Unlock Agent-to-Agent Communication in Orchard Core today! This time, Mike Alhayek shows the A2A modules, which bring the Agent-to-Agent protocol to Orchard Core, enabling tenants to connect to remote agents or expose local agent profiles to other clients.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, the admin UI just got a usability boost with alphabetical role sorting, making user management-related operations cleaner and faster.

Mike Alhayek added new events to the IDocumentIndexHandler needed to allow other projects to implement more complex synchronization, such as when an index is updated or when another data source is updated. It means these events help keep external systems in sync with changes to the document index.

And the community is buzzing too! Nick Jackson has kicked off an important discussion: Who should the new OrchardCore.net website speak to? Head over to GitHub, read the proposal, and make your voice heard. This is your chance to shape the future of the Orchard Core website.

Have you ever wondered how AI stays personalized across sessions? This week, Mike Alhayek shows the AI Memory feature, which introduces persistent, user-scoped memory that enables personalized experiences across conversations!

The global file upload limit configuration makes it easier and more consistent to manage upload restrictions across actions. Hisham Bin Ateya added a new section to the Orchard Core documentation explaining how file upload limits work and how to customize them.

Thanks to Sotiris Roussos, developers also gain a new Transliterate Liquid filter that converts Unicode text into SEO-friendly ASCII representations, with seamless integration into slug generation and media workflows.

All Orchard Harvest 2025 sessions are now available on YouTube, making it easy to catch up on the latest ideas and updates!

Ready to explore what's new?

This week, you can see a demo by Mike Alhayek of the AI Chat Admin widget that adds a floating chat widget to the Orchard Core admin dashboard. A Frontend Chat Widget is also available, which allows site visitors to interact with AI chat directly on the frontend.

See the new IJSLocalizer infrastructure, which you can use to load the localization from the PO files and make it available in JavaScript.

Georg von Kries added new validation that warns against unsafe Liquid output in SQL queries. So, whenever you edit an unsafe SQL query, it will tell you not to utilize this kind of usage in Liquid.

Check out DotNest, the Orchard Core SaaS, which has a new look! The new site is built with Tailwind CSS and a much more user-friendly content management approach.

As we mentioned, we started publishing last year's Harvest recordings to YouTube. Check them out for some inspiration and apply to be a speaker for this year's Harvest!

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

This week in Orchard, we've got some exciting updates you won't want to miss!

Mike Alhayek showcases new AI Documents features that bring Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to both Chat Interactions and Profiles.

Benedek Farkas introduces independent Render Liquid and Sanitize HTML settings for HTML and Markdown components, and thanks to Hisham Bin Ateya, there is a new Liquid filter that localizes dynamic data strings using the current culture.

And don't miss our Avastec case study, highlighting how we supported the event management backend for one of the largest retailers.

Oh, and have we mentioned that we will start publishing last year's Harvest recordings starting next Monday? Check them out for some inspiration and apply to be a speaker for this year's Harvest!

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

This week in Orchard, we've got some exciting updates you won't want to miss!

Mike Alhayek showcases Knowledge Base Indexing, which automatically chunks, embeds, and indexes source documents into a unified AI Knowledge Base index for efficient vector search.

Hisham Bin Ateya introduces the new OrchardCore.ContentFields.Core module. You can now use content fields without pulling in the entire ContentFields module.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, Orchard Core now leverages source generators to boost performance by generating code at compile time and reducing reflection on critical paths.

And don't miss our RESCON case study, highlighting how we supported the builders of Ontario.

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

We have two demos prepared for this week! The first demo is by Hisham Bin Ateya on adding localization support for Admin Menus, and the second is MCP Prompts and MCP Resources support by Mike Alhayek! Both are worth watching!

Before the demos, let's check out the new content manager ValidateAsync behavior, which means that now ValidateAsync() only performs validation and returns the result, and it no longer cancels the session on failure.

And thanks to Mike Alhayek, there is a new PlacementLocationBuilder fluent API as a type-safe alternative to manually constructing placement location strings in display drivers.

Enough talking, let's see these in detail!

This week, you can see an interesting demo of the Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills repository, which provides enhanced AI-assisted theming with agent skills. But before that, let us quickly mention allowing mailto and tel links in the HTML sanitizer configuration and allowing an override of Reverse Proxy from the configuration! Oh, and did we mention that we have just created a survey for Orchard Harvest 2026?

This week's topics include adding ShapeResult.Cache() docs, and migrating Media and Resources modules from Gulp to asset manager pipeline, and a demo of the AI Chat Interactions module! Let's just get right into the news!