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Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Astro Open-Source Web Framework

Astro remains open-source under an MIT license with platform-agnostic support preserved under Cloudflare stewardship.

Overview

  • All full-time employees of The Astro Technology Company have joined Cloudflare and will continue working on Astro full-time.
  • Astro maintains open governance and support for multiple deployment targets beyond Cloudflare, reinforcing its platform-agnostic stance.
  • Astro 6 entered beta this week with support for additional JavaScript runtimes, faster build times, and performance improvements.
  • Cloudflare committed resources and an Astro Ecosystem Fund with partners including Webflow, Netlify, Wix, and Sentry to sustain community contributions.
  • Adoption remains strong with nearly 1,000,000 weekly downloads and use by hundreds of thousands of developers and major brands such as Unilever, Visa, NBC News, Microsoft, and Google.