Astro 6 is here! We completely rebuilt the Astro dev server and build pipeline onto a new, more powerful runtime-agnostic architecture.
Plus: New Fonts API, CSP support, an experimental new Rust compiler, and more...
astro.build/blog/astro-6...
standing on the shoulders of giants 🫡
😂
we suddenly feel very old…
A hazy wash of purples, pinks and blues against a dark background. Emerging from the fog, blurry but just distinguishable, is the number 6.0
4… 3… 2… 1…
6 days and counting…
Oops, forgot the alt text in our excitement, sorry.
The image is a screenshot of the new website for Pokémon Winds and Waves featuring Japanese text and a background of a player meeting Pokémon.
Built with Astro 🚀
Gotta catch 'em all!
www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/winds_wav...
Preview of a Starlight documentation website using the Vintage theme in both light and dark mode.
🎨 As we're getting closer to the release of Astro v6, let's take a trip down memory lane with a new Starlight theme which is heavily inspired by the timeless design of the legacy Astro documentation.
github.com/HiDeoo/starl...
Want to enjoy flawless visuals everywhere?
Check out ImageKit’s digital assets manager: imagekit.io
Astro hearts Image Kit
Please welcome ImageKit as Astro’s new Official Image Partner!
Thank you ImageKit for supporting our open source mission 💖
Go meet Astro core maintainer @mk.gg in Amsterdam next month!
Adoption The amount of origins using this technology over time. Latest data: January 2026 Geo: ALL Rank: ALL Technology: Astro Desktop 12,630 14.57% Mobile 21,456 11.77%
Chart of astro npm downloads. Pre-holiday peak is 925k downloads per week. Current 1.3M
The January HTTPArchive report is out and the increase in Astro adoption is jaw-dropping. Up 11.8% on mobile and 14.6% on desktop sites. This is backed up by our own telemetry and npm downloads too. Downloads up 40% from pre-holidays. Everyone's vibing Astro sites!
httparchive.org/reports/tech...
Astro Meetup Japan
I’m at Astro Meetup Japan! Great vibes already. Huge thanks to @jp-knj.bsky.social for organizing this 🙌
was it you?
Captain Planet “by our powers combined meme” showing the characters labelled: State of JS 2025, #1 interest, #1 satisfaction, #1 positivity, #2 usage. Astro is Captain Planet
State of JS 2025 chart showing rankings of meta frameworks by satisfaction. Astro is #1 for 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The State of JS is out. Astro is #1 meta-framework in developer satisfaction three years running.
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With our astronaut powers combined… 😤
Astro 5.17 is now available!
Move the dev toolbar, partition your cookies (we had to look it up too, no worries) and create the images of your dreams with cool new optimization options.
A very zoomed out screenshot of the draft of the Tips & Tools section of the Astro What's New monthly blog post showing a list with approximately 40 items.
OK, did everyone eat their Wheaties or what, because I'm compiling new integrations/plugins built for @astro.build this month and ... there are still 20 left to go in my inbox!
You can learn how to get started with CloudCannon and Astro in our docs:
docs.astro.build/en/guides/cm...
Thanks for sponsoring Astro, @cloudcannon.bsky.social!
You can join Netlify, Webflow, Cloudflare, Mux, and others in backing our open source contributors today.
See our latest post for more details:
If you enjoy Astro’s docs, Starlight, faster font loading, type-safe environment variables, our theme portal, Discord community, newsletter, or just love seeing bugs fixed, sponsors paid for all of that… and then some!
Astro has two ways to fund our open source work:
1. A company aligned with Astro’s vision (now Cloudflare 🎉)
2. An open source model of sponsors and partners
More than half of Astro’s core maintainers are community contributors, and sponsorships support more than you think!
We all know funding open source can be hard.
Let’s talk about how Astro is doing it in 2026! (And how you can help 👀)
If you like orange, we have the t-shirt for you!
The gap between dev and prod has never been smaller 🔬
astro.build/blog/astro-6...
Introducing the Astro 6.0 Beta.
- Redesigned dev server: run against the same runtime you deploy to
- First-class Cloudflare Workers support with workerd
- Stable Content Security Policy and Live Collections
It's never been a beta time to try Astro 👀
Shout out to Astro community member @fujino.dev for putting together this year’s edition 💜
Can you remember everything that happened last year?
No, us neither, so we wrote it down!
astro.build/blog/year-in...
