Changelog

Newport

What changed in Newport: updates, fixes, and improvements to the theme.

9 releases

Contents
  1. October 14, 2026
  2. September 3, 2026
  3. August 15, 2026
  4. August 8, 2026
  5. June 23, 2026
  6. June 11, 2026
  7. March 29, 2026
  8. January 22, 2026
  9. December 6, 2025

October 14, 2026 — Update

  • A cleaner Newport: six colour tokens replace the old secondary, accent and base scales, and every page is now built from section components.
  • Navigation with a single Buy button, Lenis smooth scroll, and site search on Fuse.js installed from npm instead of a CDN.
  • Images converted to webp: 3.7 MB instead of 45 MB.
  • Redesigned system pages (overview, colours), with the overview split into static pages and content collections.
  • Fresh board member names, footer legal links pointing at the real legal pages, placeholder contacts and no external links.
  • Blog tags and tag pages, the MDX integration and unused images are gone.
  • Rewritten AGENTS.md, Cursor rules and design skill.

September 3, 2026 — Update

  • Expanded the design system skill at .cursor/skills/newport-design/SKILL.md: typography, color usage, spacing rhythm, component conventions, and do/don’t rules extracted from the theme’s own code, so AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) build UI that matches the theme.
  • AGENTS.md links the design rules in every variant.

August 15, 2026 — Update

  • Refreshed Astro + Tailwind CSS dependencies to latest stable releases.
  • Refreshed Astro + Sanity CMS variant dependencies (astro@7.2.2, Tailwind v4.3.3, Sanity v6.9.x, and related packages).
  • Updated integrations and related packages (@lexingtonthemes/seo, @astrojs/*, Tailwind).
  • Refreshed Astro + EmDash CMS variant dependencies (astro@7.2.2, Tailwind v4.3.3, EmDash v0.33.x, and related packages).

August 8, 2026 — Update

  • Added a new Astro + EmDash CMS variant: built-in admin at /_emdash/admin, Portable Text content for announcements, documents, events, amenities, board profiles, blog posts, and legal pages, LiveSearch across all collections, CMS menus, and Cloudflare Workers deploy (D1 + R2).
  • Includes buyer docs (STARTING-UP.md, SEO.md, AGENTS.md), Cursor rules, and a local SQLite + npm run setup workflow.
  • The Astro + Tailwind CSS and Astro + Sanity CMS variants are unchanged in this release.

June 23, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Astro v7 stable (7.0.0) — no longer on beta.
  • The Astro + Sanity CMS variant front-end has also been updated to Astro v7 stable.
  • Refreshed integrations and dependencies (@lexingtonthemes/seo, @astrojs/*, Tailwind).

June 11, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Astro v7 and Tailwind CSS v4.
  • The Astro + Sanity CMS variant has been upgraded to Astro v7, Tailwind CSS v4, and Sanity v6.
  • Updated integrations and dependencies for v7 compatibility.

March 29, 2026 — Update

  • Added AGENTS.md and Cursor rules (.cursor/rules) for AI-assisted development, on both the Astro + Tailwind CSS and Astro + Sanity CMS versions, each adapted to its repo layout.

January 22, 2026 — Update

  • Added a new variant with Sanity CMS integration with a ready-to-use Sanity Studio and full Astro front-end support.
  • Introduced CMS-powered content types for editorial workflows.
  • Now available as part of the new Full Access and Agency tiers.

December 6, 2025 — Release

  • Initial release