Changelog

Northbound

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

10 releases

Contents
  1. October 14, 2026
  2. September 3, 2026
  3. August 15, 2026
  4. August 9, 2026
  5. June 23, 2026
  6. June 11, 2026
  7. March 29, 2026
  8. January 18, 2026
  9. January 18, 2026
  10. November 14, 2025

October 14, 2026 — Update

  • A cleaner Northbound: five colour tokens replace the old accent and base scales, and every page is now built from section components.
  • Lenis smooth scroll, and the home page slider on keen-slider installed from npm instead of a CDN.
  • Redesigned system pages (overview, colours, buttons, links, typography) in Northbound’s own style, with the overview split into static pages and content collections.
  • Fresh names for the couple and wedding party, real image descriptions, placeholder contacts and no external links.
  • Site search, blog tags and tag pages, the MDX integration and the scrollbar plugin are gone.
  • Rewritten AGENTS.md and design skill.

September 3, 2026 — Update

  • Expanded the design system skill at .cursor/skills/northbound-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 9, 2026 — Update

  • Added a new Astro + EmDash CMS variant: built-in admin at /_emdash/admin, six collections (events, gallery, people, wishlist, blog, locations), LiveSearch across all collections, and Cloudflare Workers deploy (D1 + R2).
  • Includes buyer docs (STARTING-UP.md, SEO.md, AGENTS.md), route audit script, 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 18, 2026 — Update

  • Upgraded to Sanity v5.0.0

January 18, 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.

November 14, 2025 — Release

  • Initial release