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
Major releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Please check the changelogs carefully and follow any upgrade advice. Check out what's new!
- Astro 7 - Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, and more!
- Starlight 0.41 - Astro 7 support including default Sätteri support.
Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!
Community News
Astro Team News
After a successful event in London, Astro is coming to Germany! 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 as spaces are limited. We're looking forward to seeing you there!
Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.
Shout-outs
Think we don't notice you? Think again! This month, we'd like to give some 🌮 to:
@ld-webfor contributing helpful translation reviews with such care and dedication... in multiple languages! Thank you for being a valued member of ouri18n-crew!
See more about what's happening in the Astro community →
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
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[Article] Jad Joubran explains why they chose Astro for teaching APIs at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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[Tool] astro-gamified-starter from Oops Games wants you to replace CAPTCHAs and visual puzzles on your Astro site with interactive, 3-second micro-games. Test the API and play the games in the live sandbox.
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[Article] See why TTFP (Time to first penguin) was the most important metric in launching a faster, leaner website under deadline pressure and how CloudCannon's Astro Component Starter gave a New Zealand conservation organization's dev team a running start.
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[Video] Listen to Finn Dollimore, designer and no-code developer, explain why he's migrating from Webflow to full code with Astro.
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[Article] Phillipp describes deploying millions of static pages with Astro.
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[Tool] astro-aeo-image from Victor Sima is an Astro image service that embeds
<Image>alt text (and optional description/keywords) as XMP into the optimized output files so yourdist/_astroassets are self-describing for Google Images and AI answer engines. -
[Article] Learn how to ship a cookie banner in your Astro site without a framework from PolicyStack.
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[Tool] astroprint from Atomie CHEN is an Astro integration for print-ready, Markdown-first documents with paged preview and PDF export.
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[Article] See how David Bartalos built a Blazingly Fast Ecommerce Stack for Less Than a Coffee a Month — No Marketplace, No Platform Cut.
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[Tool] astro-show-route-template-components from Danny Englander is a dev-only Astro integration that injects HTML comments showing which route and template own each page and which .astro component produced each node.
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[Bonus: 🧑🚀] Check out the Astro Mart Summer 2026 collection and represent the Club Deportivo de Astronautas with your own customized home or away jersey. Just add your name and number to the back!
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Now using Astro: Mattel
Weird Wide Web: gregwolanski.com
Weird Wide Web: emailsthatchangedthe.world
See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: ToneBeam
See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →
Theme of the Month: Folderfolio
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
#showcasechannel!
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