Worried about a licensing surprise breaking your CI builds, or being forced to buy a license just to build Orchard Core from source? That's exactly the risk ImageSharp v4's new license enforcement created, so Orchard Core replaced it with NetVips as the default image engine, which is faster too.

YesSql 6.0 has been released, and Orchard Core has been updated to pick up the latest provider and API improvements. The major version brought a few breaking API changes, so this also adapts the affected source.

Need to stop two editors from overwriting each other's changes? A new Content Lock feature locks a content item while someone else is editing it.

Important update about Orchard Harvest! Due to various factors, we had to make the difficult decision to move the event online.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Sébastien Ros, Zoltán Lehóczky, and Hisham Bin Ateya.

Worried about malicious file uploads reaching your media library? A new ClamAV integration by Mike Alhayek scans files before Orchard Core ever stores them.

Need a friendlier way to let users pick their time zone? A new ITimeZoneSelectListProvider interface makes that pluggable across the whole site.

And want to share a draft with a client without publishing it? A community module adds shareable, revocable draft links, demoed by Hisham Bin Ateya. We also point back to our latest Sponsorship Spotlight interview with him.

Want tighter control over your login screen's security policy? A new setting lets you turn the Remember Me option off site-wide, not just hide it.

Wondering how a team actually keeps its AI-assisted development consistent? New documentation and two updated agent skills cover exactly that.

And curious how you catch a performance regression before it reaches production, not after? Lombiq's new SQL query monitoring feature, built on the same open-source toolkit Lombiq uses on client projects, does precisely that.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, plus agent skills work from Antoine Griffard and Sébastien Ros, and a new tool from Lombiq.

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 A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.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.

Ever lost a minute scrolling past features you'll never toggle, just to find the one you need?

Wondered which shape template actually rendered a fragment on one of your pages?

Curious what the redesigned Orchard Harvest website will look like?

And ready to simplify your Orchard Core hosting?

This week we've got all four, courtesy of Mike Alhayek and Nick Jackson, plus a look at DotNest.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!

When you add a custom settings page, does it look like it belongs in the admin UI?

When you utilize workflow activities, does JavaScript syntax have to be the only option?

After checking out this week's Orchard news, both have better answers.

Thanks to Mike Alhayek, admin forms across settings and configuration pages now use the same ocat-* CSS class conventions, replacing legacy Bootstrap and Orchard-specific helpers. And all workflow tasks that previously only supported JavaScript now also support Liquid, with a new LiquidTask added to match ScriptTask.

Also this week: Nick Jackson's Orchard Core website redesign is open for community feedback, and GoRide joins the showcase of sites running on Orchard Core.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!

Does your admin UI tell you when an SSL certificate is about to expire?

Does your deployment pipeline carry Security settings between environments, or does someone have to reconfigure them by hand?

After this week's post, the answer to both is yes!

This issue covers: SSL Check (color-coded expiration warnings on the Tenants page), Security settings import/export via deployment plans, and notification alerts converted to dismissible toasts.

Plus an interview with Antoine Griffard, one of Orchard's longest-running contributors!

Discover the brand-new Vue 3-powered Media Library by Jasmin Savard with real-time updates, resumable uploads, and a sleek new UI.

Get inspired by a real-world case study of long-term Orchard Core maintenance for the City of Santa Monica.

And of course, we continue to show the new features of Orchard Core v3 targeted at developers, such as Sára El-Saig's contribution on using Jint's async scripting APIs to avoid a sync-over-async call that can cause a thread deadlock, so it's always preferable.

The other change by Mike Alhayek introduces support for cancellation tokens throughout the email and SMS sending infrastructure and improves code documentation by adding XML doc comments.

The full Orchard Harvest 2026 conference program is live, with the event taking place in Vancouver on September 10-11. Grab your early-bird ticket for just $280 and join the community for two days of sessions and networking!

Form submissions shouldn't end up in manual copy-paste routines. Orchard Core connects directly with Zapier, Make, and n8n to automatically trigger CRM updates, notifications, and more. DotNest's managed hosting makes the whole setup hassle-free!

The Health Checks module by Hisham Bin Ateya lets you restrict access by IP, apply rate limiting, and DoS protection for your health check endpoints, all configurable via JSON.

Managing multiple tenants on the same database just got easier. New RequireTablePrefix and TablePrefixPattern options, introduced by Mike Alhayek, let you enforce or auto-generate table prefixes (e.g., using the tenant name), so your setup is consistent and error-free out of the box.

No more guessing which properties to use for the Settings recipe step. Every module with configurable settings now includes a dedicated Recipe Configuration section with examples!

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 3.0 is out! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. In the coming weeks, we will explore the latest features and additions in Orchard Core 3.0!

New documentation by contributor Quoc Bao An Nguyen covers how to work with the Admin Theme in Orchard Core for building consistent, maintainable custom admin interfaces.

Thanks to contributor ghazi1567, ReCaptcha settings can now be configured via ConfigureReCaptchaSettings(), allowing keys to be pulled from appsettings.json rather than only from the admin dashboard.

A new demo by Mike Alhayek showcases how the AI Suite can route chat sessions to live human agents (e.g., via Genesys), enabling hybrid AI-and-human support workflows.

We attended Digitalk's BeerUP Tech Fest, where we networked and gave a talk on .NET web architecture in regulated environments!