What's new in Astro - August 2026

By
Sarah Rainsberger

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month, including:

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

Latest releases

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Check out what’s new!

  • Astro 7.2 - experimental incremental static builds, background mode for astro preview, relative logger entrypoints, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Evil Martians to Microsoft, some of the biggest sites from around the globe are using Astro!

See more companies using Astro in our site showcase, and explore Astro for corporate or enterprise use with one of our agency partners!

Weird Wide Web

Some sites from the last month that show off what you can do with Astro that are quirky, innovative, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun!

Cosmic Canvas

Didn’t think you could do that with Astro? These stunning sites with spectacular visuals and smooth animations prove you can!

Community

Astro Team News

Hey everyone 👋


I wanted to share some news: I’ve taken over as Project Steward of Astro.


Huge thanks to Fred, who previously held this role and helped guide the project to what it is today. It’s a big shift, and I’m grateful for the trust to carry it forward.


I’m looking forward to continuing to work with all of you, this community is what makes Astro great, and that’s not changing. If you have questions, feel free to ping me any time.

— Matthew Phillips, Project Steward of Astro

See Astro maintainers around the globe, and in your living room!

And it’s finally happening, 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 via the link below, as spaces are limited. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Sign up for Astro Together FRA x Seibert

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.

For you, from the team

There’s a new place for asking, searching (and answering!) Astro support questions. In addition to our Discord support forums, you can now visit our Community Support repo on GitHub and participate in the Discussion! Thanks Florian Lefebvre for kicking off this community project!

Have you ever wanted to write an Astro component without making a whole new project? Try the new Astro Playground from Emanuele Stoppa. Under the hood, every playground session spins up its own real Astro Compiler instance in a Dynamic Worker, so what you see is exactly what you’d get locally. Built with Svelte for the UI.

Around the ecosystem

Last month, Webflow and CodeTV issued a challenge: build with Astro, animate with GSAP, deploy to Webflow, and create a landing website that really lands!

Congratulations to the winning sites:

See these and even more amazing entries on the Hackathon recap!

Partner Pulse

Find out what’s new with our official partners this month:

  • ImageKit now offers integration with Astro for seamless image and video optimization, transformation, and delivery. Optimized images and videos delivered in the right format for your user’s device through their global CDN.
  • The Rosey CloudCannon Connector is an open-source translation workflow for static sites, available as an Astro multilingual starter template with English, French, and German already configured.

Thanks to all of our official partners, sponsors, and individual contributors! Want to contribute to the open source project yourself? Visit the Astro Open Collective page or consider partnering with us!

(And, see why we need your help to support the future of Astro).

Shout-outs

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

  • @thelazylamaGit for taking care of CSS handling during HMR across several PRs. Thank you for contributing to Astro!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Because you can never get tired of Astro, here’s even more community content!

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

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Watch Party

Be sure to follow Astro’s official YouTube channel for content from the team!

Astro on demand

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Tips & Tools

See some of the latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro. 🛠

  • @arraypress/behaviors-astro: Client-side behaviour modules for Astro storefronts — wishlist, header nav, modals, product gallery, count-up and drag-scroll. View-transition safe, zero dependencies, no styling opinions.
  • @aws-icons/astro: AWS Architecture Icons for Astro — SVG inlined at build time, zero client JS.
  • @datadeft/astro-sitemap: Astro integration that emits a single sitemap.xml derived from the pages actually built, excluding noindex, redirect, and 404 pages.
  • @devicons-pack/astro: Devicons for Astro — SVG inlined at build time, zero client JS.
  • @diegosalcedoromero/particle-background: A customizable particle background component for Astro 7.0.0.
  • @fabiensalles/deck: Astro integration for Reveal.js presentations with exercises, corrections, and PDF export.
  • @fluentui-emoji/astro: Fluent UI Emoji for Astro — SVG inlined at build time, zero client JS.
  • @iconmind/astro: Astro components for IconMind — 1,041 tree-shakeable icons for AI-era software (LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG).
  • @miyamo2/astro-image-placeholder: Blur/LQIP placeholders for Astro images, as an Image Service and a remark visitor.
  • @opacedev/astro-preferred-source: Add as Preferred Source Button & Popup for Google (SEO & AI Overviews) for Astro: integration, SSR-rendered button, deeplink fallback and ps-click instrumentation.
  • @puralex/astro-google-preferred-source: Astro integration and components for the Google Search preferred sources button.
  • @vdaluz/astro-inapp-escape: In-app-browser (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc) detection and escape for Astro sites - protects affiliate links that platforms prohibit from rendering in their own webviews.
  • @wojciechpiskorz/astroix: Dev-only Astro 7 integration — a visual builder for Content Collections content and repo-mapped CSS.
  • astro-affiliate-card: Astro integration for Amazon / Rakuten / Yahoo! affiliate product cards.
  • astro-cookie-consent: A tiny, dependency-free, GDPR compliant cookie consent banner and script-gating helper for Astro sites.
  • astro-styletrace: Astro integration that shows where a style came from and how far apart elements are, without opening DevTools.
  • astro-takumi-fork: Generate Open Graph images for your Astro site using Takumi.
  • astro-toc-smol: Generates TOC HTML from final rendered page at build and dev time.
  • astro-vite-cache-isolation: Isolate Vite optimizer caches by Astro command so concurrent workflows do not interfere.
  • astrosharp: Write the coded parts of Astro (components, loaders, actions, endpoints, middleware) in C#.
  • morphicons: Universal morphing for stroke-based icons with spring physics — zero runtime dependencies.
  • tasty-docs: Repository-native static documentation for Astro.

SEO/AEO

  • @arraypress/llms-txt-astro: /llms.txt for Astro — an idiomatic route helper plus the builder behind it. Generates and parses the llms.txt AI-discovery format. Zero dependencies.
  • @miyamo2/astro-jsonld: Astro integration for JSON-LD structured data: one site-wide identity, typed builders for the usual schema.org nodes, and a component that emits them safely.
  • @rankveo/astro: Run your rankveo blog on an Astro site. SEO, GEO and AEO content, served from your own domain.
  • astro-seo-audit: Score Astro SEO after every build with whole-site and single-page audits, regression gates, an interactive HTML dashboard, and SARIF.
  • astro-seo-complement: Typed SEO metadata, Schema.org builders, and safe JSON-LD tools for Astro.

CMS/text editors

  • @laikacms/astro: Astro integration for Laika CMS: Content Layer loaders for astro:content, live collections for runtime reads, and a dev-server JSON:API backed by a repository of your choice.
  • @malihub/git-headless-cms-astro: Astro Integration for git-headless-cms (Auto API route injection and components).
  • inline-core: A front-end editing system for static sites.

Markdown, Text, and more

  • @lancher-dev/jaad: Just Another Astro Docs. Turn a folder of markdown into a documentation site. An Astro integration.
  • @lancher-dev/jaamd: Just Another Astro Markdown. Add remark plugins, client-side enhancements and styles as a single Astro integration for Markdown content.
  • @treelight/plugin-astro: Astro integration for rendering code blocks with Treelight.
  • astro-content-links: Build-time contextual links and explainable related-content retrieval for Astro.
  • astro-join-line: Remove unwanted spaces after CJK punctuation across lines in Astro and MDX.

Content loaders

  • @arraypress/sanity-loader-astro: Astro Content Layer loader for Sanity — plug GROQ queries into defineCollection() with zero glue code.
  • @micacms/astro: Reads a Mica content repository as Astro Content Collections via the Content Layer API.
  • @miyamo2/astro-recommend-article: Astro content loader that adds vector-similarity-based article recommendations to your content collections, powered by Qdrant and OpenAI embeddings.
  • astro-arena: Astro content loaders for the Are.na v3 API

Dev toolbar apps

  • @heyupstart/astro-inline-editor: Dev-only inline content editor for Astro — edit tagged copy in the browser, save straight to JSON or static HTML.
  • @opacedev/astro-visual-editor: Astro Visual Editor for front-end text and SEO editing, section drag-and-drop, reviewed changes and validated source writes from the Dev Toolbar.
  • astro-svg-lens: Astro Dev Toolbar app for previewing and copying SVG asset imports.

Starlight

  • @mseep/starlight-mcp: Give your Astro or Starlight docs site an MCP server — search_docs, get_doc and list_docs over stateless streamable HTTP. Astro integration, pure fetch handler, and Cloudflare static-assets glue included.
  • @scalar/starlight: Scalar API Reference plugin for Astro Starlight.
  • starlight-ai-label: Starlight plugin to add EU AI Act-style AI content-disclosure badges to your docs pages.
  • starlight-pydocs: Python API reference documentation for Astro and Starlight, extracted with Griffe.
  • starlight-to-skills: Turn Starlight documentation pages into reviewed, discoverable, and up-to-date agent skills.

Astro integrations by and for other tools

  • @appwrite.io/cdn-for-astro: Route caching for Astro sites hosted on Appwrite.
  • @markup-carve/astro-carve: Astro integration for the Carve markup language - use .crv files as pages and imports, rendered to HTML via carve-js.
  • @miyamo2/astro-algolia-index: Astro integration that pushes your build’s records to an Algolia index, with an atomic replace-all reindex and a build-time record sink.
  • @obsidiary/astro: Astro integration for Obsidiary — point it at a vault directory and get a site.
  • @octanejs/astro: Use Octane components as Astro islands — SSR, hydration, and .tsrx/.tsx compilation via octane/compiler/vite.
  • @portabletext/astro: Render Portable Text with Astro.
  • @pictum/astro: Pictum asset components for Astro.
  • @taprootcms/studio: The Taproot CMS server as an Astro integration: admin panel, REST API, and delivery API.
  • @wrux/astro-datastar: Astro integration for Datastar (vendored v1.0.2 bundle) with server helpers and a replace-url plugin.
  • astro-archify: An Astro integration that renders Archify system diagrams (architecture, workflow, sequence, dataflow, lifecycle) from JSON IR code blocks at build time, with Archify’s renderer bundled in.
  • astro-cloudflare-access: An Astro integration for Cloudflare Access identity context.
  • astro-solid-next: Astro renderer integration for Solid 2.0 — SSR islands rendered with renderToStream and hydrated with the 2.0 runtime.
  • astro-swiper-zosei: Astro component for swiper, dedicated to slider / carousel / photo swiper / slide, including thumbnails.
  • at-astro: An Astro integration for the AT Protocol, implementing OAuth flow and publishing an authenticated client to fetch and mutate records.
  • conference-badge-generator: Native EmDash + Astro badge generator plugin.
  • stelstone: Astro integration that mounts the Stelstone admin under /admin during astro dev and exposes content helpers.

Themes & Templates

Several Astro themes were added or updated to v6 or v7 in the Astro theme catalogue this month. Get a jump start on a fresh new project by starting with a theme!

Showcase

Looking for even more inspiration? See all the community member websites submitted to the Astro showcase this month. Submit your site built with Astro!

Want your site to be included? Submit it to the Astro Showcase Site.

Starlight in the wild

It’s always exciting to stumble across more docs built with Starlight. Here’s what our community noticed this month:

Spot someone using Starlight for their docs? We want to know about it! Submit it to the Astro Showcase Site.

That’s a wrap! 👋

Thanks for spending another month with us!