Orchard Harvest 2025 venue, new function to clone existing roles - This week in Orchard (05/09/2025)
We have the venue for the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are simplifying security headers settings using tabs and a new function to clone existing roles. Don't forget to check out our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions project, which is updated to the latest and greatest 2.2.0 Orchard Core version.
Orchard Core updates
Simplify security headers settings using tabs
If you navigate to Settings -> Security -> Security Headers, you have the option to set up the content security policy, the permissions policy, and the referrer policy. In the past, you had to scroll down a lot to set up the referrer policy because it was at the bottom of the page.
To improve the user experience of the Security Headers editor page, Hisham Bin Ateya split the content of this page into three sections: Content Security Policy, Permissions Policy, and Referrer Policy. By separating the content of this page into multiple tabs, it makes it easier to set up the desired settings without needing to scroll down a lot.
New function to clone existing roles
Shivam Pandey added an enhancement for copying or cloning roles — similar to the clone functionality we have for content types. Currently, duplicating a role with a different name requires multiple manual steps. Having a built-in clone role feature would save time.
The solution was to add a Clone button to the Edit page of each role, which would open a new editor with the source role name as an argument. The editor will then be initialized with the same values, but you will be able to set the name you want. We can't just clone directly because technical role names can't be changed once they are created.
To see this in action, navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and select the Roles option from the Access Control menu. Here, you can view the list of existing roles, and next to each role, you'll find a new button labeled Clone. Clicking this button redirects you to a new page where you can define the role's name and edit the prefilled permissions if needed.
News from the community
Updated Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions
Orchard Core, the ASP.NET Core framework and CMS on which we built our company, is constantly improved by its community, including us. The community has recently released the latest 2.2.0 version of Orchard Core, featuring several new features and additions. Apart from numerous important bug fixes (which were also released separately as 2.1.9), it updates vulnerable packages and introduces some performance improvements.
Orchard Core is available as a NuGet package, which you can easily add to your ASP.NET Core solution. Here’s how you can get started with it: https://docs.orchardcore.net/en/latest/getting-started/.
Lombiq's Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions Visual Studio solution contains most of Lombiq's open-source Orchard modules and themes, as well as related utilities and libraries. Please keep in mind that only those extensions included that use the latest released version of Orchard (i.e., the very cutting-edge ones, depending on a nightly build, are not yet here). And now, this solution has been updated to the latest version of Orchard Core, 2.2.0.
Check them out here and install them from NuGet or directly from the source. Bug reports, feature requests, comments, questions, and code contributions are warmly welcome; please do so via GitHub issues and pull requests. Please adhere to our open-source guidelines while doing so.
Orchard Harvest 2025 venue
The Orchard Harvest 2025 conference will be held in Prague, and we look forward to seeing you all this autumn in the Czech Republic, in the heart of Europe. Our confirmed dates for this year are November 11th and 12th. And now you can buy your tickets for the Orchard Harvest 2025 conference! Secure your early-bird tickets to the conference, taking place November 11-12, 2025, in Prague!
Don't miss this limited-time offer: just $250 for two days of all-access learning and networking. Get your tickets here!
We have the final venue for the conference! The event will be held at the Botanique Hotel Prague, a modern hotel inspired by nature with a green approach in the city centre of Prague.
And here comes the first session that you can listen to live at this year's conference and interact with the speaker. Zoltán Lehóczky will give a talk titled Maintaining dependencies of Orchard Core apps with Renovate.
As we move forward, we will keep community members informed of the details, and you will also find every detail in this newsletter! We also updated the official website with the latest information about Harvest.
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