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.

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 A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.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

Have you heard that we rebuilt DotNest.com using reusable landing page sections, Tailwind 4 without Node.js, and AI-assisted workflows?

Nick Jackson demos an Electron desktop app that lets you spin up Orchard sites fast! Choose your modules and themes, manage recipes, all without touching an IDE.

Sébastien Ros introduced support for async JS evaluation using Jint's new async method, enabling workflows and other JS-dependent features to run without blocking.

We're excited to open registration for Orchard Harvest 2026! Secure your spot today for the early bird pricing and get ready to level up your skills!

This week, we mention the refactored IContentDefinitionService, allowing other modules to use content definition operations without referencing the entire ContentTypes module. See a demo of the Translation Editor that allows you to translate dynamic strings via the admin UI! And finally, check out a case study about how we rebuilt hajosnep.hu, Hungary's oldest maritime history association's website, with Orchard Core on DotNest!

Orchard Core 3.0 will be released soon! In this new version, we removed the default implementations from interfaces and obsolete members, which we cover in our post. You could also read about a new Agent Guidelines documentation that explains to LLMs how to build, test, and run Orchard. Don't forget to check out a case study on a new marketing website on DotNest! Without further ado, let's dive in!

You can still cast your vote for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! This week's topics include improving FlatPositionComparer performance and reducing allocations for ShapeDescriptors! See you next week at Orchard Harvest!

Secure your early bird ticket to the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are adding an ability to delete Content Part and Content Type from the list page, and adding an AdditionalProperties collection for BuildDocumentIndexContext! Oh, and have we mentioned that the Orchard Core-integrated AI modules are now available on DotNest? Without further ado, let's get started!

This week's topics include the updates of the latest version of Fluid, moving the user approval process outside the edit form, and the Azure Marketplace integration of DotNest! Check out our post for the latest news!

This week's topics include introducing the new Assets Build Tool and adding documentation about the relationship between Linkfield and HtmlSanitizerService. Did you know that DotNest.com now runs on Orchard Core? Check out our post for the latest news!