The Astro Blog

How Evil Martians moved from Gatsby to Astro in nine days without rewriting a single React component

Astro 7.3 adds an --ignore-lock flag for astro preview, passes Astro's runtime logger into custom image services and cache providers, and ships a finalize() helper for Cloudflare custom worker entrypoints.

Less JavaScript, and more JavaScript, all in one release.

August 2026 - Project Steward announcement, new Astro Playground, Astro Germany, and more!

Astro 7.2 adds experimental incremental static builds, an option to opt out of session support, background mode for astro preview, and relative logger entrypoints.

July 2026 - CodeTV GSAP Webflow contest, Astro Germany, and more!

Astro 7.1 is about more control: CSP, pagination, dev server, and content collections.

June 2026 - Astro 7, summer swag collection, Astro Germany meetup, and more!

Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.

Get ready for a summer of sport with our new personalizable merch.

May 2026 - A new Astro jobs board, TinaCMS makes Astro their default template, experimental advanced routing, and more!

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.

Get more flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support with the latest Starlight release.

Astro 6.3 introduces experimental advanced routing with Hono support, image redirect handling, resilient island hydration, and more.

April 2026 - Astro Together London, an alpha preview of Astro 7, and more!

Astro 6.2 introduces an experimental custom logger with JSON output, an SVG optimizer API, a new font file URL helper, and more.

March 2026 - Astro 6, CloudCannon CMS Partnership, Astro Together London, and more!

Astro 6.1 introduces codec-specific Sharp image defaults, advanced SmartyPants configuration, and i18n fallback routes for integrations.

Announcing CloudCannon as an official Astro partner, sponsoring $4,000 each month toward the ongoing open-source maintenance and development of Astro.

Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more.

February 2026 - Astro shines in the 2025 State of JS, adoption climbs according to HTTP Archive results, and more!

January 2026 - Astro joins Cloudflare, Astro v6 beta is released, and more!

Astro 5.17 brings configurable dev toolbar placement, support for partitioned cookies, and powerful new image optimization options.

Help make Astro a sustainable open source project by sponsoring our community maintainers.

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare!

A redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections.

Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, ecosystem growth, conference talks, and more!

December 2025 - Astro v6 alpha release, and more!

November 2025 - Astro powers Webflow's App Gen, Stainless launches a Starlight-powered docs platform, and more!

Astro 5.16 brings experimental SVG optimization with SVGO, interactive CLI shortcuts, and improved developer experience across the board.

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.

October 2025 - The future of Astro is revealed, Biome support arrives, Astro skyrockets in GitHub's Octoverse 2025, and more!

Astro 5.15 introduces Netlify skew protection, granular font preload filtering, and new adapter APIs for customizing fetch headers and assets.

New t-shirt designs and a pixel perfect Astro mug, designed with love by the Astro community.

September 2025 - Partnerships and sponsorships, 3 million npm downloads, State of JS survey, and more!

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!

Announcing Cloudflare as our new partner alongside their $150,000 donation to the Astro open source project.

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.

How CodeTV built a video streaming platform with Astro and Mux

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.

August 2025 - 1 million Astro VSCode extension installs, easier ways to contribute to Astro, and more!

Astro 5.13 ships experimental improvements to environment variable handling, support for Chrome DevTools workspaces, and more!

July 2025 - Build Astro with AI Tools, "The Future of Astro" at ViteConf 2025, and more!

Astro 5.12 ships TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, and improved Netlify adapter development experience!

Customize icons, attributes, and page slugs with the latest Starlight release.

Astro 5.11 ships more Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to disable streaming in the Node.js adapter, and more!

June 2025 - Astro Solstice Festival, new Astro Mart swag shop, Spirit of Astro design contest, and more!

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.

The planets have aligned to bring you the Astro Solstice Festival – a week-long celebration of all things Astro

It’s time to suit up, Astronaut!