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It’s time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and just a small sample from our monthly What’s New? blog post.
Be sure to check out the whole post for everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀
Notable Releases
Astro 5.9 - experimental Content Security Policy (CSP) support, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more!
Astro 5.10 - responsive images, experimental live content collections, and more!
Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!
Astro Solstice Festival
Catch up on everything from the Astro Solstice Festival including:
- live streams with Astro core members and featured guests.
- the release of new Astro Mart swag shop with brand new items, and a limited edition summer 2025 collection that will have you beach ready.
- the Spirit of Astro design contest: see your designs come to life on Astro merch in the swag shop and win an exclusive prize pack!

The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
- [Article] Learn Why Astro is Your Go-To Framework for Content-Heavy Websites with Chris From Coding In Public.
- [Video] Build a Digital Product Store with Astro with a complete guided tour from Coding with Petipois.
- [Article] Let Cassidy Smith show you how to modify
<slot />
children from inside a wrapper component.
- [Tool] Astro llms.txt by 4hse is an Astro integration to generate AI‑friendly documentation files.
- [Article] Say Hallo Astro, Tschüss WordPress as Stefan Metze walks you step-by-step through a WordPress to Astro migration.
- [Tool] Stripe Astro loader by notrab lets you fetch data from the Stripe API and use it in Astro content collections.
- [Video] Chris Pennington asks, “Can AI code Astro?” and walks through building with Google’s Firebase Studio.
- [Article] Read about how DatoCMS builds Astro themes for multi-brand websites to launch and manage multiple websites efficiently.
- [Tool] BackLink by martrapp is a component that lets you flip the direction of the view transition animation when using Astro’s client router.
- [Article] See how Cassidy Williams generates individual open graph images in Astro for each blog post using Puppeteer for screenshotting.
- [Bonus: 🧑🚀] Astro core maintainer and Docs Lead Sarah Rainsberger was a guest on the Sustain OSS podcast for Maintainer Month 2025. Hear about her journey from Scrimba student to core OSS maintainer, wrangling and building community, using “evil devices” and low-tech tools like Chromebooks and Android tablets for coding, and of course, open source documentation!
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →

Theme of the Month - BlackHole

BlackHole: a clean and minimalist aesthetic with a cosmic style.
See more new themes and templates →
Now using Astro: Unilever

unilever.com
See more Astro adopters →
Weird Wide Web: ASCIIMoon

View the Moon’s daily phases in ASCII art at asciimoon.com
See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: Blinkpath

Blinkpath design studio
See more incredible sites built with Astro →

Did someone forward you this? Subscribe to this newsletter.

It’s time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and just a small sample from our monthly What’s New? blog post.
Be sure to check out the whole post for everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀
Notable Releases
Astro 5.9 - experimental Content Security Policy (CSP) support, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more!
Astro 5.10 - responsive images, experimental live content collections, and more!
Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!
Astro Solstice Festival
Catch up on everything from the Astro Solstice Festival including:
- live streams with Astro core members and featured guests.
- the release of new Astro Mart swag shop with brand new items, and a limited edition summer 2025 collection that will have you beach ready.
- the Spirit of Astro design contest: see your designs come to life on Astro merch in the swag shop and win an exclusive prize pack!

The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
- [Article] Learn Why Astro is Your Go-To Framework for Content-Heavy Websites with Chris From Coding In Public.
- [Video] Build a Digital Product Store with Astro with a complete guided tour from Coding with Petipois.
- [Article] Let Cassidy Smith show you how to modify
<slot />
children from inside a wrapper component.
- [Tool] Astro llms.txt by 4hse is an Astro integration to generate AI‑friendly documentation files.
- [Article] Say Hallo Astro, Tschüss WordPress as Stefan Metze walks you step-by-step through a WordPress to Astro migration.
- [Tool] Stripe Astro loader by notrab lets you fetch data from the Stripe API and use it in Astro content collections.
- [Video] Chris Pennington asks, “Can AI code Astro?” and walks through building with Google’s Firebase Studio.
- [Article] Read about how DatoCMS builds Astro themes for multi-brand websites to launch and manage multiple websites efficiently.
- [Tool] BackLink by martrapp is a component that lets you flip the direction of the view transition animation when using Astro’s client router.
- [Article] See how Cassidy Williams generates individual open graph images in Astro for each blog post using Puppeteer for screenshotting.
- [Bonus: 🧑🚀] Astro core maintainer and Docs Lead Sarah Rainsberger was a guest on the Sustain OSS podcast for Maintainer Month 2025. Hear about her journey from Scrimba student to core OSS maintainer, wrangling and building community, using “evil devices” and low-tech tools like Chromebooks and Android tablets for coding, and of course, open source documentation!
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →

Theme of the Month - BlackHole

BlackHole: a clean and minimalist aesthetic with a cosmic style.
See more new themes and templates →
Now using Astro: Unilever

unilever.com
See more Astro adopters →
Weird Wide Web: ASCIIMoon

View the Moon’s daily phases in ASCII art at asciimoon.com
See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: Blinkpath

Blinkpath design studio
See more incredible sites built with Astro →
