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# This week in Astro! (announcement post - week 42 2023)

## 🚀 Astro core

### Picture component is back!

Read [the blogpost about launching Astro 3.3.0 here](https://astro.build/blog/astro-330/)

### other RFC's for Astro

Incremental build, i18n routing, built-in SVG support, partials and Container APIs

The full list of RFC's and their details can be found on [our Roadmap repository](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+sort:updated-desc)

## 🎃 Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest has started and we're accepting Hacktoberfest PRs! This is the perfect opportunity for your first Astro PR!

Starlight already accepted & merged 36 PRs for Hacktoberfest in Starlight

1 PR merged in Astro core

56 PRs merged in Astro docs


You can find more information on [how to participate to Hacktoberfest in our Hacktoberfest guide](https://github.com/withastro/docs/blob/main/.github/hacktoberfest.md)

## :books: Docs

The new tutorial extensions were launched:

- https://docs.astro.build/en/tutorials/add-content-collections/
- https://docs.astro.build/en/tutorials/add-view-transitions/

Let us know what you think!

### Astro Docs Raycast extension

If you're a [Raycast](https://www.raycast.com/) user (MacOS only), you might be interested in this extension. It provides a way to search and browse the Astro Docs right from Raycast.

Extension link: https://www.raycast.com/ElianCodes/search-astro-docs

## :starlight: Starlight

Starlight `v0.11.0` was released with much requested features like component customisation support. See all the changes in [the Changelog](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/@astrojs/starlight@0.11.0)

## 👀 Showcase

Here's a selection of items shared on the Community Call this week!

### 🧑‍💻 Personal Sites

- https://procastinatordev.vercel.app/ by @procastinatordev
- https://www.mcdle.net/ by @elitogame
- https://www.decimal.fm/ by @chrsgrrtt
- https://dev.jeromeabel.net/ by @jeromeabel
- https://www.nunogois.com/
- https://ovidius-astro-theme.netlify.app/ by @tomas_ba

### Starlight in the wild

- https://nostalgist.js.org/
- https://reactnativeunistyles.vercel.app/
- https://sibiraj-s.github.io/ngx-editor
- https://webmonetization.org/docs/

*Want to be in this list next week? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demo's and videos in ⁠#showcase!*
