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!

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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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This time, you can see a proof-of-concept demo for an admin UI-based theme editor with AI integration by Márk Bartha from Lombiq.

But before that, let us quickly mention the newly available storage indicator for the Media Library by Sára El-Saig, which notifies the user of the free space on the local file system when storing media items.

And thanks to Manuel Tamayo Montero, the Orchard Core documentation has been updated with additional lines to help developers use the Anchor Tag Helper.

See how we replaced the dynamic ContentCard shapes with strongly typed shapes to enhance Orchard Core development! Take a look at the updated documentation for the UserDisplayName shape if you struggled to display user information in your custom format. You could also see a demo about how to expose recipe step metadata and JSON schemas, enabling IDE autocompletion, AI tooling integration, and recipe validation. Oh, and have we mentioned that Orchard Core Commerce has just got a fresh new release?

This week's topics include prioritizing format over quality in the ResizeURLFilter, adding an option for inherited text alignment in the Flow Part, and a demo of the upcoming Blocks editor for the Bag Part!

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!

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?

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!