---
type: NewsArticle
title: "Astro 7: Rust Rewrite, Vite 8, Builds Up to 61% Faster"
description: "What's new in Astro 7: a Rust bundler through Vite 8, a native compiler, queued rendering and a stable cache — with builds 15 to 61 percent faster."
resource: "https://yippy.com/t/58pzm38rfxxa/"
locale: en
published: "2026-06-24T07:01:19.514Z"
timestamp: "2026-07-12T13:56:29.349Z"
tags:
  - "astro"
  - "javascript"
  - "software"
  - "web-development"
  - "websites"
translations:
  de: "https://yippy.com/t/38uprrvq76gk/"
entities:
  - "https://astro.build"
  - "https://vite.dev"
  - "https://www.rust-lang.org"
  - "https://rolldown.rs"
  - "https://hono.dev"
  - "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript"
---

# 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.

**Contents**

- A bundler rewritten in Rust
- The component compiler goes native
- Faster Markdown and content sites
- Rendering, now queued
- Full control over the request pipeline
- A stable cache, anywhere
- What breaks
- Upgrading

Full text: https://yippy.com/t/58pzm38rfxxa/