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

• Astro 6.0-alpha - an early alpha release of Astro v6 and sneak peek of the v5 -> v6 upgrade guide draft if you're adventurous enough to try it!

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Core maintainer Reuben Tier spoke about Astro Islands at React Advanced London 2025 and Navigating Islands of Interactivity is now available to the public!

What happens when you revisit code you've written... with someone who's never seen it before? The 3-hour live session Astro Refactoring with core maintainer Florian Lefebvre and guest refactorer J. B. Rainsberger is now available for rewatch on YouTube.

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Tool] Photosuite by achuanya is a simple yet feature-rich image integration that integrates lightbox, EXIF data, path resolution, and more into a single, zero-config package.

2. [Video] Watch Sagi Carmel on JavaScript Jabber explain why Astro is winning over developers for a terrific deep dive into both Astro's fundamentals and its advanced capabilities.

3. [Article] Learn why Astro outperformed Next.js for the Tasrie IT Services site rebuild.

4. [Tool] Astro Content Viewer from dofbi is a dev toolbar app for Astro that visualizes your content collections, Zod schemas, and associated variables.

5. [Article] See how Shuvo Anirban Roy succeeded Building a Motion-Heavy Astro + Svelte Portfolio (and Still Scoring 100/100 Lighthouse).

6. [Tool] Astro Grab by nickradford is a dev-only tool that helps you quickly locate and grab source code from your Astro components. Simply hold Cmd+G (Mac) or Ctrl+G (Windows/Linux) for one second, then click any element to copy its source snippet to your clipboard.

7. [Video] Content Island walks you through migrating dynamic routes from a static site with getStaticPaths() to routes that are server-rendered on demand.

8. [Tool] Leaflet Loader Astro by nulfrost includes both a build-time and live loader for fetching Leaflet document records from your personal data server to then be used on your Astro site.

9. [Article] Rishi Raj Jain walks through Implementing Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) in Astro with Cloudflare KV

10. [Tool] Astro Click to Source by invisible1988 is an Astro integration that enables click-to-source functionality during development. Hold Alt (or another modifier) and click any element to instantly open its source file in your editor at the exact line and column.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Two new videos from Chris Pennington this month on Astro content collections, including a sneak peek at experimental live content collections launching as a stable feature in Astro 6!

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

Now using Astro: Chrome CSS Wrapped 2025

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Release Image Generator

See more innovative, quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: De Maldè

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month - Astro Cartoon 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
• 🦣 @astro@webtoo.ls on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
• 💼 withastro on LinkedIn

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