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 6.3 - Experimental advanced routing with Hono support, image redirect handling, and resilient island hydration.
• Astro 6.4 - A new pluggable Markdown pipeline, a new Rust-based Markdown processor, and new Cloudflare helpers for advanced routing.
• Starlight 0.39 - More flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support.

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

Astro Core team member Florian Lefebvre appeared on The Not Boring Technical Writer podcast to share his journey in open source and talk about what it looks like to write and contribute to docs as a developer.

Welcome, @ocavue as our newest maintainer! We're happy to have you aboard! 🚀

Shout-outs

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

• @SaintSin for helping us keep our official Astro Showcase site listings up to date... using their own Astro Showcase CMS Inspector.

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] TinaCMS goes Astro by default, backed by community usage and demand.

2. [Tool] ImageKit released an Astro integration for real-time image & video resizing, automatic optimization, and file uploading.

3. [Article] Find out why Hans Martens now builds every website with Astro after trying it once, and five things he never wants to give up.

4. [Video] Hitesh Choudhary built their own WordPress with Astro and CloudCannon.

5. [Article] Michael Xymitoulias's NextJS Site Shipped 900 KB of JavaScript. Discover what replaced it after a migration to Astro.

6. [Tool] Astrobook by @ocavue is a UI component playground that supports multiple frameworks, including React, Vue, Preact, Svelte, Solid, Lit, and Astro. It offers a unified environment to develop, test, and showcase components.

7. [Article] See how Fraser McLean added Webmention support to their Astro site to display comments and likes from other websites.

8. [Tool] @philnash/astro-related-content is an Astro integration that generates semantically related content for Markdown and MDX sources.

9. [Article] Learn how Arjun Nambiar didn’t want to use Medium, Ghost, or WordPress, so they built a globally distributed blog platform from scratch for ~$1/Month with Astro, Cloudflare, Turso, and motion-heavy frontend engineering with React islands.

10. [Tool] @hoangyell/gallery is a friendly Astro image gallery born from years of running an image-heavy travel blog.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Still haven't updated to Astro 6 yet? Let Harshil walk you through A real-world breakdown of migrating from Astro 5 to Astro 6 (and, you might want to get on that soon... for no particular reason at all.)

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

Now using Astro: Express.js

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Main Coffee Lab

Weird Wide Web: Harper.surf

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

Cosmic Canvas: Rich Banks

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month: as-folio

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!