# This week in Astro

### Astro 4.4 was released

- Performance Audits
- Audit list
- Improved streaming performance
- New inferSize properties for remote images

Read more about it in our [announcement blogpost](https://astro.build/blog/astro-440/)

### We have not 1, but 2 new maintainers!

Welcome to @oliverspeir and @liruifengv 🎉🥳🍾

### We have a new channel: #events

A new channel for everything about #events

### :houston_golden: January Community Awards!

- 🌟 $500 to Florian for leading and supporting our integration builders, and contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community.
- 🍾 $250 to Oliver for shipping features in Astro core and providing helpful community support.
- 🎈 $250 to Kevin for consistent contributions to Starlight development
- 🎊 $250 to Happydev for tackling several Astro code issues, fixes and improvements.
- 🎉 $250 to Glad777 for exceptional community involvement in support and docs

Check them out on https://community.astro.build/

### ecosystem-ci

We just started a huge discussion around the idea for an ecosystem-ci: https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204369341642973185

## :books: Astro Docs

On this week's Talking & Doc'ing we started work on some new components for Starlight.

[Upvote your favourite ideas](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/discussions/1491) in the Starlight repo!

## 👀 Showcase

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

### 📹 Content

- 📄 [How I use Notion and Astro to publish my monthly learnings](https://azan-n.com/projects/2024-02-08t091659138z/) by @azan_n
- 📄 [Using Weaviate's generative search with Astro for brainstorming](https://larryhudson.io/astro-weaviate-brainstorm/) by @larryhudson
- 📄 [Add diagrams to starlight using D2](https://hideoo.dev/notes/starlight-add-diagrams-using-d2) by @hideoo
- 📄 [Dynamic components - Is it worth it?](https://dev.to/marcelluscaio/dynamic-components-is-it-worth-it-28m5) by @caiomarcellus
- 📄 [Fetching the latest YouTube videos in an Astro Component](https://techsquidtv.com/blog/astro-fetching-youtube-videos-with-rss/)
- :tv: [Deploy an Astro static site to DigitalOcean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6t93CFnmps) by @zacksiri

### 💡 Tips & Tools

- [astro-clerk-auth](https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-clerk-auth) by @elefcodes
- [Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs](https://github.com/Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs) by @adamm2047
- [inline-mod-astro](https://inox-tools.vercel.app/inline-mod) by @fryuni
- [JulianCataldo/og-images-generator](https://github.com/JulianCataldo/og-images-generator#astro-integration) by @juliancataldo
- [BryceRussell/astro-pages](https://github.com/BryceRussell/astro-pages) by @bryceguy
- [ktym4a/astro-page-insight](https://github.com/ktym4a/astro-page-insight) by @ktym4a
- [kindspells/astro-sri-scp](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kindspells/astro-sri-csp) by @andreu

### 🛝 Themes & Templates

- [Astroplate](https://astro.build/themes/details/astroplate/) by @tffarhad
- [Quantum](https://cosmicthemes.com/themes/quantum/) by @lastchaos.

### 🧑‍💻 Personal Sites

- [wybm-valentine.netlify.app](https://wybm-valentine.netlify.app/) by @withered.flowers
- [mike-astrotutorial.netlify.app](https://mike-astrotutorial.netlify.app/) by @mikeoxygen
- [thatisrich.co.uk](https://www.thatisrich.co.uk/) by @thatisrich
- [wallcreo.com](https://wallcreo.com/) by @stan.kukucka
- [osteopathe-le-thor.fr](https://osteopathe-le-thor.fr/) by @arnaud_83976
- [dan-portoflio-v3.vercel.app](https://dan-portoflio-v3.vercel.app/) by @rythmlord
- [xypnox.com](https://www.xypnox.com/blag/posts/themescura/introducing-themescura/) by @xypnox
- [photosite-3cw.pages.dev](https://photosite-3cw.pages.dev/) by @casungo
- [sanquirinoestudio.com.ar](https://sanquirinoestudio.com.ar/) by @.wateredplant
- [suplovers.co](https://suplovers.co/) by @alejostereo
- [gitarchived.org](https://gitarchived.org/) by @thebigbot

### 🐻 Starlight in the wild

- [beta.learning.nicholasdwest.com](https://beta.learning.nicholasdwest.com/) by @ndw0009
- [eddienubes.github.io](https://eddienubes.github.io/sagetest/) by [eddienubes](<https://github.com/eddienubes>) on GitHub
- [astro-snipcart.vercel.app](https://astro-snipcart.vercel.app/) by [lloydjatkinson](<https://github.com/lloydjatkinson>) on GitHub
- [zanobijs.vercel.app](https://zanobijs.vercel.app/) by [devdroide](<https://github.com/devdroide>) on GitHub
- [vue-simple-dnd.netlify.app](https://vue-simple-dnd.netlify.app/) by @florian_lefebvre

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

cc: @notify-updates