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. Check out what's new!

• Astro 7.2 - experimental incremental static builds, background mode for astro preview, relative logger entrypoints, and more!

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

Announcing our new Project Steward, Astro co-founder Matthew Phillips!

Huge thanks to Fred, who previously held this role and helped guide the project to what it is today. It’s a big shift, and I’m grateful for the trust to carry it forward.

I’m looking forward to continuing to work with all of you, this community is what makes Astro great, and that’s not changing. If you have questions, feel free to ping me any time.

~ Matthew Phillips, Astro Project Steward

See Astro maintainers around the globe, or right in your living room!

• Kenji will be at Vue Fes Japan this October!
• ViteConf is back online for 2026, with talks by Fred Schott, Matthew Phillips, and Sarah Rainsberger.
• Join Astro Maintainers on September 5th in Wiesbaden at our Partner Agency Seibert's HQ for talks, demos, and exclusive swag! Visit the Astro Together FRA x Seibert event page for more details and to grab your spot!

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.

Partner Pulse

Find out what's new with our official partners this month:

• ImageKit now offers integration with Astro for seamless image and video optimization, transformation, and delivery. Optimized images and videos delivered in the right format for your user's device through their global CDN.
• The Rosey CloudCannon Connector is an open-source translation workflow for static sites, available as an Astro multilingual starter template with English, French, and German already configured.

Thanks to all of our official partners, sponsors, and individual contributors! Support Astro through out Open Collective to or consider partnering with us!

(And, see why we need your help to support the future of Astro).

Shout-outs

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

• @thelazylamaGit for taking care of CSS handling during HMR across several PRs. Thank you for contributing to Astro!

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Astro core maintainer Matthew Phillips shares how we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero.

2. [Tool] astro-seo-audit by @namanlabc lets you score Astro SEO after every build with whole-site and single-page audits, regression gates, an interactive HTML dashboard, and SARIF.

3. [Article] TinaCMS now uses Astro by default for their starter templates, so Harky migrated. See how they did it, and what they gained.

4. [Video] Hear 3 reasons why Astro is the fastest framework in 2026 from Finn Dollimore.

5. [Article] Flavio Copes explains How Astro is built, following one page from its .astro file to the final HTML in dist.

6. [Tool] - astro-svg-lens by @noah4520 is an Astro Dev Toolbar app for previewing and copying SVG asset imports.

7. [Article] Kate Bartolo experiments with rendering remote content in Astro using React components, then built astro-mdx-remote to let you render remote MDX content in Astro with server-rendered, interactive React islands.

8. [Tool] at-astro by @chrisvander is an Astro integration for the AT Protocol, implementing OAuth flow and publishing an authenticated client to fetch and mutate records.

9. [Video] Christos Soulaki presents Astro for Webflow developers (from start to deploy) to help move from one mental model to another.

10. [Tool] starlight-to-skills by @Hideoo turns Starlight documentation pages into reviewed, discoverable, and up-to-date agent skills.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Have you ever wanted to write an Astro component without making a whole new project? Try the new Astro Playground from Astro maintainer Emanuele Stoppa.

    Under the hood, every playground session spins up its own real Astro Compiler instance in a Dynamic Worker, so what you see is exactly what you'd get locally. Built with Svelte for the UI.

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

Now using Astro Starlight: Mircosoft Azure

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Delicious Reverie

The personal home of Benjamin Read on the web.

Weird Wide Web: sandwich maxxing

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

Cosmic Canvas: majed.art

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month: Retro TUI Portfolio

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
• 🦣 @[email protected] 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!