What's new in Astro - May 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

💼 Astro Jobs opens for business.
🦙 TinaCMS goes Astro by default, backed by community usage and demand.
🖼 ImageKit releases an Astro integration for real-time image & video resizing, automatic optimization, and file uploading.
🚀 Astro 7 alpha preview continues. Get an early jump on Vite 8 support, the stable Rust compiler, and more.

Latest releases

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

Astro 6.3 - Experimental advanced routing with Hono support, image redirect handling, and resilient island hydration.
Astro 6.4 - A new pluggable Markdown pipeline, a new Rust-based Markdown processor, and new Cloudflare helpers for advanced routing.
Starlight 0.39 - More flexible autogenerated sidebars, improved styling, and stronger multilingual docs support.

Astro Adopters

From Stripe to Express, from Formspree to Mistral AI, 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

Astro Core team member Florian Lefebvre appeared on The Not Boring Technical Writer podcast to share his journey in open source and talk about what it looks like to write and contribute to docs as a developer.

Welcome, @ocavue as our newest maintainer! We’re happy to have you aboard! 🚀

Shout-outs

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

@SaintSin for helping us keep our official Astro Showcase site listings up to date… using their own Astro Showcase CMS Inspector.

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Find out why Hans Martens now builds every website with Astro after trying it once, and five things he never wants to give up.
Learn how Arjun Nambiar didn’t want to use Medium, Ghost, or WordPress, so they built a globally distributed blog platform from scratch for ~$1/Month with Astro, Cloudflare, Turso, and motion-heavy frontend engineering with React islands.
Still haven’t updated to Astro 6 yet? Let Harshil walk you through A real-world breakdown of migrating from Astro 5 to Astro 6 (and, you might want to get on that soon…)

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

Migration Stories

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. 🛠

Astrobook: UI component playground that supports multiple frameworks, including React, Vue, Preact, Svelte, Solid, Lit, and Astro. It offers a unified environment to develop, test, and showcase components.
@hoangyell/gallery: Astro image gallery with lightbox, pyramid multi-row layout, and accessible controls.
@brandon_m_behring/book-scaffold-astro: Astro 6 + MDX toolkit for long-form technical books.
@scale.digital/astro-bun: A native Bun adapter for Astro 6 — runs SSR, hybrid, and static sites directly on Bun.serve
astro-jsonfeed: Generate a JSON Feed for your Astro site.
astro-oembed: Embed any URL in your Astro site using the oEmbed protocol.
eminence-astro-suite: Astro components and integration for managing page head, metadata, social sharing, icons, and SEO outputs.
astro-lang-i18n: 📦️ Smart multi-dimensional routing for Astro i18n projects.
astro-nice-asset-filenames: Astro integration for short, readable asset URLs.
astro-headers-file: Astro integration that uses your existing configuration to write a static headers file for platforms like Cloudflare Pages, Netlify and Vercel, and others.
@dallay/astro-icon: A community-maintained fork of astro-icon by Nate Moore, updated for Astro v6.x and Cloudflare Workers compatibility.
@develjet/astro-icon: A lightweight Iconify integration for Astro with support for local SVG icons.
@erfianugrah/astro-image-hq: High-quality image service for Astro: encoder routing across avifenc, NVENC, and sharp with content-aware shadow detection.
@mannisto/astro-masonry: A masonry layout component for Astro.
@mgasme/elu: Composable Astro select component. Single, multi, searchable, grouped. Zero runtime dependencies.
@northsoon/phosphor-icons-astro: Phosphor icons as fully-typed Astro components — size, weight, color, mirrored and aria-label props out of the box.
@rafters/astro-data: Loader and action contracts for Astro 6 sites.
@rgglez/astro-aside: Astro aside/callout component with note, tip, caution, warning, and danger variants. Requires Tailwind CSS.
@rgglez/astro-downloadchecklist: Astro component that wraps a markdown task list and adds a CSV download button.
astro-bulma: Astro component library wrapping Bulma CSS
astro-hotspot: Astro image service: hotspot cropping (x/y or ‘70% 34%’) via Sharp’s extract+resize.
astro-recommends: Affiliate link cloaking for Astro. A static-site replacement for ThirstyAffiliates.
astro-site-shell: A CLI-style terminal widget for Astro sites. Navigate content through a pseudo shell interface.
ezqr-astro: Astro component that embeds the EZQR free QR code generator on your site.

CMS/text editors

WebcoreUI CMS: A CMS built for Astro with WebcoreUI. Includes a visual block builder, flexible content modeling, and a DB layer that just works.
@vulsecms/core: Astro-native headless CMS for Cloudflare (D1, R2, Workers).
astro-blog-kit: A ready-to-use blog system for Astro with WordPress headless support, optional i18n, multiple layouts, and a comment system.

Content loaders

notion-loader: Astro Content Loader for Notion as a CMS. Fork of astro-notion/notion-astro-loader with Astro 6 compatibility patches.

astro-agent-annotate: Astro dev toolbar plugin: Alt+Click any element, annotate it, copy notes + source context to clipboard for AI agents.
astro-inspect-clip: Astro dev-toolbar app to inspect elements and copy source info + instructions to clipboard.

Astro integrations by and for other tools

@imagekit/astro: Astro SDK for ImageKit.io - optimized image & video delivery with transformations
@a1local/astro-adpages: Astro integration helpers for AdPages local SEO and landing-page QA.
@dualmark/astro: Astro integration for the Dualmark AEO framework.
@generative-dom/astro: Official Astro integration for Generative DOM.
@hover-dev/astro: Astro integration for Hover. Injects the floating chat widget into your Astro dev site and starts the local agent-driving service.
@love-rox/tcy-astro: Astro integration and <Tcy> component for Japanese tate-chu-yoko (縦中横) auto-wrap
@pico-intl-dev/astro: Astro integration for pico-intl - SSR-ready, zero-overhead i18n for Astro projects
@sudodevstudio/fastly-for-astro: Astro v6 adapter for Fastly Compute. Dynamic SSR, server islands, and KV-backed static assets with no app-code changes.
@unirate/astro: Astro integration for UniRate — build-time currency exchange rate snapshots, <Currency /> and <Rate /> components, and runtime conversion helpers.
astro-resend-router: Astro integration for using Resend as an email-based mailing list router.
astro-typekit: Astro-native font loading for Google Fonts and local font files.
astro-x402: Astro middleware integration for the x402 Payment Protocol.

Markdown, Text, and more

@philnash/astro-related-content: An Astro integration that generates semantically related content for Markdown and MDX sources.
@casoon/astro-site-files: Astro integration that generates robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, security.txt, and humans.txt at build time from typed configuration.
@jdevalk/astro-markdown-alternate: Astro integration that injects <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> into article pages at build time.
astro-mark-don: Astro integration that generates a .md version of every page at build time, optimized for LLM crawlers.
astro-md-content-negotiation: Astro integration that generates Markdown versions of every page at build time, enabling HTTP content negotiation.
astro-slop: The most complete and flexible Astro integration for LLMs and generating markdown versions of pages. Per-page .md siblings, llms.txt index, content negotiation, and link rel=alternate.
@rafters/astro-meta: Build-time artifacts for crawlers and LLMs on Astro 6: JSON-LD, llms.txt, robots, sitemap, OG images, and build-time GEO readability scoring.

Themes & Templates

Several Astro themes were updated to v6 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!