Astro Weekly #86

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Hello, Astronauts!

While everyone’s been busy unboxing their brand-new Nintendo Switch 2 this week, Astro quietly dropped some fresh power-ups of its own.

In today’s issue: the latest release highlights, a slick new CLI tool for generating content entries, and an in-depth guide to building Astro integrations.

Let’s get into it! 🚀

What’s new with Astro 🗞️

Fresh features, updates, and announcements. The latest from Astro HQ!

Astro 5.9 locks it down 🔒

Astro 5.9 is here, focused on security, flexibility, and polish.

Here’s what’s new in Astro 5.9:

• 🔐 Experimental Content Security Policy: Lock down your site with CSP. Astro now auto-generates hashes for inline scripts and styles, with flexible config and zero unsafe-inline required.

• 📝 Render Markdown in Content Loaders: Now you can render Markdown inside any content loader, using your project’s global Markdown settings for full consistency.

• 🖼️ Control default styles on responsive images: Disable Astro’s default image styles (useful if you’re battling Tailwind 4’s cascade layers) with a new experimental config option.

• 📣 Cleaner adapter logs: Adapters can now suppress Astro’s default feature warnings to avoid duplicate or confusing log output.

To upgrade, run npx @astrojs/upgrade, or check out the Astro 5.9 release post for the full details.

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Astro Community 🧑‍🚀

Spotlight on what’s shining in the Astroverse.

Generate Astro content from the CLI 📝

Chris Pennington demos a slick new community tool, new-md, that lets you scaffold Markdown files from your Astro content schema straight from the CLI.

It’s a simple quality-of-life boost if you’re building content-heavy sites with Astro’s content collections.

How Astro integrations really work 🧩

Astro’s integrations system is powerful, but if you’ve only used astro add, you might not know what’s going on under the hood.

This deep guide shows how integrations hook into Astro’s build process. If you’re building an integration (or just curious), this is essential reading.

Spotted in the Astroverse 🪐

A few standout posts from the community that grabbed my attention!

• 📄 Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Management

• 🔌 Supercharge your websites with Flotiq & Astro

• 🔐 How to Add SSR Auth to Astro with Supabase and Astro Actions

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 all for this week!

Got something cool you’re building with Astro or an insightful blog post? Share it with Astro Weekly! Drop me a line at [email protected] or get in touch via DM on X.

Now, back to playing Mario Kart. See you next week, Astronauts.

– Nathan 👨‍🚀