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Astro 4.0 was released on December 5, 2023, with the new Dev Toolbar, built-in internationalization routing, experimental incremental content caching, expanded View Transition APIs, and redesigned logging. Here is what changed.

Django 5.0 was released on December 4, 2023. It added database-computed default values, generated model fields backed by database-generated columns, and a field group concept for simpler form field rendering. Here is what shipped.

Vitest 1.0 was released on December 4, 2023, its first stable major version. It added configurable pool and poolOptions, multiple parallel child processes, a provide/inject API, and in-test type checking, while requiring Node 18 to match Vite 5. Here is what changed.

Godot 4.2 was released on November 30, 2023 with more than 1,800 improvements from 359 contributors. It added the AnimationMixer node, 2D navigation mesh baking with multithreading, onion skinning, and runtime loading of OGG and SVG files. Here is what changed.

PHP 8.3 was released on November 23, 2023, adding typed class constants, the json_validate() function, an #[Override] attribute and readonly-property cloning improvements. Here is what mattered for developers.

Firefox 120 was released on November 21, 2023, adding an opt-in Global Privacy Control setting, a Copy Link Without Site Tracking feature, fingerprinting protection for Canvas APIs, and WebAssembly GC enabled by default. Here is what changed.

Vite 5 was released on November 16, 2023, upgrading to Rollup 4 for faster builds, cleaning up its API, deprecating the CommonJS Node API, requiring Node.js 18 or later, and adding a server warmup feature. Here is what changed.

Flutter 3.16 was released on November 15, 2023, making Material 3 the default theme for Material Flutter apps, bringing Impeller to Android on Vulkan behind a flag, and adding iOS app extensions support. Here is what changed.

Blender 4.0 was released on November 14, 2023. It reworked the Principled BSDF shader, added the AgX color view transform, introduced Light and Shadow Linking in Cycles, and shipped Geometry Nodes tools. Here is what changed.

.NET 8 was released on November 14, 2023, the latest LTS version with thousands of performance improvements. It shipped dynamic PGO on by default, Native AOT, the new .NET Aspire cloud-native stack, C# 12 and full-stack Blazor. Here is what changed.