# Improved Visual Editing for Astro, new beta EditPortal component + improvements and bugfixes

**Version:** v3.70.0

**Published:** January 14, 2025

# ✨ Highlights

## Improvements to Visual Editing

This release includes several changes across the `@sanity/astro` and `@sanity/visual-editing` packages, resulting in a more stable Visual Editing experience with Astro and a smoother initial setup:

- A React 19 peer dependency issue was fixed in `@sanity/astro` version `3.1.9` that caused errors in new projects setup using Astro’s CLI tool.
- Added support for libraries publishing pre-compiled code with the React Compiler to the Astro codebase.
- Previously, Visual Editing overlays would lose their titles/preview information after a change had been made when working with an Astro project. This is now fixed.

## Other features

- The `sanity` package now exports an experimental `EditPortal` component, which allows users to create `Dialog` or `Popover` components that include Presence and scroll virtualization out of the box, like so:

```diff
import React, {useRef, useState} from 'react'
+import {EditPortal} from 'sanity'

 export const CustomFormDialog: React.FC<Props> = ({parentProps, paths, onClose}) => {
   return (
-     <Dialog header="Edit Link" id="edit-link" animate width={600} onClose={onClose} zOffset={1000}>
+     <EditPortal header="Edit Link" id="edit-link" animate width={600} onClose={onClose} zOffset={1000}>
       ...rest
-      </Dialog>
+     </EditPortal>
```

# 🐛 Notable bugfixes

- Fixes a case where the commands `schema extract`, `manifest extract`, `graphql deploy`, `documents validate` or `schema validate` would never complete.
- Fixes an issue in Vision where the cursor would sometimes jump to the beginning of the editor.

# Install or upgrade Sanity Studio

To initiate a new Sanity Studio project or upgrade an existing one, please refer to our comprehensive guide on [Installing and Upgrading Sanity Studio](https://www.sanity.io/docs/upgrade).

If you are updating from a version earlier than [3.37.0](https://www.sanity.io/changelog/93306939-973b-4e48-bb63-89a6b91d70b3), you should also check out [this article](https://www.sanity.io/help/upgrade-packages) to ensure your dependencies are up to date.