--- title: Astro 4.5 | daily.dev description: Astro 4.5 is now available! This release improves the developer experience with a new Dev Audit UI that allows developers to automatically identify site... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Astro 4.5 | daily.dev og:description: Astro 4.5 is now available! This release improves the developer experience with a new Dev Audit UI that allows developers to automatically identify site... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5U3lKFyRZ.png og:image:alt: Astro 4.5 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Astro 4.5 **[Astro](https://daily.dev/sources/astro_source)** · 4 min read · 73 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Astro 4.5 is now available! This release improves the developer experience with a new Dev Audit UI that allows developers to automatically identify site performance and accessibility issues during development. Other highlights include improved view transitions, upgraded syntax highlighting with Shiki 1.0, multi-CDN asset prefixing, and experimental features like JSON schemas for data collections and a new script detection algorithm. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kyoukhana** · 0 upvotes > The problem with Astro it uses a lot of dependencies. When you create a new project go to the node modules it uses its a lot. **@ivanlynch** · 0 upvotes > I'm not using Astro yet but this release note looks nice. --- Tags: [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility), [#astro](https://daily.dev/tags/astro), [#view-transitions](https://daily.dev/tags/view-transitions), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Astro 4.5","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz"},"datePublished":"2024-03-11T16:19:15.827Z","dateModified":"2026-06-25T02:16:37.618Z","description":"Astro 4.5 is now available! 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