Astro Technology Company, maker of the Astro web framework, has just been acquired by Cloudflare. The company also just released Astro 6 in beta, with the update featuring a redesigned development server.
The merger with Cloudflare means Astro remains open source and MIT-licensed and continues to be actively maintained, according to the January 16 announcement. In addition, Astro will continue to support a wide set of deployment targets, not only Cloudflare, and Astro’s open governance and development roadmap remain in place. Full-time employees of The Astro Technology Company are now employees of Cloudflare, said the announcement.
A separate blog post on January 13 provided instructions for accessing the Astro 6 beta. The Astro 6 development server refactor brings Astro’s development and production code paths much closer and increases Astro’s stability on all runtimes, according to the announcement. The release also unlocks first-class support for Astro on the Cloudflare Workers platform for building applications across the Cloudflare global network.