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 5.15 - Netlify skew protection, granular font preload filtering, new adapter APIs, and more!

Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!

The Spirit of Astro design winners were announced, and these items from our swag shop community collection are available now. Thanks to everyone who submitted designs, and congrats to Christina, Hazim, and Louis!

Astro Ecosystem

October saw much of the Astro core team heading off to Amsterdam for ViteConf. Both Matt Kane and Sarah Rainsberger presented at the conference, and Matt's video about the future of Astro is already available online.

We turned that trip into an opportunity to have a short Astro working offsite which included a night with the community, hosted by Netlify.

Don't want to be the last one to know when things are happening? Subscribe to the new Astro Luma event calendar to track conferences, meetups, and other events around the Astroverse, and be sure to let Sarah know if you are hosting a meetup or giving a talk so we can help publicize your event, too!

Community News

Welcome to our newest Astro maintainer, Kenji Tomita. Thank you for your contributions, and welcome aboard!

And, a familiar face to many, we are excited that Armand Philippot has levelled up and is our newest Astro core maintainer.

Both Kenji and Armand prove that the Astro "docs translator to maintainer" pipeline is alive and well!

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Report] Astro is the 3rd-fastest growing language on GitHub according to GitHub's Octoverse 2025. (And in 2nd place? Typst - one of this month's Astro Adopters! Do we get to count that, too?)
2. [Video] The future of Astro as revealed by core maintainer Matt Kane at ViteConf2025.
3. [Article] Anthony Calzadilla said Goodbye WordPress. Hello Astro. in just three hours using only Claude Code and the Astro Docs MCP.
4. [Tool] Stay safe and use Chris Swithinbank's npm provenance overview Astro app to quickly see publishing security for any maintainer's npm packages.
5. [Article] Explore static vs. dynamic rendering in Astro and let Laur help you make the right choice for your UI.
6. [Tool] Install Hideoo's Starlight Links Visual Studio Code extension providing IntelliSense for links in Markdown and MDX files for Starlight documentation projects.
7. [Video] Watch Jason Lengstorf and Marcy Sutton Todd handle images in Astro in the latest version of the Learn with Jason Web Dev podcast.
8. [Tool] Astro Chatty GPT is simple chatbot API from unfolding-io for your Astro site. Powered by Upstash search, GPT-5 and AI-SDK.
9. [Article] View Transitions are now supported in all major browsers! Find out what it means for your Astro project from Martin and his Bag of Tricks.

10. [Tool] Having trouble choosing between Catppuccin, Flexoki, Rapide, and Ion? Find all your favourite community-built Starlight themes available at the Starlight themes demo site with a theme toggle for easy comparison! (Do we even need to say built by Hideoo?)

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Biome announces support for .astro files!

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

Now using Astro: Gemini CLI

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: JigsawKing

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

Cosmic Canvas: ASTRODITHER

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month - Mizu

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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