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Astro [email protected]stable Released Nov 05, 2026
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⚡ Improvements 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 10
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

This patch release for Astro delivers numerous bug fixes and minor improvements, primarily enhancing the reliability of i18n routing, the developer experience during `astro dev`, and the robustness of `astro check` in CI/CD environments. Users can expect more stable routing, improved error reporting, and more consistent build processes.

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Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

💻 Software Engineers & Devs

Upgrade to benefit from critical fixes in i18n routing, improved `astro dev` behavior, and better error messaging for issues like `MissingSharp`.

📊 Product & Engineering Leads

Internationalized sites will see improved reliability in i18n fallback behavior, ensuring a smoother user experience for localized content.

⚙️ DevOps & Security

Adopt this version to ensure `astro check` provides accurate exit codes in CI/CD pipelines and prevents crashes when output is piped, leading to more robust build automation.

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)

  • Preserves last-modified dates for cached font and unchanged public files during build output, respecting public-directory configuration and avoiding backdating.
  • Improves the `MissingSharp` error message to include specific reasons for loading failures, aiding debugging.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (10)

  • Avoids attributing client-only components or scripts to unrelated pages when importing `astro:i18n` by bounding page graph traversal.
  • Fixes an extra page reload on the first `astro dev` start without an existing `.astro` directory.
  • Corrects `astro check` to exit with code 1 when `@astrojs/check` or `typescript` is not installed, preventing silent skipping in CI.
  • Resolves an issue where the `glob()` loader added excluded files during `astro dev` when they changed.
  • Fixes i18n fallback for on-demand rendered pages, ensuring correct redirects or rewrites with `302` status and `Location` header.
  • Ensures `matchAllRoutes` correctly considers `fallbackRoutes`, aligning with `matchRoute` and the production router.
  • Prevents `astro check` from losing output or crashing with an `EPIPE` error when stdout is piped to a slow reader, now exiting with code 1 instead.
  • Fixes unnecessary full page reloads in `astro dev` when a content loader calls `store.clear()` or `store.delete()` without asset imports.
  • Corrects scroll restoration for pages using `<ClientRouter />` on full reloads to use the browser's native behavior.
  • Addresses an unhandled `TypeError` when calling `route.generate()` without arguments on static routes.
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### Patch Changes - [#18565](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18565) [`cd09986`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/cd0998612eb9f48946991479d68590a1407ee5e0) Thanks [@praveen-kumary](https://github.com/praveen-kumary)! - Avoids attributing client-only components or scripts to unrelated pages importing `astro:i18n` by bounding top-level page graph traversal at virtual page entries - [#18608](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18608) [`babd96d`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/babd96d1f16b8ea5a699693fb725a759d9fa03de) Thanks [@umeraamir69](https://github.com/umeraamir69)! - Fixes an extra page reload on the first page load after starting `astro dev` without an existing `.astro` directory - [#18589](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18589) [`402c0fa`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/402c0fae01d251c97298c255804008ff566802f9) Thanks [@astro-factory](https://github.com/apps/astro-factory)! - Fixes `astro check` exiting with code 0 when `@astrojs/check` or `typescript` is not installed. The command now exits with code 1 so CI fails instead of silently skipping type checking. - [#18503](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18503) [`54fcdd5`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/54fcdd5dedc982a77f1590e26247d57dd1802da9) Thanks [@SwastikTripathi](https://github.com/SwastikTripathi)! - Preserves the last-modified date of cached font files and unchanged public files when copying them into the build output. Public-file timestamp preservation respects the resolved public-directory configuration, follows source symlinks, and avoids backdating files overwritten by build plugins. - [#18605](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18605) [`76cd239`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/76cd2398642bd77b61b9880dcfc7b78d513cb048) Thanks [@astro-factory](https://github.com/apps/astro-factory)! - Fixes the `glob()` loader adding files from a folder excluded with a negation pattern such as `!_docs` when they change during `astro dev` - [#18432](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18432) [`ed60d82`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/ed60d82935d5768c3fcf67ce508e1f4edbfe25d6) Thanks [@alexmv](https://github.com/alexmv)! - Improves the `MissingSharp` error to include the reason Sharp failed to load, such as its prebuilt binaries not supporting the current CPU - [#18474](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18474) [`59543c3`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/59543c3ad52e7141bcd6365cd70e8b51f18ccbd4) Thanks [@miottid](https://github.com/miottid)! - Fixes i18n fallback for on-demand rendered pages. A locale-prefixed request for a page that only exists in the fallback locale (for example `/de/about` with `fallback: { de: 'en' }`) was answered with status `302` and no `Location` header. Such requests are now rewritten or redirected to the fallback locale according to `i18n.routing.fallbackType`, including encoded paths and sites with a configured `base`. Query strings are preserved, and explicit page statuses and redirects are left unchanged. - [#18541](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18541) [`cfa2d2b`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/cfa2d2b9e36ad610f6e7c27643e9157be3584a79) Thanks [@ump45nose](https://github.com/ump45nose)! - Fixes `matchAllRoutes` to consider `fallbackRoutes`, matching `matchRoute` and the production router. Dev-server i18n fallback requests now resolve to the source route's metadata instead of the 404 route, and SSR-only fallback candidates can fall through the prerender handler. - [#18602](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18602) [`d856064`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/d8560645033aac84fe61d4f4b3462f55a9d2eb89) Thanks [@astro-factory](https://github.com/apps/astro-factory)! - Fixes `astro check` losing the end of its output, including the `Result` summary, when stdout is piped to a slow reader. When the reader closes the pipe early, for example `astro check | head`, `astro check` now exits with code 1 instead of crashing with an `EPIPE` stack trace. - [#18574](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18574) [`da0f149`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/da0f149de58001fa5564d083acbae34e7b4a1b1f) Thanks [@astro-factory](https://github.com/apps/astro-factory)! - Fixes an unnecessary full page reload in `astro dev` when a content loader calls `store.clear()` or `store.delete()` and the content store has no asset imports - [#18570](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18570) [`e71c038`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/e71c038f31194280b44515bf53cf449a5313baf9) Thanks [@astro-factory](https://github.com/apps/astro-factory)! - Fixes pages using `<ClientRouter />` briefly showing the top of the page on reload before jumping back to the previous scroll position. Full reloads now use the browser's native scroll restoration. - [#18531](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/18531) [`f75553b`](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/f75553b8bbe6cb9b72d8fda0059198ab3330f089) Thanks [@praveen-kumary](https://github.com/praveen-kumary)! - Fixes an unhandled `TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object` when calling `route.generate()` without arguments on static routes
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