The Astro Post - October 2026

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and 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

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

• Astro 7.4 - a --timings flag that shows where your build spends its time, separate build and runtime image services, a notFound() handler for custom entrypoints, and two new experimental features: parallel prerendering and custom redirect pages.

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

October was the month for conferences! Cloudflare Connect, ViteConf, and Vue Fes Japan included several talks from Astro maintainers. Look for videos to be posted later!

Kenji: "The current state of the frontend toolchain, as seen through Astro and Rust"

Matthew Phillips: "Building a software factory: Driving Astro's Issues to zero"

Matt Kane: "EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents" and "Astro is the new WordPress"

Sarah Rainsberger: "Denied: What doesn't belong in your documentation"

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Partner Pulse

Find out what's new with our official partners and sponsors:

• Lucky Media shares an Astro tip: Stop hardcoding theme logic into components - use Data Attributes.

Thanks to all of our official partners, sponsors, and individual contributors! Support Astro through out Open Collective to or consider partnering with us!

(And, see why we need your help to support the future of Astro).

Shout-outs

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

• @Sakku for their helpful contributions including translations for Astro Docs and Starlight!

See more about what's happening in the Astro community →

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Miguel Fernandez migrated an ~800 page multi-language marketing website from Webflow to Astro in a single day, improved SEO/AEO dramatically, and allowed for faster changes through agents.

2. [Tool] astro-smart-links by @EveSunMaple lets you style internal, external, and broken links in your Markdown. Get a broken link report at the end of the build.

3. [Video] Timothy Ricks shows you how to convert any Website to Astro.

4. [Tool] starlight-codeblocks by ewels adds 27 features to the Expressive Code blocks of Starlight and Astro sites, like focus, annotation, inline callouts and code walkthroughs.

5. [Article] Learn how Mariana Bravo makes missing translations fail your Astro build to keep locales in sync on multilingual sites.

6. [Tool] domlamps by svey-xyz gives ordinary HTML the lighting of a top-down game. Elements have a height, some of them emit light, and everything else casts or passes soft shadows.

7. [Article] antvinni crunches the numbers (including costs) after moving Anastasiia's design portfolio from Adobe Portfolio to Astro. Same pages and the same look, up to 91% less to download, and a Lighthouse score of 100.

8. [Tool] ascii-rest by bas3line provides two components to add animated ascii art to an Astro page an Astro page: an animation or a text banner in big block letters.

9. [Video] Chris Good discusses the PHP issue and how Astro is a safer alternative to WordPress for your website.

10. [Article] webdecoy figures out who's crawling your Astro site.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Read about how Ryan Selden and Jack Hanford at Owner rebuilt their website infrastructure in Astro for speed to help local restaurants improve their online ordering experience, giving them 83% faster menu-page loads and more than 4% revenue increases:

Alexis Ohanian 🗽

@alexisohanian

Load the menu slower and people buy less food. Faster page = more revenue, and now there's real data on it. Owner is a 776 co and this is the kind of unglamorous infra work that actually moves the needle for these small businesses.

Owner

@owner

How we rebuilt our website infrastructure with @astrodotbuild and @Cloudflare, reduced menu-page loading time by 83%, and raised per-restaurant revenue by more than 4%. https://building.owner.com/project-speed

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See more articles, guides, videos, and case studies in our full blog post →

Now using Astro: Lonely Planet

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: iamcanturk.dev

Can Türk · Application security, software and Pixel Shorts

See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Senorit

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month: Spritz

See more new themes and templates →

That’s a wrap! 👋

That's it for this month! For the full round up, with several more sites, articles, videos, tools, and themes, see our What's New in Astro monthly blog post!

Follow us on social media for even more good stuff from around the community:

• 🦋 @astro.build on Bluesky
• 🦣 @[email protected] on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
• 💼 withastro on LinkedIn

Want to be featured in next month's newsletter? Submit or share your sites, themes, articles, videos, integrations, and more:

• ⭐ to the site showcase
• 🎨 to the theme catalogue
• 📦 with the proper keyword in your package.json
• 💬 on social media tagging the Astro account
• ... and of course, in our Discord #showcase channel!

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