The Astro Blog

Discover the latest news from 12 months of Starlight development

May 2024 - Celebrating Astro, together!

Astro 4.9 is now available!

Astro 4.8 is here!

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

Astro 4.7 is out now!

Astro 4.6 is here!

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.

Today, we’re launching the Astro Developer Portal, a platform where theme authors can submit, manage, and promote their themes built for Astro.

Yesterday we launched a fully managed SQL database service designed exclusively for the Astro web framework.

Astro DB is here!

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.

Astro 4.5 is out!

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day!

Astro 4.4 is now available!

Astro 4.3 is out now!

2023 was a huge year for Astro, and 2024 is already shaping up to be even bigger.

Astro 4.2 is out now!

Astro 4.1, our first release of the new year, is here!

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

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

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

Sentry is Astro's new official monitoring partner.

Astro 4.0 is here!

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!

The first Astro 4.0 beta release is now available for you to try out in any existing Astro project!

Astro 3.5 is out!

Another busy month in Astro!

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!

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!

Vercel is Astro's new official hosting partner.

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.

A handful of experimental features go stable in Astro 2.6 including middleware, hybrid SSR output mode, custom client directives, and CSS inlining.

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!