Astro 7: Rust Compiler, Rust Markdown Pipeline and Vite 8 for Builds Up to 61% Faster
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Astro 7 rewrites its .astro compiler in Rust (via oxc and Lightning CSS) and replaces Markdown processing with Sätteri, a Rust pipeline built on pulldown-cmark and Oxc, delivering builds 15–61% faster—astro.build dropped from 62.70s to 24.24s. The framework moves to Vite 8 with Rolldown bundler, adds a queue-based rendering engine, and stabilizes experimental features like route caching with CDN providers (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare) and a Hono-compatible src/fetch.ts entrypoint. Point releases 7.1 and 7.2 add granular CSP directives, pagination URL formatting, chunked data stores, and a --ignore-lock flag for concurrent dev servers.