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# Astro 5.6

**[Astro](https://daily.dev/sources/astro_source)** · 8 min read · 53 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Astro 5.6 introduces several key features including first-class astro:env support for Cloudflare, experimental session support, and a new prefetch eagerness control. Additional highlights include custom fetch options for prerendered error pages, a new load() method for managing sessions, improved config validation, and breaking changes to the experimental SVG API. The release also comes with various bug fixes and contributions from the community.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://astro.build/blog/astro-560/>

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