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

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Major releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Check out what's new!

• Astro 6.2 - Experimental custom logger with JSON output, an SVG optimizer API, a new font file URL helper, and more.
• Astro 7 alpha preview an early look at Vite 8 support, the stable Rust compiler, and more.

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

Several members of the core team met up for Astro Together London. Fred, Matt, Florian, Alex, and Chris provided behind-the-scenes talks and live demos... while the attendees received custom swag including freeze dried astronaut ice cream to enjoy during the talks.

Check out some photos on the blog post, and watch for the videos coming soon! Subscribe to the official Astro Luma calendar to be notified of future events.

Shout-outs

Think we don't notice you? Think again! This month, we'd like to give some 🌮 to:

• @ocavue for their dedicated effort migrating tests to Typescript!
• @trueberryless for their helpful Starlight contributions and support!

See more about what's happening in the Astro community →

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Florian van der Galiën thinks the “static site framework” label sells Astro short, and describes how to use Astro as a full-stack application framework.

2. [Tool] @fujocoded/astro-authproto adds ATproto authentication to your Astro site. Let your visitors to log into your website using their account on any ATproto services (like Bluesky).

3. [Article] See what happened when Alan Norbauer migrated from Next.js to Astro: A Page Size Comparison. All the numbers you want!

4. [Tool] astlide is an Astro-based slide presentation framework — like Slidev, but for the Astro ecosystem.

5. [Article] Hear from Andy Bell why Astro is Set.studio's preferred frontend platform.

6. [Tool] @dylmye/atproto-standard-site-astro-loader is an Astro loader for Standard Site documents (pckt.blog, leaflet.pub, etc.). Add your blog posts to your Astro site!

7. [Article] Read the case study about rebuilding dailybot.com for the agentic era: from a visual-editor CMS to Astro.

8. [Tool] Astro Cursor Plugin includes the official Astro Docs MCP, rules with best practices and coding standards, and several skills such as add integration, content collection, create component, docs lookup and migrate.

9. [Article] Go deep into the current state of view transitions options and see why Joost de Valk is dropping Astro's ClientRouter for web standards

10. [Tool] astro-opengraph is an integration to create and manage your Open Graph images, including a dev toolbar app to preview the image and the og meta tags on the page.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] SEO was on everyone's mind this month! Go through the Astro SEO Checklist 2026. 20 tactics ranked by impact from Neciu Dan. And Thomas Fellows deleted their CMS and SEO got easer.

    Luckily, Lucky Media has you covered if you need to migrate Next.js App Router SEO metadata to Astro. But, has search shifted to AEO for 2026? Petipois's latest video shows you how to build with Astro for AI search engines and AEO.

See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →

Now using Astro: Crunchyroll Ani-May 2026

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: DevRel(ish)

Weird Wide Web: Sleepdogs

See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Pixila

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month - Astro Scifi-UI

See more new themes and templates →

That’s a wrap! 👋

That's it for this month! For the full round up, with several more sites, articles, videos, tools, and themes, see our What's New in Astro monthly blog post!

Follow us on social media for even more good stuff from around the community:

• 🦋 @astro.build on Bluesky
• 🦣 @astro@webtoo.ls on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
• 💼 withastro on LinkedIn

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• ⭐ to the site showcase
• 🎨 to the theme catalogue
• 📦 with the proper keyword in your package.json
• 💬 on social media tagging the Astro account
• ... and of course, in our Discord #showcase channel!