# What's new in Astro - October 2026

> Source: <https://astro.build/blog/whats-new-october-2026/>
> Published: 2026-10-31 00:00:00+00:00

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month, including:

Let’s dive right into it!

## Latest releases

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

- [Astro 7.4](https://astro.build/blog/astro-740) - 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.

## Astro Adopters

From Lonely Planet to Wikimedia to HTTP Archive, some of the biggest names you know from around the globe are using Astro!

- [Travel Guides & Travel Inspiration - Lonely Planet](https://www.lonelyplanet.com/)
- [Wikimedia Enterprise - APIs for AI, Search & Knowledge Graphs](https://enterprise.wikimedia.com)
- [HTTP Archive Documentation | HTTP Archive Docs](https://httparchive.org/docs)

See more companies using Astro in our [site showcase](https://astro.build/showcase/), and explore Astro for corporate or enterprise use with one of our [agency partners](https://astro.build/agencies/)!

## 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!

- [Mare Fair 2026](https://2026.marefair.org/)
- [Can Türk · Uygulama güvenliği, yazılım ve Pixel Shorts](https://iamcanturk.dev)
- [Carter Ogunsola :: Creative Developer & Brand Engineer](https://carterogunsola.com)

## Cosmic Canvas

Didn’t think you could do that with Astro? These stunning sites with spectacular visuals and smooth animations prove you can!

- [Malwation · Malware Sandbox, Static Analysis and CDR](https://www.malwation.com)
- [FRAMEDWORKS | Cinematische Vastgoedmedia Amsterdam](https://framedworks.nl)
- [Webdesign & Digitalagentur Hamburg | Senorit](https://senorit.de)

## Community

### Astro Team News

October was the month for conferences! [Cloudflare Connect](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/), [ViteConf](https://viteconf.org), and [Vue Fes Japan](https://vuefes.jp/2026/) included several talks from Astro maintainers. Look for videos to be posted later!

[Kenji](https://bsky.app/profile/jp-knj.bsky.social): “The current state of the frontend toolchain, as seen through Astro and Rust”

[Matthew Phillips](https://bsky.app/profile/fancypenguin.party): “Building a software factory: Driving Astro’s Issues to zero”

[Matt Kane](https://bsky.app/profile/mk.gg): “EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents” and “Astro is the new WordPress”

[Sarah Rainsberger](https://bsky.app/profile/sarah11918.rainsberger.ca): “Denied: What doesn’t belong in your documentation”

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the [Astro Luma Calendar](https://luma.com/astrodotbuild).

### 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](https://www.luckymedia.dev/blog/astro-tip-stop-hardcoding-theme-logic-into-your-cms-components-use-data-attributes-instead) .

(And, see why we need your help to [support the future of Astro](https://astro.build/blog/supporting-the-future-of-astro/)).

### Shout-outs

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

- [`@Sakku`](https://github.com/Yusaku01) for their helpful contributions including translations for Astro Docs and Starlight!

## Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

- **Miguel Fernandez**[migrated an ~800 page multi-language marketing website from Webflow to Astro in a single day](https://www.useomnia.com/blog/webflow-to-astro-migration) , improved SEO/AEO dramatically, and allowed for faster changes through agents.
- **webdecoy** figures out[who’s crawling your Astro site](https://dev.to/webdecoy/whos-crawling-your-astro-site-18jh) .
- **Jonathan Gamble** shows you how Astro allows you to[use Kendo UI with Svelte](https://www.telerik.com/blogs/using-kendo-ui-svelte) , embedding Kendo UI for Vue grids alongside Svelte components built with Runes.
- **Ryan Selden** and**Jack Hanford** at Owner[rebuilt their website infrastructure in Astro for speed to help local restaurants improve their online ordering experience](https://building.owner.com/project-speed) , and it raised per-restaurant revenue by more than 4% across the network.83% faster menu pages and a 4% revenue lift per restaurant is about as clean a case for speed as you get. — Rhys Davis | The App Scaler (@RhysDavisFetch)
 Good writeup on making the case for an infrastructure rebuild with real numbers.[October 14, 2026](https://x.com/RhysDavisFetch/status/2110292387561922609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)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. — Alexis Ohanian 🗽 (@alexisohanian)[https://t.co/dztcvo5Mfg](https://t.co/dztcvo5Mfg)[October 14, 2026](https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/2110475735601398017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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

### Migration Stories

- [Goodbye WordPress](https://nolanlawson.com/2026/09/30/goodbye-wordpress/)
- [Why we migrated coditive.com from WordPress to Astro: a case study](https://coditive.com/blog/wordpress-to-astro-migration-case-study/)
- [unicrew.com: our WordPress to Astro migration](https://unicrew.com/case-study/wordpress-to-astro-migration/)
- [Moving off Adobe Portfolio to Astro + Cloudflare Pages](https://antvinni.pages.dev/blog/anastasiia-portfolio/)

### How-to Articles

## Watch Party

Be sure to follow [Astro’s official YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/astrodotbuild) for content from the team!

### Astro on demand

Grab your popcorn and make a playlist of your faves! 🍿

## Tips & Tools

See some of the latest community-built [utilities and integrations](https://astro.build/integrations/) to help you build with Astro. 🛠

- [@dennismiranda/astro-cart](https://github.com/DennisMiranda/cart-npm#readme) : Functional e-commerce cart for Astro: side drawer, floating trigger, product variants, persistence, and theming via CSS variables.
- [@destination/astro-purge-css](https://github.com/wearedestination/astro-purge-css#readme) : Astro integration that removes unused CSS from a static build and inlines small stylesheets.
- [@halfgray/astro-plugin-classic-js](https://github.com/jack126guy/astro-plugin-classic-js#readme) : This Astro plugin enables imports of “classic” (non-module) scripts as static assets, with minification.
- [@rgglez/music-laserharp](https://github.com/rgglez/music-laserharp#readme) : Playable laser harp Web Component (Three.js + Tone.js) with Astro, React, and Svelte wrappers and`gettext` translations.
- [@sjohansson/astro-votes](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sjohansson/astro-votes) : Like and dislike buttons for static Astro sites. Votes go to your analytics tool as events, a CI job writes the totals to a JSON file, and the site shows them at build time. No database.
- [@sudodevstudio/astro-dom-stamp](https://github.com/SudoDevStudio/astro-dom-stamp#readme) : Stamp`data-*` attributes onto DOM elements rendered from fetched data.
- [astro-comments](https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-comments) : Plug-and-play, self-hosted comments for Astro: any server, any storage, works without JavaScript. In development.
- [astro-smart-links](https://astro-smart-links.vercel.app/) : An Astro integration that adds smart styling and broken-link detection to internal and external links.
- [astro-strict-csp](https://github.com/Evgenii-Zinner/astro-strict-csp#readme) : Zero-dependency Astro integration for strict Content Security Policy (zero ‘unsafe-inline’), inline style and script extraction, bundling, Subresource Integrity (SRI) hashing, and CSP enforcement.
- [env-parity-plugin](https://github.com/acus9345/env-parity-plugin#readme) : Fail your Astro build or dev server when a variable from`.env.example` is missing or empty, or when your code reads one the example doesn’t list.
- [sri-sentinel](https://mrlouiswright.github.io/sri-sentinel/) : Subresource Integrity (SRI) generator and checker.

### SEO/AEO

- [@loopstates/astro-linten](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@loopstates/astro-linten) : Official Astro & Starlight integration for auditing`llms.txt` link health and compiling companion archives during build.
- [astro-headlark](https://headlark.com/docs/astro) : Astro integration: writes AI-generated SEO (titles, descriptions, link previews, structured data, alt text) into your built pages after every build.
- [astro-rankcli](https://rankcli.dev/seo/astro) : Astro integration for SEO automation - sitemap, robots.txt, meta injection.
- [astro-seo-toolkit](https://github.com/RelayStack/astro-seo-toolkit#readme) : Zero-dependency SEO toolkit for Astro & static sites:`llms.txt` , JSON-LD, IndexNow,`sitemap.xml` ,`robots.txt` — plus a drop-in Astro integration and an installable agent skill.
- [astro-takumi-images](https://github.com/JUVOJustin/astro-takumi-images#readme) : Astro integration that renders Open Graph images and other social images from your React or Astro components with Takumi, prerendered or on demand, under URLs that change with their content.
- [boberbot](https://boberbot.com) : Make Astro sites agent-ready at build time:`llms.txt` , AI crawler rules (Content Signals) and SEO checks that can fail the build.
- [@ui-guide-agent/web](https://github.com/DomitorAI/ui-guide-agent) : UiGuide Agent for web applications: an AI help agent that guides your users through your UI.
- [astro-agent-ready](https://github.com/Evgenii-Zinner/astro-agent-ready#readme) : Zero-dependency Astro integration for AI agents and LLMs. Generates spec-compliant`/llms.txt` and`/llms-full.txt` , content collection discovery, and future WebMCP readiness.
- [astro-integration-askstatic](https://github.com/MrGKanev/AskStatic#readme) : Static, model-free chat search for Astro sites: answers, clarifying questions and source links, generated at build time.

### CMS/text editors

- [@johannes-fraundorfer/astro-cms](https://github.com/Johannes-Fraundorfer/astro-cms#readme) : Git-backed content editing for Astro sites: a dashboard with a live canvas, drafts, translations and a media library.
- [@kiliannnnn/wavelet-astro](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kiliannnnn/wavelet-astro) : Make an Astro site’s texts and look editable from Wavelet.
- [@seamlet/astro](https://github.com/seamlet/sdk/tree/main/packages/astro#readme) : Connects an Astro site to the Seamlet CMS: the schema of its content, the preview the editor frames, its published content, and what makes it found by search engines and AI assistants.
- [bearminion](https://bearminion.com) : A git-based CMS for Astro with no database and no server: JSON content in your repo, edited by clicking on the page during astro dev.
- [astro-sveltia-pages](https://github.com/liangningcn/astro-sveltia-pages#readme) : Generates`/admin` (`index.html` +`config.yml` ) for Sveltia CMS, with Cloudflare R2 media support and a GitHub OAuth template for Cloudflare Pages and EdgeOne Pages.
- [nohu-cms](https://github.com/davidbarbi3r/nohu-cms#readme) : Content administrator for static Astro sites on Cloudflare: managing text, images, and articles within D1 and R2, with access via Cloudflare Access.
- [wuppycms](https://wuppycms.com) : WuppyCMS: a file-based, Git-backed CMS and admin panel for Astro.

### Design systems and UI kits

- [@dario-loi/polytope](https://dario-loi.github.io/polytope/) : Polytope: tokens, CSS components, and Astro components for academic sites, paper pages, and research demos.
- [@krigsvold/astro](https://krigsvoldtheme.dev/) : Reusable Astro layouts and components for the Krigsvold design system.
- [@martlet/astro](https://martlettheme.dev/) : Reusable Astro layouts and components for the Martlet design system.
- [@pelagic-ui/astro](https://oriebalzyuot96.github.io/pelagic-ui/) : Pelagic UI for Astro — accessible, zero-JS server-rendered components with 21 themes.
- [@shabboo/kit](https://ui.shab.boo) : ShabUI, the night-first design system behind shab.boo: tokens, base CSS, fonts and RTL-ready components for Astro and React.
- [astro-nosferatu](https://github.com/renangirotto/nosferatu#readme) : Astro component library: styles and`.astro` components.
- [bws-astro-ui](https://astro-ui.banachwebsolutions.com) : BWS Astro UI — Vuetify-inspired Astro components styled with Tailwind CSS v4.
- [runeicons-astro](https://runeicons.com) : Astro components for RuneIcons: 350+ icons, 900+ variants across five styles.

### Images and Animations

- [@alos/astro-media](https://github.com/Alos-no/Astro-Smart-Media) : Reusable Astro media components: optimized images, and videos with HLS fallback.
- [@awesome-reveal/astro](https://github.com/awesome-reveal/awesome-reveal/tree/next/packages/astro) : Reveal-on-scroll animations for Astro, built on the Web Animations API and`IntersectionObserver` .
- [@skeu/astro](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@skeu/astro) : Skeu Icons for Astro: skeuomorphic, multicolour SVG icon components with a Lucide-compatible API.
- [@wisdomousai/astro-creatures](https://github.com/wisdomousai/creatures-astro-starter#readme) : An Astro integration: your content, shown clean with toy robots walking on the window’s frame, or played inside a little 3D room with the pages on a monitor.
- [ascii.rest](https://ascii.rest/docs/) : Animated ascii art for web pages, READMEs and terminals, in TypeScript, and a kit for making your own.
- [astro-plugin-imgnest](https://github.com/biliblihuorong/astro-plugin-imgnest#readme) : ImgNest responsive images plugin for Astro.
- [astro-stable-image-urls](https://github.com/h93xV2/astro-stable-image-urls#readme) : Give Astro image assets stable, content-derived URLs across builds.
- [domlamps](https://domlamps.project.souledirectory.dev) : 2.5D top-down lighting for ordinary HTML: elements have height, cast soft shadows and emit light. One WebGL2 shader, no framework.
- [pageturn](https://github.com/Androlax2/pageturn#readme) : Page transitions between real page loads, in every browser. No router, no swapped DOM.

### Markdown, Text, and more

- [@aaron212/astro-highlights](https://github.com/Aaron-212/astro-highlights#readme) : Server-side syntax highlighting with Pierre Highlights for Astro and Sätteri.
- [@aaron212/astro-pele](https://demos.aaron212.com/astro-pele/) : Render Mermaid diagrams with Pele in Astro and Sätteri.
- [@aaron212/astro-typlet](https://demos.aaron212.com/astro-typlet/) : Sätteri plugins, an Astro integration, and an Astro component for Typlet math rendering.
- [@eddyter/astro](https://www.eddyter.com) : Rich text editor component for Astro.
- [@open-wysiwyg-editor/astro](https://alhassan73.github.io/open-wysiwyg-editor/) : Astro component for`open-wysiwyg-editor` :`<RichTextEditor name value />` , works with plain form posts. Accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA), RTL-first, CSP-safe.
- [@syedmsawaid/astro-substack](https://github.com/SyedMSawaid/astro-substack#readme) : Astro integration that backs up your Substack posts as local Markdown and exposes them as a content collection.
- [@wave-rf/astro-trademarks](https://github.com/Wave-RF/astro-trademarks#readme) : Astro integration that marks the first mention of each third-party trademark on a page with ® or ™ and renders that page’s trademark notices — for`.astro` , Markdown, MDX and Starlight pages alike.
- [astro-markdown-block](https://vatsal.xyz/astro-markdown-block/) : A Markdown block for Astro and React: switch between rendered preview and raw source, toggle word wrap, and copy the Markdown.
- [astro-myst](https://blackwild.github.io/astro-myst/) : MyST Markdown for Astro: an integration and content loader powered by the official mystmd compiler, with numbered figures, equations and sections, cross-references across pages, citations, math, LaTeX sources and notebooks. No`myst.yml` needed.
- [astro-pele](https://t128n.github.io/pele-x/) : Astro integration that renders Mermaid fences to static SVG with Pele.
- [quickinfo](https://github.com/rachfop/quickinfo#readme) : Editor-style API hover tooltips for docs: signatures and docstrings on every API symbol in code blocks and prose.
- [enarratio-astro](https://github.com/DrDustinEdwards/astro/tree/main/packages/enarratio-astro#readme) : Accessible charts for Astro: a Chart component and charts in Markdown, drawn on the server by Enarratio.
- [expressive-code-twinkleplop](https://github.com/HiDeoo/expressive-code-twinkleplop) : Expressive Code plugin to use Twinkleplop as a syntax highlighter: all the features you already use, at the speed of Twinkleplop.

### Internationalization and Localization

- [@cloudflare/polystella-astro](https://github.com/cloudflare/polystella) : AI-driven content localization for Astro (build-time markdown translation, R2-cached).
- [@codeaeffchen/astro-split-domains](https://github.com/codeaeffchen-gmbh/astro-split-domains#readme) : Astro integration: one static build, one output folder per domain — e.g. German on example.de, English on example.com.
- [@rgglez/astro-i18n-gettext](https://github.com/rgglez/astro-i18n-gettext#readme) : Translations (i18n) for Astro using`gettext` : per-request translator,`<T>` component, and client-side language switching.
- [@siteonce/astro-intl](https://github.com/siteonce/astro-integrations/tree/main/packages/astro-intl#readme) : Pairs content entries across locales and injects localized routes on top of Astro’s i18n.
- [astrolingual](https://github.com/soywig/astrolingual#readme) : Astro integration for i18n.

### Content loaders

- [astro-loader-directus](https://github.com/ComfortablyCoding/astro-loader-directus#readme) : Astro Content Layer loader for Directus.
- [astro-loader-github](https://github.com/pietervanleuven/astro-loader-github#readme) : Astro content loader that loads the public repositories of a GitHub user or organization at build time.
- [astro-loader-umami](https://github.com/pietervanleuven/astro-loader-umami#readme) : Astro content loader that loads page view counts from Umami at build time.

### Starlight

- [@markgrafhq/starlight-markgraf](https://github.com/markgrafhq/starlight-markgraf#readme) : Starlight/Astro integration for embedding markgraf animations. Transforms markgraf fenced code blocks into a live player and exposes a`<Markgraf src="…" />` component.
- [starlight-ai-chatbot](https://asyntai.com/documentation/integrations/starlight/) : Starlight plugin that adds the Asyntai AI chat assistant to your docs. It answers reader questions from your own documentation, in 80+ languages.
- [starlight-codeblocks](https://ewels.github.io/starlight-codeblocks/) : A plugin for Starlight and Astro that adds focus, line states, comment notation, annotations, API auto-linking and more features to code blocks, on top of Expressive Code.
- [starlight-myog](https://myog.social/docs/starlight) : Starlight plugin that adds a MyOG.social`og:image` and`twitter:image` to every docs page, generated from each page’s URL.
- [starlight-ondocs](https://ondocs.vercel.app/docs/astro) : Open-source Ask AI for your docs, with an MCP server for agents. Cited answers on your own model key, from one static index, with no vendor and no vector database.
- [starlight-seo](https://github.com/kaktaknet/starlight-seo#readme) : Starlight plugin for search-ready titles, connected JSON-LD, complete Open Graph tags and a build-time SEO audit.

### Astro integrations by and for other tools

- [@astroscope/cap](https://github.com/entwico/astroscope/tree/main/packages/cap#readme) : Cap captcha for Astro.
- [@commentkit/build](https://commentkit.dev) : CommentKit build plugins for Vite, Next.js, webpack and Astro: source locations on elements in dev, branch and commit for every build.
- [@deploybase/adapter-astro](https://codeberg.org/deploybase/deploybase-adapters/src/branch/main/packages/adapter-astro#readme) : Deploy Astro server-rendered sites on deploybase.
- [@digital-craft/astro-cookie-consent](https://github.com/digital-craft-ltd/astro-cookie-consent#readme) : Astro components and Google Consent Mode helpers for Orest Bida’s CookieConsent.
- [@human-reply/astro](https://humanreply.app/astro/setup-guide) : Live chat on every page of your Astro site, answered by your team from Telegram.
- [@nauverse/astro-bun](https://github.com/TheNaubit/astro-bun#readme) : Bun-native Astro adapter for static pages, SSR, and opt-in ISR.
- [@sst-community/astro-sst](https://github.com/sst-community/sst#readme) : Adapter that allows Astro to deploy your site to AWS utilizing SST.
- [@supermetry/astro](https://github.com/velixio/supermetry/tree/main/sdk/astro#readme) : Astro component for Supermetry analytics, View Transitions aware.
- [@yatmo/astro](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@yatmo/astro) : Add real estate maps, points of interest and neighbourhood data to Astro sites: an integration plus YatmoMap, YatmoPois, YatmoText and a build-time YatmoNeighbourhoodText component for property pages, indexable by search engines.
- [astro-adapter-cloudflare-pages](https://github.com/otnc/astro-adapter-cloudflare-pages#readme) : Astro adapter for deploying on-demand rendered sites to Cloudflare Pages or Miniflare (Astro 6, 7 or later).
- [astro-d1-reactions](https://github.com/mrmartineau/astro-d1-reactions) : Astro integration for page reactions backed by Cloudflare D1: unique reads, hearts, reader highlights and a public stats page.
- [astro-fedifeed](https://github.com/yplog/astro-fedifeed#readme) : An Astro component that renders the latest posts of a Mastodon or Pixelfed account or a PeerTube account or channel from its RSS / Atom feed.
- [astro-hydrogen](https://github.com/1cm-Agency/astro-hydrogen-oxygen-adaptor/tree/main/packages/astro-hydrogen#readme) : Astro adapter for Shopify Hydrogen: deploy to Oxygen and get a request-scoped Storefront API client in every page, with no UI framework required.
- [astro-measuremysite](https://measuremy.site/docs/install) : Astro integration for measuremy.site: cookieless web analytics your AI agent can read.
- [astro-pail](https://github.com/chrisdmacrae/pail#readme) : Deploy an Astro site to Pail: prerendered pages as files, on-demand pages and API routes as a function.
- [grok-digest](https://github.com/kenryu42/grok-digest#readme) : Astro integration that renders a Grok Digest site: X bookmarks summarized by Grok, searchable, sorted by topic, with RSS feeds.

## Themes & Templates

Several Astro themes were added to the [Astro theme catalogue](https://astro.build/themes/) 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](https://astro.build/showcase/) this month. [Submit your site built with Astro!](https://astro.build/showcase/submit/)

Want your site to be included? [Submit it to the Astro Showcase Site](https://astro.build/showcase/submit/).

## 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](https://astro.build/showcase/submit/).

## That’s a wrap! 👋

Thanks for spending another month with us!