🍿 Minor Changes

• #4015 6fd161d76 Thanks @matthewp! - New output configuration option

  This change introduces a new “output target” configuration option (output). Setting the output target lets you decide the format of your final build, either:

  • "static" (default): A static site. Your final build will be a collection of static assets (HTML, CSS, JS) that you can deploy to any static site host.
  • "server": A dynamic server application. Your final build will be an application that will run in a hosted server environment, generating HTML dynamically for different requests.

  If output is omitted from your config, the default value "static" will be used.

  When using the "server" output target, you must also include a runtime adapter via the adapter configuration. An adapter will adapt your final build to run on the deployed platform of your choice (Netlify, Vercel, Node.js, Deno, etc).

  To migrate: No action is required for most users. If you currently define an adapter, you will need to also add output: 'server' to your config file to make it explicit that you are building a server. Here is an example of what that change would look like for someone deploying to Netlify:

  import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
  import netlify from '@astrojs/netlify/functions';
  
  export default defineConfig({
    adapter: netlify(),
   output: 'server',
  });

• #3570 04070c0c1 Thanks @matthewp! - Bump to Vite 3!

• #4013 ef9345767 Thanks @tony-sull! - - Fixes two bugs that were blocking SSR support when deployed to a hosting service

  • The built-in sharp service now automatically rotates images based on EXIF data

🐞 Patch Changes

• #3961 d73c04a9e Thanks @tony-sull! - Updates the component to pass the alt attribute down to the element

• #4021 9aecf7c7c Thanks @delucis! - Handle EXIF orientation flag

• #4048 e60d6d9c1 Thanks @tony-sull! - Removes Node’s fileURLToPath dependency in the production SSR endpoint

• #4004 ef9c4152b Thanks @sarah11918! - [READMEs] removed “experimental” from astro add instructions

• #3980 eaf187f2c Thanks @tony-sull! - Fixing TypeScript definition exports for image components