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.
Topic
Web Development
11 posts
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
