Astral · Company blog · 1 a month · 42 posts since Apr 18, 2023
Oct 27
We're releasing tar-codec, a new tar encoding/decoding library for Rust. tar-codec is already the default in uv, and improves uv's tar handling performance by over 2x while also improving our posture against archive differentials.
Oct 13
Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.
Sep 4
Astral is proud to endorse William Woodruff, Pradyun Gedam, Ralf Gommers, and Donald Stufft for the inaugural Python Packaging Council.
Jun 8
Find vulnerabilities in your Python dependencies with uv audit and prevent installation of known malware with uv's experimental malware detection.
Apr 8
Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.
Mar 19
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
Dec 16, 2025
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
Aug 28, 2025
One year later: Astral donated $70,000 to open source projects and is pledging another $44,000 for year two.
Aug 13, 2025
In collaboration with PyTorch, NVIDIA, and Quansight, we've released an experimental build of uv with support for wheel variants.
Aug 13, 2025
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
Aug 7, 2025
We're releasing a security advisory for uv due to ZIP parsing differentials which allow an attacker to bypass common Python security scanners.
Dec 3, 2024
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
Aug 20, 2024
Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.
Jul 18, 2024
Astral is creating a fund to support open source projects and maintainers.
Astral's own blog, found on astral.sh by the daily check; not reviewed yet.
Developer tools (4), Product and company (1), Security (1) in the last six months.
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