# Astro astro@5.13.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Astro (https://astro.build)
- **Version:** astro@5.13.0
- **Released:** Aug 14, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/astro/updates/astro-5.13.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Astro astro@5.13.0. Source highlight: Adds an experimental flag `staticImportMetaEnv` to disable the replacement of `import.meta.env` values with `process.env` calls and their coercion of environment variable values. This supersedes the `rawEnvValues` experimental flag, which is now removed.

## New Features
- Adds an experimental flag `staticImportMetaEnv` to disable the replacement of `import.meta.env` values with `process.env` calls and their coercion of environment variable values. This supersedes the `rawEnvValues` experimental flag, which is now removed.
- Adds experimental support for automatic Chrome DevTools workspace folders

## Upgrade Command
```bash
npm install --save-exact astro@5.13.0
```
