---
title: "Changelog"
description: "Product updates and release notes for LaunchFast starter kits."
source: "https://www.launchfa.st/changelog"
---
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## 3 Aug. 2026
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- 🎉 Exciting news! The LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit now [supports MailKite for transactional email delivery](https://www.launchfa.st/documentation/emails/mailkite/), joining our existing email provider integrations with AutoSend, Mailgun, Resend, Postmark, and SendGrid. Set `EMAIL_PROVIDER` to `mailkite`, add your `MAILKITE_API_KEY`, and every transactional email in your app (verification, magic links, password resets) routes through MailKite with no other code changes.
## 19 May. 2026
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- **Documentation AI assistant** is now included in the Astro starter kit via [CrawlChat](https://crawlchat.app/). 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.
## 16 May. 2026
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- **Social posts scheduling** is now built into the Astro starter kit (powered by [Orshot](https://orshot.com)). After a user signs in, they can use their [Orshot API Key](https://orshot.com/docs/quick-start/get-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.
## 21 Apr. 2026
### 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](/documentation/database/mysql/))
## 22 Nov. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- 🎉 Exciting news! The LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit now [supports AutoSend for email delivery](https://www.launchfa.st/documentation/emails/autosend/), joining our existing email provider integrations with Mailgun, Resend, Postmark, and SendGrid.
## 17 Jul. 2025
### Bugs & Fixes ⚔️
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- Added schema support for expiring tokens to improve security ([commit](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/f0eb5df8c67d30dea359df6909300efb41bf3e73))
- Implemented a secure password reset flow using time-limited tokens ([commit](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/cb2431353c6c10bd63f76ef2ca89ea5d965b0f46))
- Introduced a password strength indicator on registration and password change forms ([commit](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/2c3c4dab870d018d64e285bfa92fb32f29d321f1))
- Enforced stronger password requirements: minimum 12 characters, mixed case, numbers, and symbols ([commit](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/4662a538df955380b6b0ef4f9743508ba43570a3))
- Passwords are now hashed using scrypt with proper salt generation for enhanced security ([commit](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/efdd21cdcbf5094c706f439d0043166b8b44f3ab))
## 16 Jul. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- 🚀 [Basic Authorization](/blog/implement-basic-authorization-astro) is now available via [Astro middleware](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/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.
## 12 Jul. 2025
### 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.
## 10 Jul. 2025
### 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).
## 3 Jul. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- 🎉 Exciting news! The Astro starter kit now supports [Cloudflare D1 as one of the SQLite options](https://www.launchfa.st/documentation/database/sqlite/), giving you even more flexibility for your database needs.
## 7 Jun. 2025
### 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
- 🎉 Exciting news! The LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit now [supports Mailgun for transactional email delivery](https://www.launchfa.st/documentation/emails/mailgun/), joining our existing email provider integrations with Resend, Postmark, and SendGrid.
## 24 Apr. 2025
### Bugs & Fixes ⚔️
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- `client_x509_cert_url` variable in the Firebase config is now a runtime environment variable.
## 22 Apr. 2025
### 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](https://resend.com), [Postmark](https://postmarkapp.com), and [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com) to make your authentication process seamless and secure.
## 19 Apr. 2025
### 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
## 17 Apr. 2025
### 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`.
## 16 Apr. 2025
### Dependencies ⚙️
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- Dependencies have been updated to their latest versions.
## 15 Apr. 2025
### 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 Apr. 2025
### 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
## 13 Apr. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- SQLite providers (Turso and SQLite Cloud) can now be queried directly from the `edge` / Cloudflare Workers and Pages!
## 23 Mar. 2025
### Dependencies ⚙️
#### LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit
- Updated the `next` version as an effect of [cve-2025-29927](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f82v-jwr5-mffw).
## 17 Mar. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit
- HUGE! The entire starter kit is now migrated to App Router.
## 16 Mar. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Next.js Starter Kit
- We've upgraded the credentials authentication (powered by Auth.js) to v5 (beta).
## 15 Mar. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- We've upgraded the [credentials authentication (powered by Auth.js)](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/blob/master/auth.config.ts#L62-L113) to use any database for storing and retrieving sessions.
## 14 Mar. 2025
### 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!
## 7 Mar. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- Super excited to share that we have shipped [Auth.js](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/c9509ae69f254c5e0e8a77f8c23231b23606ac4f) as the authentication provider for the Astro starter kit.
- We've upgraded [TailwindCSS to v4](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/c9509ae69f254c5e0e8a77f8c23231b23606ac4f) in the starter kit.
## 1 Mar. 2025
### New Features 🔥
- You can now deploy LaunchFast SvelteKit Starter Kit to Cloudflare Pages! Check out the demo at https://launchfast-sveltekit.pages.dev/.
## 27 Jan. 2025
### New Features 🔥
#### LaunchFast Astro Starter Kit
- We've [shipped a `Search` component](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/2ea7487453ea025d3aaf09745ccefbfabe71e13b) for blogs that you can use anywhere in your website to allow users to search from.
- We've added [password validation](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/a7fd08adfb60a225fa446ab4552ca5d318b5c519#diff-a7a8e1c4245dd35a026a6c9f94c88520a0bb029279347f81748a01f32fab235b) to ensure that your users sign up with "safer" credentials.
- We've [added error messages](https://github.com/LaunchFast-Boilerplates/launchfa.st-astro/commit/c5a4181feecd60f9cfccaf5910c610656d119ba1) that are now shown as toasts in the application to keep your users informed of what's happening in the system.
## 4 Dec. 2024
### 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.
## 24 Nov. 2024
### Bugs & Fixes ⚔️
- Disabled `next-themes` in Fumadocs integration in LaunchFast Next.js repository.
- Replace Lemon Squeezy checkout links with [Polar](https://polar.sh/templates) checkout links across all LaunchFast repositories.
## 17 Nov. 2024
### 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.
## 16 Nov. 2024
### New Features 🔥
- Added an `/upload` page to showcase the use of the in-built `` 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 `