What’s new in Astro - June 2026

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

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Astro Adopters
Weird Wide Web
Cosmic Canvas
Community updates
Reading List
Watch Party
Tips & Tools
Themes & Templates
Site Showcase
Starlight in the wild

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

Latest releases

Major releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Please check the changelogs carefully and follow any upgrade advice. Check out what’s new!

Astro 7 - Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, and more!
Starlight 0.41 - Astro 7 support including default Sätteri support. (Astro 6 is not supported in this version.)

Astro Adopters

From Mattel to Garmin, 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

After a successful event in London, 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!

https://go.seibert.group/astro-together-fra-seibert-2026

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

Shout-outs

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

@ld-web for contributing helpful translation reviews with such care and dedication… in multiple languages! Thank you for being a valued member of our i18n-crew!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

🏫 Jad Joubran explains why they chose Astro for teaching APIs at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

🐧 See why TTFP (Time to first penguin) was the most important metric in launching a faster, leaner website under deadline pressure and how CloudCannon’s Astro Component Starter gave a New Zealand conservation organization’s dev team a running start.

♾ Phillipp describes deploying millions of static pages with Astro.

🛑 Syed Umair Ali wants you to stop defaulting to WordPress.

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

Migration Stories

Bye-bye WordPress - a move done in less than an hour with Claude Code.
Upgrading from Astro 3 to Astro 6, with Claude doing most of the work (Shhhh… nobody tell them…)

Case Studies

How-to Articles

… and more!

Watch Party

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

Astro on demand

Grab your popcorn and make a playlist of your faves! 🍿

Tips & Tools

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

@anubis609/astroanimate-core: Astro-native animation component library.
@arraypress/analytics-astro: Multi-provider analytics for Astro — Plausible, Cloudflare, Umami, Fathom, Simple, GoatCounter, GA4, and custom.
@arraypress/reveal-astro: View-transition-safe scroll-reveal for Astro — one IntersectionObserver adds a visible class as elements enter the viewport. Optional default animation CSS.
@casoon/astro-structured-data: An Astro integration to automatically generate structured data (JSON-LD) for articles, FAQs, products, recipes, videos, breadcrumbs, local businesses, events, and more.
@freshjuice/astro-webmcp: Astro integration that exposes your site content via WebMCP for AI agents.
@hevmind/ask: A heading-anchored, agentic search overlay for Astro docs sites.
@kckempf/astro-standard-site: Astro integration for standard.site - unified ATProto longform publishing.
@sjohansson/astro-components: A collection of modern, well-tested Astro components built with TypeScript, designed for Astro 5, 6, and 7 projects.
@stanniel/astro-pagefind: Add Pagefind to your Astro projects.
@tinloof/astro-prefetch: Next.js-style prefetching for Astro’s ClientRouter: in-memory cache, cursor-trajectory (proximity) prediction, and instant navigations.
@vskstudio/takt-astro: Astro integration for Takt privacy-friendly analytics.
@xingwangzhe/satteri-mermaid: Satteri MDAST plugin for Mermaid diagram detection and transformation.
@xingwangzhe/satteri-photoswipe: Satteri HAST plugin that wraps images with PhotoSwipe lightbox containers.
@xsynaptic/astro-build-logger: Astro integration that appends build duration, page count, and output size to a JSONL log file.
astro-bootstrap-icons: Bootstrap Icons for Astro.
astro-convex-better-auth: Astro plugin to have auth server-side.
astro-docs: A customizable documentation and book framework for Astro. Bring your own look.
astro-gamified-starter: Replace CAPTCHAs and visual puzzles with interactive, 3-second micro-games. Test the API and play the games in the live sandbox.
astro-password: Password protection middleware for Astro.
astro-scute: Simple and cute Standard.site integration for Astro.
astro-search: A search plugin for Astro that provides static search capabilities.
astro-sparkline: Tiny inline-SVG sparkline component for Astro. Zero runtime, zero dependencies, server-rendered.
astro-webmcp: Astro integration that exposes your site content via WebMCP for AI agents.

SEO/AEO

@arraypress/seo-astro: Idiomatic SEO component for Astro — title, canonical, Open Graph, Twitter, robots, hreflang, article meta + JSON-LD.
@rgglez/astro-seo: Astro component for SEO meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter cards, hreflang links, robots directives, and JSON-LD.
@thenewdynamic/astro-seo: Astro integration for SEO meta tags and structured data.
astro-aeo-image: Astro image service that embeds your <Image> alt text (and optional description/keywords) as standards XMP into the optimized output files so your dist/_astro assets are self-describing for Google Images and AI answer engines.

CMS/text editors

astro-block-cms: Reusable Astro integration and block renderer for CMS APIs with JSON blocks.

Markdown, Text, and more

astroprint: Astro integration for print-ready, Markdown-first documents with paged preview and PDF export.

Content loaders

@probablyduncan/astrena: A content loader that fetches blocks from an are.na channel.

astro-show-route-template-components: Dev-only Astro integration that injects HTML comments showing which route and template own each page and which .astro component produced each node.

Starlight

@wave-rf/astro-themed-mermaid: Build-time, theme-aware Mermaid diagrams for Astro / Starlight.
@wave-rf/starlight-llm-tools: Starlight plugin that adds LLM-friendly tooling to your docs site.

Astro integrations by and for other tools

@arpsw/astro-cms: Astro integration for the ARP (Laravel) CMS — shared API client, i18n/path resolution, and config wiring for ARP CMS sites.
@awesome.me/astro-lit: Use Lit components within Astro.
@brainwebuk/astro-payload-live-preview: Astro component for Payload CMS server-side Live Preview — refreshes your SSR routes when documents are saved in the admin panel.
@contentbit/astro: Astro renderer for Content Blocks: .astro components for rendering validated documents, with per-block component overrides.
@dropinblog/astro: DropInBlog rendered content for Astro projects.
@freshjuice/zest-astro: Astro integration for Zest cookie consent toolkit (GDPR/CCPA)
@workos/authkit-astro: Official WorkOS AuthKit SDK for Astro.
astro-unhead: Unhead.js middleware for Astro.
meno-astro: Meno-Astro: runtime helpers + the round-trippable .astro dialect (emit/parse) that lets Meno use Astro files as a source-of-truth format.
sitedrift: Visual review tool for comparing Astro dev previews against live production Cloudflare deployments. Compare DEV and LIVE with Split, Overlay/Diff, SEO, response deltas, notes, and MCP.

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

Bulk images to text: Drop multiple images at once for OCR in the browser.

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!