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SignalR Module, Lombiq has a new website - This week in Orchard (02/10/2026)

Ever forgotten the exact syntax for filtering your content items, users, or audit trail events? The Available Filters dialog now shows every filter as a compact grid of cards.

Building a module that needs real-time updates across multiple server instances? A new SignalR module centralizes hub registration, authentication, and Redis or Azure backplane configuration.

Curious how Orchard Core works as a headless CMS behind a booking app? Dave Black demoed Flexstructor, a driving lessons application for instructors and learners.

And have you seen our redesigned website yet? It covers our software audit, technical due diligence, and data analytics services, not just Orchard Core.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, with a demo by Dave Black!

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SignalR Module, Lombiq has a new website - This week in Orchard (02/10/2026)

Ever forgotten the exact syntax for filtering your content items, users, or audit trail events? The Available Filters dialog now shows every filter as a compact grid of cards.

Building a module that needs real-time updates across multiple server instances? A new SignalR module centralizes hub registration, authentication, and Redis or Azure backplane configuration.

Curious how Orchard Core works as a headless CMS behind a booking app? Dave Black demoed Flexstructor, a driving lessons application for instructors and learners.

And have you seen our redesigned website yet? It covers our software audit, technical due diligence, and data analytics services, not just Orchard Core.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, with a demo by Dave Black!

Rate Limits module, DotNest sites upgraded to Orchard Core 3 - This week in Orchard (25/09/2026)

Ever wondered why a permission shows up as effective for a role you didn't expect, or struggled to figure out what a feature depends on before enabling it? The Admin Interface now explains both, with clearer effective-permission tooltips and a better Features UI experience.

Curious what's new across the Deployment, Data, Publish Later, and Alias module docs? They just got a lot more detailed.

Want to stop a flood of requests from hammering your login or API endpoints, or any of your endpoints? A new Rate Limits module adds centralized, configurable rate limiting for Orchard Core.

Do you know that DotNest sites have already been upgraded to Orchard Core 3.0? They have, along with the rest of the stack around them.

This week's changes come from Georg von Kries, Mike Alhayek, and Antoine Griffard.

OpenApi, Visual Layout Editor improvements - This week in Orchard (18/09/2026)

Want interactive API documentation without hand-writing a schema? Orchard Core v4 is getting a new OpenApi module with Swagger, ReDoc, and Scalar built in.

Need sign-ins to survive a browser restart without relying on a user's Remember me checkbox? A new setting controls persistent authentication cookies site-wide.

And curious how the Visual Layout Editor has evolved since June? It now detects every editor shape correctly, even ones with multiple editors like the SEO Meta Part.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Georg von Kries, and Nick Jackson.

Privacy-friendly analytics and URL shortening, store user state in Audit Trail - This week in Orchard (11/09/2026)

Want a more useful landing page when you open the admin area? The Admin Dashboard's default content just got a redesign, with new documentation on how to extend it yourself.

Need an audit trail of who changed which user, without leaking sensitive data into your database? Users Audit Trail now lets you control exactly what gets stored, redacted, or hashed per property.

And want privacy-friendly analytics and UTM tracking without a cookie banner? Lombiq Marketing, a new open-source module, adds cookie-free Pirsch analytics and a built-in URL shortener.

This week's changes come from Antoine Griffard and Sára El-Saig.

Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2026, Orchard Harvest next week - This week in Orchard (04/09/2026)

Need to filter the admin contents list by more than one content type at once? A small change now lets you pass multiple content type IDs or stereotypes in the same query.

Looking for documentation on YesSql, security, theming from an HTML template, the Media Picker, or shapes? Several new Key Topics pages cover exactly that.

Curious how Orchard Core scales across multiple backend nodes with failover? We walk through the upcoming tenant clustering feature.

And since this is our last This week in Orchard post before Orchard Harvest 2026, we cover the latest news about the now-online conference and the voting for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, Antoine Griffard, Lazizbek Ergashev, and Sébastien Ros.

AI framework for .NET, New View Roles permission - This week in Orchard (28/08/2026)

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.

Orchard Harvest goes Online, Content Lock feature prevents editing conflicts - This week in Orchard (21/08/2026)

ImageSharp v4's new license enforcement brought questions, so Orchard Core replaced it with NetVips as the default image engine.

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.

ClamAV Antivirus Scanner, How to Share Draft Content in Orchard Core via a Unique Link? - This week in Orchard (14/08/2026)

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.

Catch Slow SQL Before Production, How to use Orchard Core Agent Skills? - This week in Orchard (07/08/2026)

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.

Orchard Core Just Got a New Home, Content Version Pruning Feature - This week in Orchard (31/07/2026)

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.