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title: Community Call - 23-08-01
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## Repos
### Astro Core - (Matthew)
#### Latest version(s): 2.9

[Astro CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/refs/heads/main/packages/astro/CHANGELOG.md)

[Astro pulse](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pulse)

We're also preparing the release of Astro 2.10 this week.

Matthew will talk about Astro 2.10

#### Upcoming/roadmap stuff

We are also working on the breaking changes for the upcoming Astro 3.0 release! You can check out the issue in Astro docs as we plan the upgrade to Astro v3 guide.

[Discord thread for 3.0 feedback/ideas](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1120744365350993930)

[Roadmap discussions](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/)

### Starlight 0.6 - Chris

[Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build)

- Starlight v0.6 was released last week -> [Starlight CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/CHANGELOG.md)
- New sidebar frontmatter options to sort and label autogenerated navigation thanks to @IDurward *(Sarah added, because this was a HUGE requested feature! OMG, you now have more options for sorting your sidebar items! And it took TWO PRs! thanks to @IDurward (#359 & #424))*
- Support for custom favicon formats
- Style improvements
- Some new icons were added (Gitlab)

> Chris usually provides something, but if he doesn't, go through the #Announcements channel and/or Starlight's changelog and the #starlight channel to find SOMETHING. There is never NO talking about Starlight! :star2:

- Coming soon — so much! https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pulls

### Docs - Sarah

- finally got our backlog of CMS guides merged? (One pending, but probably done by tomorrow's call)

- Talking and Doc'ing topic was Issue triage, and before we even got started on the 46 existing issues, we made 2 of own... then finished the call with only 16 issues left standing, and PRs to close 4 more of them, thanks to audience contributions! We'll do another Talking and Doc'ing this week, exciting Docs work TBA! See the Astro Community calendar and Discord Events

- The Great Issue Purge of Thursday led into the Wild PR Merge Chaos of Friday! (45 PRs merged in a 24 hour period, 145 in the week) Most of that was thanks to our amazing i18n crews, translators and reviewers and of course, Yan's "update branch" finger!

- Japanese tutorial merged! 

- Exciting only in as much as it means V3 is getting closer... for those who are keen, we have an Astro 3.0 Breaking Changes issue in the docs repo (one of the few we didn't close!) where the platform team is adding their breaking feature changes so we can start to get the "Migrate from v2 - v3" guide ready. We also have a new v3 label in docs where platform is PR'ing their new feature documentation. So these are two good places if you want the "insider view" on what's happening in the weeks leading up to our v3 launch!

Docs Permalinks:

- [Issues labelled "help wanted"](https://github.com/withastro/docs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22help+wanted%22)

- [Contributor guides](https://docs.astro.build/en/contribute/)

## Around the Community

It's the first community call of the month, which means we have updated the hyperdrive! https://hyperdrive-speedometer.netlify.app/

### Astro Peeps

*(People on streams, conferences etc.)*

- Elian was on vacation, but now back!
- Elian is arranging to speak in September in Paris and France
- we just refreshed the themes for our default starter and blog templates. You can view them on [astro.new](https://astro.new)!
- Matthew has released a personal project -> https://yums.email/ & https://twitter.com/matthewcp/status/1684608013825343517
- Nate has released an other personal weekend project -> https://mas.to/@nmoo/110809383018493163
  - A fast and tiny JS tokenizer


### Tips and Tools

*(libraries, tools, themes, templates that people can use in their Astro projects; look in `#showcase` and social media for posts)*

- https://github.com/danielcgilibert/blog-template - Blog template
- https://github.com/jlarmstrongiv/mr-world/ - Integration
- https://lucia-auth.com/guidebook/sign-in-with-username-and-password/astro - Auth

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### Personal/Professional/Project Sites

*(Websites built with Astro from community members/individual peeps)*

- https://gdscyu.com/ - University student club
- https://twitter.com/threlte/status/1686416375667990528 (built with Astro, Tailwind & Svelte)
- https://www.joshuakgoldberg.com/blog/ (blog was ported over) (Josh also builds this website live on his streams, so check him out on Twitch)

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## OUTSIDE the community! In the world!

*(Less community, more huge "Look At who's using, talking or blogging about Astro!" - streams, blog posts, big name sites etc.)*

- https://elk.zone/mstdn.social/@sylwia@webtoo.ls/110813988623348118

## Ben

Ben won't demo anything today
