Astro joins Cloudflare as Astro 6 beta ships
Cloudflare says The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare today, with the Astro team continuing to build the open-source framework. The announcement also highlights Astro 6’s public beta and a GA release planned in the coming weeks.
Cloudflare announced today that The Astro Technology Company (the team behind the Astro web framework) is joining Cloudflare.
The post is co-authored by Astro creator Fred Schott and Cloudflare’s Brendan Irvine-Broque, and says Astro will remain MIT-licensed with open governance and a public roadmap. Cloudflare adds that all full-time employees of The Astro Technology Company are now Cloudflare employees and will continue working on Astro. Both companies say Astro will keep its “run anywhere” stance, supporting deployments across clouds and platforms rather than being limited to Cloudflare.
Alongside the acquisition, Cloudflare highlights Astro 6: the first public beta is available now, with general availability planned in the coming weeks. Astro 6 is described as introducing a redesigned dev server built on Vite’s Environments API, including local development that can run in Cloudflare’s open-source Workers runtime (workerd) when used with the Cloudflare Vite plugin. The announcement also points to Durable Objects, D1, KV, and Agents as runtime features available during local development in that setup, and notes that Live Content Collections are stable in Astro 6.