What's new in Astro - March 2024

By
Elian Van Cutsem

A month full of releases, Astro Studio, Astro Developer Portal, and so much more. Let’s dive in!

Updates from Mission Control

Releases

Docs

This month, we added a new Upgrade Astro page to the docs that includes all kinds of guidance on how, when, and why to upgrade to the latest version, including an explanation of Astro’s semantic versioning from our platform team. If you ever wondered what all the different numbers in our release versions meant, we’ve now got you covered!

Our weekly Discord call β€œTalking and Doc’ing” is a chance for you to watch Team Docs work in public, jump in a shared Codespace or Gitpod Workspace, and contribute to the docs live, together. This month’s topics included:

  • Updating our community website with all of our past community award winners going back to the very beginning, giving us a chance to test a new pagination component.
  • Adding our new <Steps /> component to the entire Build a Blog beginner tutorial, and reminding ourselves that not every numbered list is a set of instructions to follow.
  • Helping a brand new Astro-focused tips and resource site get off the ground, using Starlight to present high quality Astro content like recipes, tutorials and guide.

Community

Community Awards February

These are some of the people who went above and beyond last month to make all our lives just a little (or a lot!) better:

  • 🌟 $500 to @mingjunlu for contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community including support, translations, migrating tests and fixing issues.
  • 🍾 $250 to @ktym4a for contributions to the Astro ecosystem, including core and integrations.
  • 🎈 $250 to @jackshelton Shelton for outstanding leadership and community support with the QwikDev/astro integration.
  • 🎊 $250 to @soslan117 for their enthusiastic contributions translating Astro Docs into Russian.
  • πŸŽ‰ $250 to @bryceguy for creating several popular community packages and leadership in community support.

πŸ‘• ✨ Swag shop merch issued this month to @tigger_hyk, @nathanlawsn, and @sergios1630 !

Check them out and learn more about the Astro Community Awards on our community website.

Showcase

Content

Because you can never get tired of watching and reading Astro Content.

Tips & Tools

The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro.

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added & released this month. Try them out!

More themes:

Websites

All the community member websites submitted to our Discord #showcase channel and featured on community calls this month.

Starlight in the wild

Want to be on this list next month? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our #showcase channel in our Discord!