Astro Weekly #71

Starlight 0.32 adds multisite search, automate changelogs with Astro, transcribe speech with OpenAI Whisper

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Nathan Lawson
February 23, 2025

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Hello, Astronauts!

Another week, another Astro update!

Starlight 0.32 has arrived with powerful new features, including multisite search and an updated plugin system. Plus, learn how to automate your changelog with Astro and GitHub, and check out a voice-powered Astro app using OpenAI’s Whisper model.

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What’s new with Astro 🗞️

Starlight adds multisite search support

Starlight 0.32 shines bright 🌟

The latest update to Starlight brings powerful new features as we move toward v1. Here’s what’s new with Starlight 0.32:

  • 🛠 Route Data Middleware – Customize your site's data without overriding components.

  • 🌍 New i18n APIs for Plugins – Enhance internationalization support in your plugins.

  • 🔎 Multisite Search Support – Search across multiple sites with ease.

  • 🚀 Updated Plugin System – More flexibility and easier integration for developers.

Using plugins?

Community Starlight plugins may also need to be manually updated to work with Starlight 0.32.

Check out the full release post for all the details: Starlight 0.32 Release

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Build an automated changelog with GitHub 📋

In this tutorial, Jamie Barton shows how to build an automated changelog that pulls data directly from GitHub releases.

Using Astro’s content collections and a GitHub content loader, the project fetches and displays releases in a clean, structured format—no manual updates required!

Add automatic speech recognition to Astro 🗣️

Craig Dennis, Developer Educator at Cloudflare, demonstrates how to integrate powerful automatic speech recognition with Astro.

Using the Workers AI-hosted OpenAI Whisper model, this Astro app provides seamless translations and transcriptions—no extra setup required!

What caught my interest this week 🤓

Check out these great posts from the Astro Community ↓

If you have something awesome you’d like to share with the Astro community, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X

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That’s a wrap for this issue of Astro Weekly! 🚀

Got something cool built with Astro? We’d love to see it! Reach out to me at [email protected] or DM on X.

Until next time, keep building, Astronauts!

– Nathan 👨‍🚀