Drop support for .NET 6 and .NET 7, All users and Custom User Settings deployment steps - This week in Orchard (24/11/2023)
SMTP should send the email if the SSL certificate is invalid, new All users and Custom user settings deployment steps, and drop support for .NET 6 and .NET 7 are the topics for this week. Let's check them out in detail!
Orchard Core updates
SMTP should send the email if the SSL certificate is invalid
Mailkit supports sending emails when the server's SMTP certificate is invalid. Now this function is integrated into Orchard Core. You have the choice (with a check box from the mail server settings in the admin area) to be able to bypass the invalid or self-signed certificate.
So, there is a new property called IgnoreInvalidSslCertificate that you can set to true in the settings, such that if the SMTP server certificate is not valid, then you might not care and just send the email anyway. To find this setting, don't forget to enable the Email feature. After that, you can navigate to Configuration -> Settings -> Email, where you can find the Ignore Invalid SSL Certificate checkbox.
All Users and Custom User Settings deployment steps
Now, we have two new deployment steps to export every user and to export all, or specified custom user settings. These steps contain the user's name, user ID, email of the user, password hash, security stamp, phone number, and all the important things and the custom settings of the users. And it's safe because it's a password hash, and the data protection key that created this hash is secure.
If you navigate to Configuration -> Import/Export -> Deployment Plans, you can create a new deployment plan. If you click the Manage Steps button, you will find the Add Step button, which helps you to add deployment steps to your plan. If you filter on the user keyword, you will find these new steps.
Drop support for .NET 6 and .NET 7
The latest LTS version of one of the world's leading development platforms was released on November 14, 2023. And Orchard Core now supports .NET 8! It also means that the upcoming version of Orchard will not support .NET 6 and .NET 7. Our practice has always been to support the latest LTS version of .NET, and additionally, the latest version if it's different. Dropping older versions allows us to use new features from .NET 8, and drop packages that are not required anymore (like NewtonSoft.Json). It should be as easy as updating the target framework in the websites that decide to upgrade to the next Orchard Core version.
If you head to the documentation of the upcoming Orchard Core release, you will notice this breaking change there as well.
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