---
type: BlogPosting
title: "Astro 6.3: Experimental Advanced Routing with First-Class Hono"
description: "What's new in Astro 6.3: experimental advanced routing with Hono, SVG processing off by default, remote-image redirect handling, and a cookie consume() method."
resource: "https://yippy.com/t/5nrytug78vfq/"
locale: en
published: "2026-06-04T14:58:14.428Z"
timestamp: "2026-07-12T13:57:34.187Z"
tags:
  - "astro"
  - "coding"
  - "javascript"
  - "web-development"
---

# 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.

**Contents**

- What advanced routing actually changes
- SVG processing is off by default now
- Remote images can now follow redirects
- Cookies get a real consume() method

Full text: https://yippy.com/t/5nrytug78vfq/