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 5.18 - a new option to configure the maximum size of Astro Actions request bodies, and an X-Forwarded-Proto validation fix!
• Astro 6.0-beta-17 - the latest beta release of Astro v6 and sneak peek of the v5 -> v6 upgrade guide draft with up-to-the-minute v6 docs, so you can feel free to try it!

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

Check out the Astro Luma calendar for upcoming appearances by our maintainers, such as:

• Core maintainer Matt Kane talking about the Future of Astro at VueJS Amsterdam
• Maintainer Kenji speaking about Island Architecture at v-tokyo (Vue.js) Meetup

Shout-outs

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

• @tats-u for identifying and filing a detailed issue report, and then everyone who helped out with the crowd sourcing of testing and feedback from a wide range of devices in a tricky Starlight fonts PR to better handle CJK locales on Windows.

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Survey] Astro shines in the 2025 State of JS:

   - #2 in usage (two years in a row)

   - #1 in interest (four years in a row)

   - #1 in satisfaction (three years in a row)

   - #1 in positivity (three years in a row)

2. [Article] Raymond Camden was curious how well Astro could handle a large amount of data, so he threw thousands of files at Astro and you won't believe what happened next...

3. [Video] Watch Adam Lowe explain what Astro is, what purpose it serves, and how it can be used in the context of the kinds of sites WordPress agencies build.

4. [Tool] Use VocaSync Astro by @sayedhfatimi to turn your Astro blog posts into narrated audio with word-level .

5. [Article] See how Starlight provided A Fresh Chapter for Homebox: New Docs, New Blog, Same Community-Driven Heart. Reinvented documentation, a better integration with their blog, and a renewed committment to community.

6. [Tool] Astro Contrast by @ivanalbizu is a WCAG color contrast analyzer for Astro components. Check your .astro files for color contrast issues at build time, dev time, or on demand via CLI.

7. [Video] Hear Astro core maintainer Chris Swithinbank describe Astro's open source governance and funding model while explaining that Astro isn't (Just) Cloudflare in an interview with Edoardo Dusi.

8. [Tool] Storybook Astro is the community-supported Storybook framework for Astro.

9. [Article] Florian Riquelme guides you through SEO for Astro sites - what really matters.

10. [Tool] Astro Pro JetBrains plugin by Jetplugins is a comprehensive IntelliJ plugin for Astro development with premium IDE support.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] You're in good company! Astro adoption is up according to the January HTTP Archive results with increases of origins tracked of 11.8% on mobile and 14.6% on desktop sites.

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

Now using Astro: Mr. Beast/Salesforce

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Ingrid Hartman

Weird Wide Web: GitHub Downfall

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

Cosmic Canvas: Apotos

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month - Starlight Vintage

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

Want to be featured in next month's newsletter? Submit or share your sites, themes, articles, videos, integrations, and more:

• ⭐ 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!