What's new in Astro - January 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

🚀 The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare
⚗ v6 Beta announced
💰 Astro’s funding model explained
📈 Astro is a Top Trending GitHub Repository
⭐ Astro shows up in JavaScript Rising Stars 2025
🗓 Astro’s 2025 Year in Review

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 5.17 - configurable dev toolbar placement, support for partitioned cookies, powerful new image optimization options, and more!
Astro 6.0-beta-6 - the latest beta release of Astro v6 and sneak peek of the v5 -> v6 upgrade guide draft if you’re adventurous enough to try it.

Astro Adopters

From Harvard to Tages-Anzeiger, 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

Please join us in welcoming the newest Astro maintainer, Shinya Fujino ! You may recognize Shinya from their annual Astro “Year in Review” blog posts! Shinya contributes to docs and Starlight, and is a leader in the Japanese Astro community. We are excited to have you on board!

Shout-outs

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

@ocavue for all their help with v6 prep!
@rururux for contributing helpful PRs!
@pascal-brand38 for handling issues and updates to our integration directory!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Bryan Guffey shows how to bring your Astro blog to ATProto with astro-standard-site making your content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.
The verdict is in: “Performance: Actually, Genuinely Fast” now that Lewis Kori migrated From Gridsome to Astro: Rebuilding My Personal Site for the Next Phase.
Read the case study of Shift64 - Built with Astro who needed a framework that matched their philosophy: speed, flexibility, and no unnecessary bloat. Astro was the natural choice.
Looking to get the most out of your Starlight site, or just want inspiration? Awesome Starlight by truberryless-org can help take your docs to the next level!
One of our newest Japanese contributors Sakku blogged about their experience contributing translations to Astro Docs and reporting an issue via GitHub Discussions. These posts give you a great idea of what it’s like to contribute to Astro, and how to get started. Check out their full blog for even more posts about Astro! (Japanese).

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

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

… 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! 🍿

Live coding streams

Watch people build, experiment, and learn!

Tips & Tools

This month saw several new goodies for managing your content and UI:

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

Accessible Astro Launcher - An accessible and powerful launcher (command palette) for Astro websites, built with WCAG compliance and inclusive design principles.
Astro Embed Gist - A component for embedding files from GitHub Gists in Astro projects.
Astro Embed Mastodon - A component for embedding Mastodon posts in Astro projects.
Astro openring Loader - A custom Astro content loader that combines multiple RSS/Atom feeds into a single collection.
Astro abcjs - An Astro integration for creating ABC Music Notation components.
Astro Consent - A privacy-first, zero-dependency cookie consent banner for Astro projects — built for speed, compliance, and total visual control.
Astro Blog TUI Editor - A powerful, Vim-inspired Terminal User Interface (TUI) editor designed specifically for managing and editing Astro blog posts.
Astro Snowfall - A lightweight, performant canvas-based snowfall background animation component built with Astro and TypeScript.
Astro Swiper.js WebGL - Astro component for WebGL image transitions using displacement maps, powered by CurtainsJS and Swiper.js.
Astro Cache - Astro integration providing disk-backed caching utilities with stale-while-revalidate and memoization support.
Astro Bun Adapter - An Astro SSR adapter for Bun.serve.
🌟 Starlight dot md - A Starlight plugin that serves your docs (.md, .mdx, .mdoc) as raw Markdown for AI agents.
Expressive Code Typewriter - An Expressive Code plugin to add typewriter-style typing animations to your code blocks.
Astro Journey - An intuitive timeline component for Astro where entries are spaced based on actual time gaps. Perfect for portfolios, changelogs, and career journeys.
Astro Standard.site - Publish your Astro blog to the federated web. This package connects your blog to ATProto (the protocol behind Bluesky) using the Standard.site schema.
Statcounter Astro - The official Statcounter integration for Astro.
Astro Cloudflare Media - A development-time Astro integration for managing media uploads to Cloudflare (Stream, R2, Images).
Frontmatter Core - A build-time tool that scans Astro, Markdown and YAML and extracts a CMS-ready JSON content model from your project.
Astropub md - Render any Markdown content in Astro, optionally integrating with any existing configuration.
Astro Bottomsheet - Draggable bottom sheet / drawer component for Astro with TypeScript support. Perfect for creating mobile-friendly bottom drawers, side panels, or modal-like interfaces with smooth drag interactions.
Astro WebGL Hover - WebGL image hover effects for Astro with displacement transitions using Curtains.js and GSAP.
Starwind UI form builder - Build forms visually and export production-ready Astro code.
Astro SessionKit - Simple session access and route protection for Astro applications.
Astroscope i18n - i18n for Astro + React islands — automatic tree-shaking, parallel loading, any translation source.
Astro LLM Translator - An Astro integration that automatically translates your Markdown and MDX content for Astro & Starlight using LLMs.
Astro Liquid Glass - A design system for Astro inspired by Apple’s WWDC 2025 Liquid Glass aesthetic. Features glassmorphism effects, motion-responsive highlights, and iOS-style interactive components.
LLM Enhancements - An Astro integration that exposes pages as .md endpoints.
CribOps Astro - Deploy Astro sites to AWS with CribOps - S3, CloudFront, Lambda SSR, and Hive caching.
Astro i18next - An i18next solution for Astro with zero JS output and hot reload support.
Astro WebGL Transition Canvas - An Astro “drop-in” component for creating fluid and seamless page transitions using WebGL (Three.js) and Astro’s <ClientRouter />.
Vite Plugin Astro Prerender - A Vite plugin for Astro that prerenders components to static HTML and generates optimized CSS. Perfect for lazy-loading below-the-fold content to improve initial page load times.
Amplify Astro Adapter - AWS Amplify adapter for Astro with built-in cookie-based sessions.
Writenex Astro - Visual editor for Astro content collections - WYSIWYG editing for your Astro site.
Astro YM - A Yandex Metrika integration for Astro with full ClientRouter support.
Astro TokenKit - A powerful, type-safe API client for Astro with automatic token rotation, session management, and seamless context integration.
Shipyard - The complete toolkit for building stunning websites with Astro. A comprehensive collection of Astro integrations
Astro Broken Links Checker - An Astro integration that checks for broken links in your website during static build.
Astro Build Timestamp - A tiny Astro integration that writes the exact time a site was built into a static file during astro build.
Astro Canonical - Build-time canonical URL validation for Astro. Enforces site origin and trailing-slash rules and fails builds on SEO mistakes.
Astro Build Info - A minimal Astro integration that generates a machine-readable /build-info.json file at build time with build metadata.
Ember Astro - A plugin for astro.build for using Ember in astro components.
Wuchale - A framework-agnostic compile-time internationalization toolkit that automatically extracts and replaces translatable messages at build time.
Biel.ai Chatbot - An Astro integration for Biel.ai, adding AI-powered search and a documentation chatbot that answers technical questions directly from your docs.
Scalar Astro - An Astro integration to interact with the Scalar API.
Astro Build ID - A tiny, static-first Astro integration that writes a single build identifier file at build time.
Astro Fatsoma - A minimal, SSR-first Astro integration for fetching and normalising public event data from the Fatsoma API.
Astro Head Check - A lightweight Astro integration that validates essential HTML <head> metadata at build time.
Astro LLM - Deterministic, build-time content extraction for Astro sites, designed for LLMs that generates a single, clean, static context file from your built HTML.
Astro Legal - A static‑first Astro integration that scaffolds professional legal policy pages from a single config file.
Astro Humans - A static‑first Astro integration that generates a clean, human‑readable humans.txt file at build time.
Astro HTTP - Gives you full, explicit control over security, privacy, cache, and legacy HTTP headers using a single, auditable configuration file.
Astro No Crawl - Blocks search engines from crawling non-production Astro sites by generating a restrictive robots.txt at build time.
Astro No Email - A tiny, static-first Astro integration that protects email addresses from basic scrapers by converting them into HTML entities at build time.
Astro noindex - An Astro integration that automatically injects a <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> tag into generated HTML for non-production builds.
Astro Security - An Astro integration that deterministically generates an RFC 9116–compliant security.txt file at build time.
Astro Status - A tiny Astro integration that generates a machine-readable /status.json file at build time for static sites.
Astro Strip Whitespace - Strip inter-node whitespace (whitespace-only gaps between elements/expressions) in Astro and Svelte templates.
Astro Plugin Logseq - Turn Logseq into a headless CMS for your Astro blog content collections.
Gila Astro CSP - Astro 5+ integration for automatic SRI (Subresource Integrity) and CSP (Content-Security-Policy) generation with nginx support.
Intellitester Astro - An Astro integration for AutoTester - SSR and hydration testing for Astro applications.
🌟 Starlight Tags - A plugin to add tags to your Starlight docs for content organization and discovery.
Astro WP Integration - A WordPress integration for Astro with live loaders, static loaders, client API, and Gutenberg block support.
Starwind UI Theme Designer- Customize your Starwind UI theme with real-time preview.
Yalidine Astro - An Astro integration for the Yalidine SDK.
🌟 Starlight Telescope - A Starlight plugin to quickly navigate to any page in your Starlight docs with fuzzy search and keyboard-first navigation.

… 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! Submit your own themes in the Astro developer portal.

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 starting a brand new year with us!

Want to be in this post next month? Share your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in the #showcase channel in our Discord and/or tag us on social media!

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