Unlock Agent-to-Agent Communication in Orchard Core today! This time, Mike Alhayek shows the A2A modules, which bring the Agent-to-Agent protocol to Orchard Core, enabling tenants to connect to remote agents or expose local agent profiles to other clients.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, the admin UI just got a usability boost with alphabetical role sorting, making user management-related operations cleaner and faster.

Mike Alhayek added new events to the IDocumentIndexHandler needed to allow other projects to implement more complex synchronization, such as when an index is updated or when another data source is updated. It means these events help keep external systems in sync with changes to the document index.

And the community is buzzing too! Nick Jackson has kicked off an important discussion: Who should the new OrchardCore.net website speak to? Head over to GitHub, read the proposal, and make your voice heard. This is your chance to shape the future of the Orchard Core website.

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, Mike Alhayek shows the upcoming Content Transfer module that provides bulk import and export of content items using Excel files!

But before that, check out how Hisham Bin Ateya improved the Health Checks feature to report the status for the Twilio SMS service.

We also want to highlight a new site built with Orchard Core: JobsIreland!

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This week, Mike Alhayek shows new features to the AI Suite: Initial Prompt, data extraction, post-session processing, and AI Chat Session Analytics!

But before that, check out how Hisham Bin Ateya and Georg von Kries improved the feature dependency display and interactivity, and the new protect global method provider by Mike Alhayek!

Harvest speaker applications are now open until May 15! If you’ve been considering speaking at Orchard Harvest, this is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the Orchard Core community. Join us on the 10th and 11th of September in Vancouver!

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This week, Mike Alhayek shows how to use Copilot directly inside Orchard Core!

But before that, check out some code where you can see that, starting now, Orchard supports static data migration methods, and suppressions are no longer required for migration steps that don't use instance state.

Welcome the first contribution from Jack Liu, who made the pagination of the List Part configurable to decide whether to show a full pager with page numbers or just the arrows to navigate to the previous and next pages.

Do you know that since 2013, we've been working with Óbuda University in a hands-on way to teach web development? If you are interested in our Orchard Core courses at the university, check out our post on our site!

As we mentioned, we started publishing last year's Harvest recordings to YouTube. Check them out for some inspiration, and don't forget to apply to be a speaker for this year's Harvest by the 5th of May, midnight, anywhere on Earth!

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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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The wait is over: version 1.11 of Orchard CMS is finally here! In this post, we will cover everything you need to know about this release, including the improvements to Orchard Core, such as adding content lifecycle docs and using the SLNX solution file format. Without further ado, let's dive in!

Our last post of this year concerns moving GetAllCulturesAndAliases to the default implementation and adding missing docs for the Setup module. Don't forget to check out a demo about the Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part! We also want to share some photos of our Christmas event. Thank you all for reading our posts and for making the Orchard community stronger! See you next year!

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!