---
type: BlogPosting
title: "Starlight 0.39: Flexible Sidebars & Better Multilingual Docs"
description: "What changed in Starlight 0.39: combine autogenerated and manual sidebar links, x-default hreflang for multilingual docs, CJK text-autospace, and i18next v26."
resource: "https://yippy.com/t/ck73gfyn84zq/"
locale: en
published: "2026-06-04T14:58:17.080Z"
timestamp: "2026-07-12T13:56:49.017Z"
tags:
  - "astro"
  - "coding"
  - "javascript"
  - "web-development"
---

# 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.

**Contents**

- What changed in the Starlight 0.39 sidebar?
- Spacing fixes that lean on :has()
- Multilingual docs get three upgrades
- Should you update?

Full text: https://yippy.com/t/ck73gfyn84zq/