---
title: "Astro 4.5"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-4-5-5u3lkfyrz
source_url: https://astro.build/blog/astro-450/
type: article
source: "Astro"
published: 2024-03-11T16:19:15.827Z
updated: 2026-06-25T02:16:37.618Z
tags: ["accessibility", "astro", "view-transitions", "webdev"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 73
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://astro.build/blog/astro-450/>

## 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.

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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)

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