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The Astro Post - April 2025

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a small sample from our monthly What's New? blog post.

Be sure to check out the whole post for everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀

Notable Releases

#15
April 30, 2025
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The Astro Post - March 2025

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a small sample from our monthly What's New? blog post.

Be sure to check out the whole post for everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀

Notable Releases

#14
March 31, 2025
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The Astro Post - February 2025

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀

Notable Releases

Astro 5.3 brings faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more!

#13
February 28, 2025
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The Astro Post - January 2025

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the release of Astro 5.2! 🚀

Notable Releases

#12
January 31, 2025
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The Astro Post - December 2024

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the release of Astro 5.0! 🚀

Notable Releases

#11
December 31, 2024
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The Astro Post - November 2024

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including Astro joining Bluesky! 🦋

Notable Releases

The best is yet to come!

#10
November 30, 2024
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The Astro Post - October 2024

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including Astro's results in The State of Frontend 2024

Notable Releases

  • Astro 5.0 beta has seen several releases this month: we're up to astro@5.0.0-beta.6! See the v5 beta upgrade guide to try this early preview that brings stable Content Layer API, server islands, type-safe environment variables, and more!
  • Of course, there's still more coming on the stable branch: Astro 4.16 launched with an option for concurrent builds, Shiki language aliases, bug fixes, and more!
#9
October 31, 2024
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The Astro Post - September 2024

Houston wearing a postal carrier hat and mail bag

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including our biggest release yet: Astro v5.0 beta!

Notable Releases

  • Astro 5.0 beta was released in September! See the v5 beta upgrade guide to try this early preview that brings stable Content Layer API, server islands, type-safe environment variables, and more!
  • Starlight 0.28 brings next-level localization and on-demand rendering support, as well as comprehensive documentation for all of Starlight's built-in components.
#8
September 30, 2024
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How is Astro like an onion?

It has layers... content layers!

Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the experimental release of the Content Layer API!

Notable Releases

  • Astro 4.13, 4.13, & 4.15 were all released in August! These releases brought you the experimental Content Layer API, stable Astro Actions, and more.
  • Starlight 0.26 is persisting… synced tab and sidebar scroll state across page navigations. There’s also a new LinkButton component.
  • Cloudinary Official SDK for Astro
  • Cloudflare’s new docs built with Starlight
  • PS: Astro officially joins Reddit
#7
August 31, 2024
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Control Your Environment (Before it Controls You!)

It's the 6th edition of the Astro monthly newsletter! Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including a brand new feature for managing environment variables in Astro!

— @FredKSchott

Notable Releases

#6
July 10, 2024
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The Future of Astro is...

It's the Astro monthly newsletter! Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from our first-ever in-person live event!

— FKS / @FredKSchott

Notable Releases

#5
June 19, 2024
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Astro Monthly Newsletter - April 2024

It's the Astro monthly newsletter! Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and just-announced details about a new upcoming IN-PERSON ASTRO EVENT at the end of May!

— FKS / @FredKSchott


April Highlights

#4
May 1, 2024
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The Astro Post - March 2024 edition

This month in Astro

A month full of releases, Astro Studio, Astro Developer Portal, and so much more. Let's dive in!

Updates from Mission Control

#3
March 31, 2024
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The Astro Post - February 2024 edition

This month in Astro

Welcome to our second email edition of "This Month in Astro!". Let's dive into the update:

Updates from Mission Control

#2
February 29, 2024
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The Astro Post - January 2024 edition

This month in Astro

Welcome to our very first email edition of "This Month in Astro!" 2023 was a huge year for Astro, and 2024 is already shaping up to be even bigger. Let's dive into the update:

Updates from Mission Control

#1
January 31, 2024
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