What's new in Astro - October 2026 Astro shipped version 7.4 in October 2026, adding a --timings flag that shows where a build spends its time, separate build and runtime image services, a notFound() handler for custom entrypoints, and two experimental features: parallel prerendering and custom redirect pages. The Astro team also highlighted adopters including Lonely Planet, Wikimedia Enterprise and HTTP Archive, and noted maintainer talks at Cloudflare Connect, ViteConf and Vue Fes Japan. Developer Miguel Fernandez documented migrating an approximately 800-page multi-language marketing site from Webflow to Astro in a single day, reporting improved SEO/AEO. 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 :