It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including our biggest release yet: Astro v5.0 beta!
Notable Releases
- Astro 5.0 beta was released in September! See the v5 beta upgrade guide to try this early preview that brings stable Content Layer API, server islands, type-safe environment variables, and more!
- Starlight 0.28 brings next-level localization and on-demand rendering support, as well as comprehensive documentation for all of Starlight's built-in components.
Community Updates
- We awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @Fryuni, @ph1l, @dragomano, @ArmandPhilippot and @Nin3lee.
See all current and past winners on our Community site →
$100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update
Congratulations to the latest recipients of Astro’s ecosystem grants:
- 🖌 @hippotastic ($10,000) for work on the Expressive Code advanced syntax highlighter that powers many Astro websites, and is built-in to Starlight by default!
- 👜 @martrapp ($5,000) for work on VTBOT (View Transitions Bag of Tricks) exploring the bleeding edge of view transitions in Astro and the larger web platform, with pre-built components you can use, examples, demos and more!
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month around the internet:
- [Video] Get a first look at 5.0 beta with Jason Lengstorf and bholmesdev.
- [Article] The early results are in: Shattering Headless WordPress Build Times with Astro’s Content Layer API
- [Article] Read the retrospective Astro for documentation sites: Insights after 6 months
- [Tool] GitHub repo loader - A content collections loader for GitHub repos.
- [Article] Go deep in this 4-part series about creating the Nerd Streetwear Online Store - Built with Astro, Crystallize, and Stripe
- [Tool] Full dev UI - The Astro UI library to build content sites with prebuilt components and blocks.
- [Video] Learn all you ever wanted to know about Efficient Content Loading in Astro with Astro core maintainers Matthew Phillips and Matt Kane with Bryan Robinson from Hygraph.
- [Tool] Inox Tools: Astro Test Utils - Tooling for testing your own Astro Integrations and libraries.
- [Video] Have friends who still haven't tried Astro? Let Hitesh Choudhary explain why You deserve to know about Astro.
- [Tool] View Transitions Bag of Tricks: "Turn Signal" - Create distinct animations for forward and backward navigation.
- [Bonus: Content loaders!] A growing list of content collections loaders on GitHub for you to try!
See more articles, videos, and tools →
Theme of the Month - Astro 3D portfolio
See more new themes and templates →
Astro in the Wild: Swagger.io docs
See more new websites built with Astro →
That’s a wrap! 👋
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