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Astra

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Velocity5.0

Lightweight, customizable WordPress theme for websites and stores

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Astra is spending the WordPress 7.1 cycle paying down bugs, not shipping features.

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◆Current state
Astra ships the free theme and the Pro addon on separate version trains that release the same morning. The latest pair marks both as tested against WordPress 7.1: the theme adds only a misaligned WooCommerce cart row and a Customizer focus-outline fix, while Pro makes Site Builder report its own failures instead of bouncing users back to the dashboard with no explanation, and repairs an empty My Account menu for WooCommerce Memberships stores. No feature work appears anywhere in the current window.
◆Where it's heading
The arc is stabilization, not expansion. Several releases exist only to undo damage from the previous one - 4.13.8 reversed an Elementor color change introduced in 4.13.7 - which points to a codebase absorbing successive WordPress admin transitions and the surrounding plugin ecosystem rather than building on top of it. Compatibility work with Elementor, WooCommerce, WPML and now core 7.1 dominates the changelog, and the Pro entries increasingly deal with Site Builder reliability.
◆Prediction
Expect the 4.13.x cadence to continue on both trains with compatibility and security fixes; nothing in these entries signals a feature release, so when the next one arrives is not readable from this feed.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Site Builder now reports failed requests and stopped snippets

    The Pro half of the same-morning pair, and despite the WordPress 7.1 headline the substance is Site Builder failing loudly instead of silently - failed requests and stopped snippets now explain themselves - plus an empty My Account menu fix for WooCommerce Memberships. Error visibility is the recurring Pro theme this cycle.

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  2. 15d ago

    Astra v4.13.10 – Ready for WordPress 7.1

    The free theme's half of the pair: tested against WordPress 7.1, with a misaligned classic Cart row and a Customizer color-picker focus outline as the only changes. Small and exactly on the stabilization pattern.

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  3. 23d ago

    Astra Pro v4.13.7 – A round of fixes

    A Pro fix round covering sticky headers, blank Post Filters pages and a stuck update notice, carrying a Site Builder security hardening fix that made it worth installing promptly.

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  4. 23d ago

    Astra v4.13.9 – A faster mobile header and a round of fixes

    The theme release that did contain something users would notice - a lighter, right-sized mobile logo - alongside WPML, WooCommerce and header builder cleanups.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Astra v4.13.8 – Your Elementor colors stay put

    A single-purpose release reversing the Elementor color regression that 4.13.7 introduced, the clearest example of the undo pattern in this window.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Astra v4.13.7 – Small fixes in all the right places

    A cleanup pass over a Stripe checkout blocker, disappearing header shortcodes and multilingual font loading - no features, by its own description.

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