Want to give support staff a way to see role definitions without letting them change anything? A new View Roles permission does exactly that.

Need to cap how long, or short, a text field's content can be? Text Field settings now support Minimum and Maximum length validation.

Building AI features outside of Orchard Core? CrestApps.Core brings the same AI Suite services to any ASP.NET Core project.

And signing into DotNest just got easier, with social sign-in via Microsoft, Google, GitHub, or Facebook.

This week's changes come from Matt Varblow, Antoine Griffard, and Mike Alhayek.

Ever wondered how much storage your content version history is quietly eating? A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.

Curious about a faster way to add and configure parts and fields in the content editor? New Add & Configure and Save & Configure buttons cut out the extra round-trip.

Did you catch that the new Orchard Core website is live, built on vanilla Orchard Core with double-A accessibility?

And curious how a few lines of config can swap out a custom login flow for Microsoft SSO?

This week we've got all four, courtesy of PUXVSE (their first contribution!), Mike Alhayek, and Nick Jackson.

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.

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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?

Happy New Year, Everyone! In our first post of this year, we will examine new Placeholder settings for Fields, explore how you can contribute to Orchard Core.net, and showcase the .NET Foundation's most active community projects for 2025! Without further ado, let's dive in!

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!

Don't miss your chance to shape the conversation at the Orchard Harvest Conference 2025! This week's topics include adding a node title to each outcome in the workflow and fixing the alpha slider functionality in the Color Editor for the Text Field! You can also read an interview with Toby Dodds on Orchard Core at Smithsonian Folkways!

The full Orchard Harvest 2025 program is live! The topics for this week include disabling the Liquid tag by default and adding a From field to SmsMessage to support sending messages from different phone numbers. See a demo of how you can add a pattern for the Text Field!

The full Orchard Harvest 2025 program is live! The topics for this week are to add an Elasticsearch response to the search results and move Hint and Required properties to FieldSettings. See a demo of the new Dynamic Fields module!