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What’s new in Svelte: December 2023

Svelte Summit Fall 2023 was epic! Featuring talks from across the ecosystem and the launches from the core team of new Svelte Dev Tools, image optimization, and a preview version of Svelte 5.0! The

Announcing SvelteKit 2

Version 2.0 of SvelteKit (https://kit.svelte.dev), the official framework for building apps with Svelte, is now available. It is an incremental release that adds support for the newly-released Vite 5

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What’s new in Svelte: January 2024

Happy New Year! It's been a busy month for the Svelte maintainers - with tons of new features dropping in the Svelte 5 preview and the release of SvelteKit 2 (/blog/sveltekit-2)! You can find all

What’s new in Svelte: February 2024

Since SvelteKit 2.0 released late last year, there's been a bunch of new features to make the Kit dev experience even better! Meanwhile the Svelte team has been hard at work making Svelte 5 a

What’s new in Svelte: March 2024

This month, the Svelte maintainers made a ton of progress on Svelte 5 and Rich Harris talked to Prismic about how the team is working on making the framework even better. Lots to showcase too... so

What’s new in Svelte: April 2024

Spring is just around the corner (for half the globe at least), which means Svelte Summit Spring (https://www.sveltesummit.com/) is coming soon! The event will be streamed on the Svelte Society

Svelte 5 Release Candidate

Svelte 5 is now in the Release Candidate phase. This means that the design of the framework is largely settled, with no anticipated breaking changes between now and the stable release, and that the

What’s new in Svelte: May 2024

Svelte Summit was last week - featuring a number of fantastic talks from across the community. In the final talk, What You Can Do For Your Framework, Rich Harris (with a little help from PuruVJ's

What’s new in Svelte: June 2024

The maintainers have been hard at work getting the Svelte 5 Release Candidate (/blog/svelte-5-release-candidate) ready for release. In this month's newsletter, you'll find highlights from the

What’s new in Svelte: July 2024

This month, we got a bunch of new features in the Svelte 5 release candidate, Rich Harris explained to Prismic's CEO (https://www.youtube.com/live/uWLTDUjNrhQ) how Svelte optimizes for vibes and

What’s new in Svelte: August 2024

The ramp up to the Svelte 5 release has led to a bunch of huge improvements to both performance and customizability. Also in this month's round-up: some minor SvelteKit updates and a return of the

What’s new in Svelte: September 2024

A bunch of updates to Svelte dropped in the last few weeks, plus a few quality of life improvements in the Svelte language tools. Let's take a look... What's new in Svelte and Language Tools

What’s new in Svelte: October 2024

It's October! Which can only mean one thing... Svelte Summit Fall (https://www.sveltesummit.com/2024/fall) is only 19 days away! Stay up to date with the latest Svelte Summit news by subscribing to

The Omnisite

Launching Svelte 5 (svelte-5-is-alive) and the brand new sv CLI wasn't enough: we've also released a brand new website. You're looking at it. Up until now, we've maintained multiple different sites

Svelte 5 is alive

After almost 18 months of development, comprising thousands of commits from dozens of contributors, Svelte 5 is finally stable. It’s the most significant release in the project’s history. Svelte

Introducing the new Svelte CLI

We’ve just released sv (https://npmjs.com/package/sv), a new Command Line Interface (CLI) for creating, enhancing, and upgrading Svelte projects. One of the most common question we hear is "how do

Advent of Svelte

Last December, Svelte Society (https://bsky.app/profile/sveltesociety.dev) presented an advent calendar's worth of festive Svelte-themed code challenges (https://advent.sveltesociety.dev/). This

What’s new in Svelte: December 2024

I can't believe it's already the last newsletter of the year! So much has happened in the Svelte community - from two great Svelte Summits to the release Svelte 5 🎉 As we look forward to the next

What’s new in Svelte: January 2025

From new syntax to improved dev tooling, the Svelte team has been busy this month building new features in both Svelte and SvelteKit. And as we round the corner into the new year, there's even more