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!

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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!

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The wait is over: version 1.11 of Orchard CMS is finally here! In this post, we will cover everything you need to know about this release, including the improvements to Orchard Core, such as adding content lifecycle docs and using the SLNX solution file format. Without further ado, let's dive in!

Our last post of this year concerns moving GetAllCulturesAndAliases to the default implementation and adding missing docs for the Setup module. Don't forget to check out a demo about the Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part! We also want to share some photos of our Christmas event. Thank you all for reading our posts and for making the Orchard community stronger! See you next year!

The topics for this week include migrating Orchard Core to .NET 10 and adding documentation for the Menu tag helper and Liquid shape rendering. See a demo of how you can utilize the upcoming Quill editor type for the HTML Field!

This week, we will review some of the changes introduced in Fluid 2.30.0, including the refactored FeatureAttribute for improved clarity and maintainability. A huge thank you to everyone who attended Orchard Harvest 2025!

Today we had the first day of the Orchard Harvest 2025 conference. In this post, we would like to summarize what happened on the first day of the conference.

You can still cast your vote for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! This week's topics include improving FlatPositionComparer performance and reducing allocations for ShapeDescriptors! See you next week at Orchard Harvest!

Cast your vote for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! This week's topics include simplifying using StringValues in Liquid templates and shape morphing in Razor pages! Oh, and do you know about the Orchard Harvest's sponsorship opportunity?

Don't miss your chance to shape the conversation at the Orchard Harvest Conference 2025! It's also time to nominate exemplary community members for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award. This week's topics include introducing a new User Display Name shape and a new page in the documentation about the Archive Later feature.