Hey everyone,
I know — it’s been a while! 😅
2025 was a very busy year for me, and Starling is — as you all know — still competing with quite a few other projects for my time. That said, there were commits in 2025, and I also had the pleasure of approving some really great contributions from you. So I’m planning to tag the current head revision as v2.8 soon.
That shouldn’t be a big deal — in theory. In practice, getting the website build pipeline running again (just for the blog post) might be… well… interesting. Ahem. 😄
But I’m getting ahead of myself. What I actually wanted to announce today is this:
👉 All chapters from the Starling Handbook have now been fully merged into the Starling Manual.
You can read the complete, updated manual here:
https://manual.starling-framework.org/en/
This step was long overdue. To be honest, I don’t think I had a single Handbook sale in 2025 — and for a long time now, that hasn’t really been the point anyway. I’m still very proud of the Handbook and believe it’s a great resource for Starling developers. For that reason, the original Handbook PDF is still available for download — unchanged from its final release.
And if you’ve never had a copy before: now’s your chance. 😃
The complete AsciiDoc-powered source of the manual is now available on GitHub as well:
https://github.com/Starling-Manual/Starling-Manual-EN/
Please consider this a small New Year’s gift to the community. 🥳🍀🎉🍾🥂
All the best for 2026, everyone — and thanks for sticking with Starling!
Cheers,
Daniel