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Every shipped update across the Astro, Next.js andSvelteKit starter kits - features, fixes and breaking changes, in reverse-chronological order.

2026

03 releases

  1. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Documentation AI assistant is now included in the Astro starter kit via CrawlChat. Your customers can now add an Ask AI widget to their documentation sites and support portals, providing users with fast, accurate, and citation-backed answers directly from your product docs. The integration supports embedding the agent, omni-channel support (including Discord, Slack, and API), and helps reduce repetitive support requests by delivering AI-powered, source-linked responses right where users need them.

  2. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Social posts scheduling is now built into the Astro starter kit (powered by Orshot). After a user signs in, they can use their Orshot API Key workspace and manage social media publishing flows from your dashboard (including instant posts, drafts, and scheduled publishes) to linked social accounts. Each of your customers get the ability to schedule social media posting without leaving your product.

  3. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit

    • You can now use any MySQL connection with the LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit, including MySQL-compatible databases like MariaDB (for example, via XAMPP for local development). (documentation)

2025

23 releases

  1. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • 🎉 Exciting news! The LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit now supports AutoSend for email delivery, joining our existing email provider integrations with Mailgun, Resend, Postmark, and SendGrid.

  2. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Added schema support for expiring tokens to improve security (commit)
    • Implemented a secure password reset flow using time-limited tokens (commit)
    • Introduced a password strength indicator on registration and password change forms (commit)
    • Enforced stronger password requirements: minimum 12 characters, mixed case, numbers, and symbols (commit)
    • Passwords are now hashed using scrypt with proper salt generation for enhanced security (commit)

  3. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • 🚀 Basic Authorization is now available via Astro middleware in the LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit! You can easily protect routes and implement simple access control using the new built-in middleware to help you with development protection, client demos and staging environments.

  4. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • To use Postgres as your database, you now need to specify both POSTGRES_POOLED_URL and POSTGRES_DIRECT_URL environment variables. This is important so that you can use the latter to run the schema migrations and the former in your application to have more than limited connections Postgres comes with.

  5. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Now, the server state for login flows (auth, magic links, and forgot password) is communicated to the front-end via server side or client side messages (automatically shown to the user in a toast).

  7. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Removed all the references (functions and mentions) to the old user_info table.

    New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

  8. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • client_x509_cert_url variable in the Firebase config is now a runtime environment variable.

  9. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • 🎉 Exciting news! The LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit now supports Magic Link authentication for both sign-in and sign-up! We’ve integrated with Resend, Postmark, and SendGrid to make your authentication process seamless and secure.

  10. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast SvelteKit Starter Kit

    • HUGE! The starter kit is now ready to deploy to Cloudflare Workers and Pages with full features parity. Today, LaunchFast starter kits have become the perfect starter kits that are truly runtime agnostic and work with most of the services out there. Some of the changes that have come during this refractor:
      • Usage of aws4fetch instead of @aws-sdk
      • Usage of HTTP APIs instead of SQLite specific module
      • Usage of postgres instead of @neondatabase/serverless
      • Dropped usage of firebase-admin against custom implementation of HTTP APIs to interact with Firebase and Firestore
      • Using unstorage for a database agnostic interface

  11. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit

    • HUGE! The starter kit is now ready to deploy to Cloudflare Workers and Pages with full features parity. Today, LaunchFast starter kits have become the perfect starter kits that are truly runtime agnostic and work with most of the services out there. Some of the changes that have come during this refractor:
      • Usage of aws4fetch instead of @aws-sdk
      • Usage of HTTP APIs instead of SQLite specific module
      • Usage of postgres instead of @neondatabase/serverless
      • Dropped usage of firebase-admin against custom implementation of HTTP APIs to interact with Firebase and Firestore
      • Using unstorage for a database agnostic interface

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Indexes for pagefind are built in parallel for better build times.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • The API call to SQLite Cloud now uses bind parameter which allows you to pass the parameters define in your sql.

  12. Dependencies ⚙️

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Dependencies have been updated to their latest versions.

  13. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Upon request, the search functionality in blogs is now an optional and configurable via the environment variable named BLOG_SEARCH.

  14. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • HUGE! The starter kit is now ready to deploy to Cloudflare Workers and Pages with full features parity. Today, LaunchFast starter kits have become the perfect starter kits that are truly runtime agnostic and work with most of the services out there. Some of the changes that have come during this refractor:
      • Usage of astro:env instead of using process.env
      • Usage of aws4fetch instead of @aws-sdk
      • Usage of HTTP APIs instead of SQLite specific module
      • Usage of postgres instead of @neondatabase/serverless
      • Dropped usage of firebase-admin against custom implementation of HTTP APIs to interact with Firebase and Firestore
      • Using unstorage for a database agnostic interface

  15. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • SQLite providers (Turso and SQLite Cloud) can now be queried directly from the edge / Cloudflare Workers and Pages!

  16. Dependencies ⚙️

    LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit

  17. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit

    • HUGE! The entire starter kit is now migrated to App Router.

  18. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit

    • We’ve upgraded the credentials authentication (powered by Auth.js) to v5 (beta).

  20. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • We’ve upgraded the Astro version to v5.5.2.

    • In efforts to start making this starter kit Cloudflare Workers friendly, we have:

      • moved from ioredis to redis-on-workers with a custom patch that allows you to make requests to any Redis from the edge.
      • moved from pg to postgres to be able for you for to make requests to any Postgres from the edge.
      • moved from @libsql/client to @libsql/client/web to be able for you for to make requests to Turso from the edge.
      • moved from @libsql/client to @sqlitecloud/drivers to be able for you for to make requests to SQLite Cloud from the edge.
      • currently working on figuring out edge compatible drop-ins for mongodb and firebase-admin.

    • We’ve shipped a changelog page (https://launchfast-astro.launchfast.workers.dev/changelog) to the Astro starter kit. Keep your users informed from day one!

    • We’ve removed the react integration in favor of using client side fetches and state updates. Focusing on Less JavaScript!

    LaunchFast SvelteKit Starter Kit

    • In efforts to start making this starter kit more Cloudflare Workers friendly, we have:

      • moved from ioredis to redis-on-workers with a custom patch that allows you to make requests to any Redis from the edge.
      • moved from pg to postgres to be able for you for to make requests to any Postgres from the edge.
      • moved from @libsql/client to @libsql/client/web to be able for you for to make requests to Turso from the edge.
      • moved from @libsql/client to @sqlitecloud/drivers to be able for you for to make requests to SQLite Cloud from the edge.
      • currently working on figuring out edge compatible drop-ins for mongodb and firebase-admin.

    • We’ve shipped a changelog page (https://launchfast-sveltekit.launchfast.workers.dev/changelog) to the Astro starter kit. Keep your users informed from day one!

  21. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • Super excited to share that we have shipped Auth.js as the authentication provider for the Astro starter kit.
    • We’ve upgraded TailwindCSS to v4 in the starter kit.

  23. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • We’ve shipped a Search component for blogs that you can use anywhere in your website to allow users to search from.
    • We’ve added password validation to ensure that your users sign up with “safer” credentials.
    • We’ve added error messages that are now shown as toasts in the application to keep your users informed of what’s happening in the system.

2024

10 releases

  1. New Features 🔥

    LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit

    • You can now authenticate users using GitHub OAuth 2.0 🎉

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • Replace Polar with Lemon Squeezy checkout links checkout links across all LaunchFast repositories.

  2. Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • Disabled next-themes in Fumadocs integration in LaunchFast Next.js repository.
    • Replace Lemon Squeezy checkout links with Polar checkout links across all LaunchFast repositories.

  3. New Features 🔥

    • All the uploads are now moved to in-browser pre-signed url uploads across all LaunchFast repositories.
    • Type definitions in Upload component is added to make sure that the completions are available in IDE.
    • Removed firebase package in favor of firebase-admin.
    • All images are lazy loaded, except the ones that are in the first view of any page.

  4. New Features 🔥

    • Added an /upload page to showcase the use of the in-built <Upload /> component.
    • Now you can have your users delete avatar in the dashboard.
    • Header links are now automatically highlighted on apt pages.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • Replaced all hardcoded <svg> to use icons by Iconify from the LaunchFast SvelteKit repository.
    • Fix the comma in the avatar in LaunchFast Next.js repository.

  5. New Features

    • LaunchFast Next.js repository now uses Next.js 15.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • Removed remark-flexible-toc in LaunchFast Next.js repository.
    • Added .content-collections to .gitignore in LaunchFast Next.js repository.
    • Removed extensions from the svelte.config.ts for the LaunchFast SvelteKit repository.
    • Fixed responsiveness in toc and sidebar in the documentation framework for the LaunchFast SvelteKit repository.

  6. New Features 🔥

    • Automated next and previous blog and documentation cards to respective content.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • Pagefind’s native search UI is updated to use Inter font.
    • Seperated content from the src directory to seperate content from the application level code.
    • Removed mdsvex from the LaunchFast SvelteKit repository.

  7. New Features 🔥

    • Added a beautifully designed, responsive and fully dynamic documentation framework (in Svelte) that comes with search capabilities to LaunchFast’s SvelteKit repository.
    • Improved blogs across all templates to be fully dynamic, so you can just create blogs and the routing is taken care of automatically.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • SEO component in SvelteKit framework is now used on each page, instead of relying on global Layout’s <head> tag.

  8. New Features 🔥

    • Automatic fallback avatar for a logged in user is created if no image is found.

    Bugs & Fixes ⚔️

    • SvelteKit repository is updated to fully leverage Authjs.dev by removing custom OAuth 2.0 implementation.
    • NProgress is now working again with the updated dependenices (and the latest versions) of the respective frameworks.

  9. New Features 🔥

    • Collections are sorted by descending order based on the date attribute in LaunchFast Next.js repository.

  10. New Features 🔥

    • You can now use Firestore as the database provider in your app.

    Dependencies ⚙️

    • LaunchFast starter kits dependencies have been updated to their latest versions.