Astro

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.

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.

Starlight 0.39 makes autogenerated sidebar links combinable within groups and sharpens multilingual docs with x-default links, CJK spacing, and i18next v26.

May centers on Starlight 0.39 — combinable autogenerated sidebar links and stronger multilingual docs — plus the month's wider ecosystem changes.

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.

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.

Astro 6.4 ships a swappable markdown.processor API and the Rust-based Sätteri pipeline for faster builds, plus a Cloudflare cf() routing helper.

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.

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.

Astro 6.1 sets Sharp codec defaults once in config, skips redundant view-transition animations on mobile, and exposes i18n fallback routes to integrations.

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.