# Astro 2.5

DevFeed: [Astro 2.5](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/astro-2-5-3166.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://astro.build/blog/astro-250/>)

Author: Matthew Phillips; Ben Holmes; Erika; Bjorn Lu

Published: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [The Astro Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-astro-blog.md>)

Topics: [modern web development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-web-development.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [astro](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/astro.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [validation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/validation.md>)

## AI overview

Astro 2.5 adds data collections and references, experimental hybrid rendering and custom client directives, HTML minification, parallelized rendering, and a polymorphic type helper.

## Source excerpt

Data collections - Hybrid rendering - Custom client directives - HTML minification - Parallelized rendering - Polymorphic type helper - More!