It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and just 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

Astro 5.9 - experimental Content Security Policy (CSP) support, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more!

Astro 5.10 - responsive images, experimental live content collections, and more!

Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!

Astro Solstice Festival

Catch up on everything from the Astro Solstice Festival including:

• live streams with Astro core members and featured guests.
• the release of new Astro Mart swag shop with brand new items, and a limited edition summer 2025 collection that will have you beach ready.
• the Spirit of Astro design contest: see your designs come to life on Astro merch in the swag shop and win an exclusive prize pack!

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Learn Why Astro is Your Go-To Framework for Content-Heavy Websites with Chris From Coding In Public.
2. [Video] Build a Digital Product Store with Astro with a complete guided tour from Coding with Petipois.
3. [Article] Let Cassidy Smith show you how to modify <slot /> children from inside a wrapper component.
4. [Tool] Astro llms.txt by 4hse is an Astro integration to generate AI‑friendly documentation files.
5. [Article] Say Hallo Astro, Tschüss WordPress as Stefan Metze walks you step-by-step through a WordPress to Astro migration.
6. [Tool] Stripe Astro loader by notrab lets you fetch data from the Stripe API and use it in Astro content collections.
7. [Video] Chris Pennington asks, "Can AI code Astro?" and walks through building with Google's Firebase Studio.
8. [Article] Read about how DatoCMS builds Astro themes for multi-brand websites to launch and manage multiple websites efficiently.
9. [Tool] BackLink by martrapp is a component that lets you flip the direction of the view transition animation when using Astro’s client router.
10. [Article] See how Cassidy Williams generates individual open graph images in Astro for each blog post using Puppeteer for screenshotting.
11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Astro core maintainer and Docs Lead Sarah Rainsberger was a guest on the Sustain OSS podcast for Maintainer Month 2025. Hear about her journey from Scrimba student to core OSS maintainer, wrangling and building community, using "evil devices" and low-tech tools like Chromebooks and Android tablets for coding, and of course, open source documentation!

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

Theme of the Month - BlackHole

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Astro: Unilever

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: ASCIIMoon

See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Blinkpath

See more incredible sites built with Astro →

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

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