What's new in Astro - February 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

  • 📈 Astro adoption is up in the HTTP Archive results
    • 11.8% on mobile
    • 14.6% on desktop sites
  • 🏆 Astro shines in the 2025 State of JS:
    • #2 in usage (two years in a row)
    • #1 in interest (four years in a row)
    • #1 in satisfaction (three years in a row)
    • #1 in positivity (three years in a row)

Latest releases

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Pre-releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Check out what’s new!

  • Astro 5.18 - a new option to configure the maximum size of Astro Actions request bodies, and an X-Forwarded-Proto validation fix!
  • Astro 6.0-beta-17 - the latest beta release of Astro v6 and sneak peek of the v5 -> v6 upgrade guide draft with up-to-the-minute v6 docs, so you can feel free to try it!

Astro Adopters

From Aftonbladet to Mr. Beast/Salesforce, to the Mars Company to Fathom, to Mocha to Pokemon, some of the biggest names you know 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

Check out the Astro Luma calendar for upcoming appearances by our maintainers, such as:

Shout-outs

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

  • @tats-u for identifying and filing a detailed issue report, and then everyone who helped out with the crowd sourcing of testing and feedback from a wide range of devices in a tricky Starlight fonts PR to better handle CJK locales on Windows.

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

Case Studies

How-to Articles

Find these and all how-to articles from previous monthly blog posts at Astro Tips!

… and more!

  • SakKu provides an indepth comparison of Prefetch in Astro vs Next.js, covering the differences in design philosophy and approach. (Japanese)
  • See the verdict on Astro in Tool Friday, a weekly series where Matteo Lombardi reviews one tool he actually uses in his workflow that made his work better.

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

The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro. 🛠

  • AIS Logos Astro - An Astro integration for loading AI Safety organization logos.
  • Subfont - An Astro integration that subsets your font files so you get significantly smaller font sizes and faster loading speeds.
  • Astro Particle Image Viewer - An Astro component that displays images with a stunning WebGL particle animation effect using Three.js.
  • Astro Openring - A custom Astro content loader that combines multiple RSS/Atom feeds into a single collection. Mimics the behavior of openring / openring-rs, a tool for generating webrings.
  • Astro Bun Adapter - Astro adapter for Bun with optimized static file serving and ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration).
  • Astro Cache - Astro integration providing disk-backed SWR (stale-while-revalidate) and memo caching utilities powered by flat-cache and stale-while-revalidate-cache.
  • Astro Skills - Load and serve Agent Skills from your Astro site via well-known URIs.
  • 🌟 Starlight Announcement - A plugin to add custom announcements to your Starlight docs.
  • 🌟 Starlight Telescope - Quickly navigate to any page in your Starlight docs with fuzzy search and keyboard-first navigation.
  • Astroscope Health - Kubernetes-style health probes integration for Astro.
  • Astro Clarity - Astro integration for Microsoft Clarity.
  • Entrolytics Astro SDK - Official Astro SDK for Entrolytics - first-party growth analytics for the edge.
  • Astro Maplibre-YAML - Astro components for creating interactive maps and scrollytelling experiences using YAML configuration.
  • Astro ONREZA Adapter - Adapter for deploying Astro applications on the ONREZA platform with support for SSR, hybrid mode, prerendering, and ISR.
  • VocaSync Astro - Turn your Astro blog posts into narrated audio with word-level synchronization.
  • Astro Font Loader - Loads fonts into astro build artifacts from custom fonts packages.
  • Astro ID Minifier - An Astro plugin to minify Astro custom data attributes and reduce build size.
  • Astro Relative URLs - This Astro integration transforms resource and page URLs from absolute to relative, making it so you can view the built website by simply opening its index.html in your browser.
  • Astro Routify - A high-performance API router for Astro using a Trie-based matcher.
  • Astro XMDX - An Astro integration for xmdx, a high-performance MDX compiler.
  • Astro Simple Critical CSS - An Astro integration that generates critical CSS using beasties and inlines it into the HTML.
  • Astro Contrast - WCAG color contrast analyzer for Astro components. Checks your .astro files for color contrast issues at build time, dev time, or on demand via CLI.
  • Astro Junction - Astro v5+ integration for Junction. First-class View Transitions support.
  • Astro Primitives - Astro primitives inspired by Radix UI Themes.
  • Playform Favicon - An Astro integration that brings favicon generation utilities to your Astro project.
  • CTRK Astro - An Astro integration for Yamaha Y-Trac CTRK telemetry parser with Vue.js components and composables.
  • Astro Markdown Runtime - Render Markdown at runtime in Astro using a custom AST pipeline that turns Markdown directives into real Astro components.
  • Zitadel Astro Auth - A comprehensive Auth.js integration for Astro applications with TypeScript support, framework-agnostic HTTP adapters, and role-based access control.
  • Astro Animations - Lightweight, zero-dependency, scroll-triggered animations and CSS scroll-linked effects for Astro.
  • Astro Linter - Astro integration that adds ESLint with pre-configured rules.
  • Pagefind Proxima - An Astro integration for Pagefind with a ready Search component.
  • Agent CMS - AI-agent-first headless CMS for Astro 6 + Cloudflare.
  • Astroscope Wormhole - Share dynamic server data with React islands and client scripts — typed, reactive.
  • Frontman Astro - Astro integration for Frontman — AI-powered development tools that let you edit your frontend from the browser.
  • Astro Sveltia CMS - Sveltia CMS integration for Astro.
  • Astro Metadata - Astro components for managing your page head — metadata, social sharing, favicons, and SEO.
  • Astro UI - A token-driven, class-based UI system for Astro.
  • Astro Responsive Privacy - Astro integration for Responsive Privacy — build-time PII protection for static sites. Filters content fields at build time based on a 5-level privacy taxonomy.
  • Astro Annotate - Visual annotation overlay for Astro staging sites. Clients annotate HTML elements directly in the browser. Annotations stored as structured JSON, readable by developers and LLMs.
  • Astro DID:WEB - An Astro integration for DID:WEB (DID Web) support. It allows you to easily integrate DID:WEB functionality into your Astro projects, enabling you to work with decentralized identifiers in a web context.
  • Astro Flyweb - A FlyWeb integration for Astro — auto-generate /.well-known/flyweb.json so AI agents can discover your structured content.
  • Astro Inline Review - A bridge between human reviewers and coding agents for Astro sites Browse your rendered site, select text, attach notes, and export location-aware Markdown that a coding agent (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) can act on immediately — no hunting through source files to explain where the problem is.
  • AstroJS TypeSafe Routes - Type-safe routing for Astro. Auto-generated route definitions, typed links, and URL builders.
  • Starwind UI - A collection of 45+ beautifully designed, animated, and accessible components built purely with Astro and vanilla JS.
  • Mannisto Astro i18n - A flexible alternative to Astro’s built-in i18n, with locale routing, detection, and translations for static and SSR sites.
  • Arisakit Astro i18n - A typesafe internationalization (i18n) library for Astro framework, providing easy localization and translation management for your Astro projects.
  • Otrodigital i18n Next - A complete internationalization module for Astro 5 static sites. Provides translated URL routing, content localization, multilingual markdown loading, and i18next-based translations.
  • Astro Markdown for Agents - An Astro integration that automatically serves Markdown to AI agents — including on Cloudflare’s free plan.
  • Astro HTML Validate - Astro integration that validates generated HTML with html-validate.
  • Astro Intl - Simple and type-safe internationalization system for Astro, inspired by next-intl.
  • Fast Comments Astro - A fast, full-featured live commenting widget for Astro, powered by FastComments.
  • Storybook Astro - The community-supported Storybook framework for Astro.
  • Hybrid Astro UI - UI elements for Astro using a hybrid model: zero-JS Astro + progressive enhancement with web components.
  • Astro Pro JetBrains plugin - A comprehensive IntelliJ plugin for Astro development with premium IDE support.

… and some built with Astro: utility sites from the last month that get the job done!

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added to 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!