up Astro Docs week with our biggest Docs announcement to date: our first Astro Tutorial.

It’s Astro Docs week! See how we hacked Hacktoberfest to celebrate our awesome contributors this October.

Introducing: Adapter support for astro preview • Node.js standalone mode • HMR improvements • New API route params

See you at ViteConf! We have a ton of speakers from Astro giving talks and appearing on panels, alongside an amazing lineup.

Introducing: Astro.cookies • Strict dependency installation • Better control over style ordering • JSX in Vue components

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.

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 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.

Just announced: The Astro v1.0.0 release date has been pushed back to late July.

You can now deploy Astro projects to Vercel with ease.

Announcing support for the new Netlify Edge Functions platform

4 weeks. Fully remote. 3 awesome Astro categories. $15,000 in prizes. What are you waiting for?

Explore beautiful community websites built with Astro.

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!

Introducing: a growing catalog of themes, components, and integrations to jumpstart your next Astro project.

Announcing experimental support for server-side rendering in Astro

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.

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Introducing: a new integration system • a new "add" command • shiki syntax highlighting • improved CLI build output

Introducing: Dynamic file routes • Automatic XSS protection • two new component directives • vite 2.8 • and more!

A new experimental flag in Astro build enables building sites with tens of thousands of pages.

The Astro Technology Company has formed to support the Astro open source project and build a better platform for web developers everywhere.

Astro v0.21.0 is finally here!

Get a sneak preview of what is next for Astro, including our new Vite build engine and WASM-powered Go compiler.

Astro September Demo Day was today and we had 4 amazing talks, including one with big announcements on the future direction of Astro.

The power of Astro, right in your browser.

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.

Introducing: Next.js-inspired dynamic routing • Astro.resolve() • client:only components • translations • and more!

Introducing: Responsive partial hydration • Solid.js support • Lit SSR support • Named slots • Global style support • and more!

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.