Distillation

Date: Jul 21, 2026

• 🔴 [requested-upgrade] (12:58) User answered assistant's Dependabot-handling question with "Everything now incl. Astro 7" — decided to fix all 5 advisories including the major Astro 6→7 upgrade, superseding assistant's earlier recommended plan of deferring the Astro 7 major upgrade as a separate task.
• 🟡 (12:58) Assistant created 6-item todo list for the Astro 7 upgrade: 1. Review Astro 6->7 migration guide for breaking changes (in_progress, high), 2. Bump astro to ^7.1.0, @astrojs/mdx compatible, @astrojs/rss 4.0.19 in package.json (pending, high), 3. Update lockfile and check peer deps esbuild >=0.28.1 (pending, high), 4. Fix any breaking-change code issues surfaced by the build (pending, high), 5. Run build and verify output — pages, RSS, OG tags, canonical (pending, high), 6. Commit and push; confirm Dependabot alerts clear (pending, medium).
• 🟡 (12:58) Tool result: fetched Astro v7 migration guide (docs.astro.build "Upgrade to Astro v7") listing breaking changes — Dependency Upgrades, Experimental Flags, Rust compiler, reserved file name src/fetch.ts, new default Markdown processor "Sätteri", new default whitespace handling compressHTML: 'jsx'; Deprecated: getContainerRenderer() from integration package roots; Removed: @astrojs/db, removed exposed astro:transitions internals.
• 🟡 (12:58) Assistant identified 4 project-relevant breaking changes to investigate: (1) new default Markdown processor "Sätteri" — @astrojs/markdown-remark no longer installed by default, and markdown.remarkPlugins now requires it installed; project's wordCount remark plugin is configured in astro.config.mjs via the mdx() integration's remarkPlugins (not markdown.remarkPlugins), unclear if MDX still uses unified — flagged for verification; (2) Vite 8 (used via @tailwindcss/vite) — needs build verification; (3) compressHTML: 'jsx' new default — could strip whitespace between inline elements, cosmetic risk; (4) Rust compiler now stricter about unclosed/invalid HTML tags — could surface new build errors in .astro files.
• 🟡 (12:58) Assistant's next planned step: check RSS rendering (AstroContainer + MDX) and the wordCount remark-plugin wiring as the highest-risk spots before proceeding with the version bump.