# What's new in Svelte: February 2023

DevFeed: [What's new in Svelte: February 2023](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-svelte-february-2023-3076.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-february-2023>)

Author: Dani Sandoval

Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Svelte blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/svelte-blog.md>)

Topics: [Svelte](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svelte.md>), [remote-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/remote-development.md>), [vs-code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vs-code.md>)

Tags: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [svelte](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/svelte.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

This February 2023 update covers Svelte and SvelteKit releases, bug fixes, new features, remote development support, and improvements to the Svelte extension and language tools.

## Source excerpt

Since last month, we've seen a couple of minor versions across Svelte and SvelteKit, a bunch of educational content to support the 1.0 release, as well as the State of JS survey results... Svelte, once again, increased in satisfaction and interest, so thanks to everyone who voted! Let's dive into the updates... What's new in SvelteKit Work in the Svelte ecosystem this month has been focused on SvelteKit bug fixes and addressing feedback from the 1.0 launch. One of the more awaited bug fixes to SvelteKit's base path support landed, which means that you can now create SvelteKit projects on remote development environments. There have been several new releases with these fixes as well as a handful of new features such as: The submitter's value will now be included automatically when progressively enhancing (1.0.3, #8273) Added an error in dev mode if global fetch is used with relative URL (1.0.8, #8370) A warning will now indicated that hydration may break if comments are removed from HTML (1.0.11, #8423) A warning will occur when of page options are used in .svelte files or a missing <slot /> in layout is detected (1.1.0, #8475) The new text(...) helper makes it easy to generate text responses (1.2.0, #8371) The public env can now be accessed within app.html (1.2.0, Docs, #8449) An error will now be thrown if cookie exceeds size limit (1.2.1, #8591) The generated tsconfig can now be modified (1.3.0, #8606) What's new in Svelte and Language Tools Added support for html.customData from the VS Code HTML language service (extensions-107.0.0, #1824) Autocompletion for stores that need to be imported (#1823) and object/class member snippets (#1817) has been added to the Svelte extension (extensions-107.0.0) Improve detection of promises that are also functions (Svelte 3.55.1, #8162) Add missing types and properties for the global part attribute and on:submit, respectively (Svelte 3.55.1, #8181) Lots of performance and bug fixes (Svelte 3.55.1* and extensions-107.0.x) *for al