Flamingo Marine is a startup that designs and builds modern electric boats. They needed a new website that was both easy to update and flexible in layout. To make that happen, they chose Orchard Core as the CMS and brought us in to build a modular, widget-based solution.

Orchard Core updatesShow a badge if a user is locked outThe user's account may become locked, for example, if they attempt to log in and enter the password incorrectly several times. However, there is no indication that a user is currently locked. The goal of this change is to have a small indication if a user is currently locked out. Let's say that we have a user with the username editor. We attempted to log in with this user several times using an incorrect password. By doing that, we locked out the account of the editor user. Now, if we navigate to the admin UI of Orchard Core and check the list of users under Access Control -> Users, you will see a badge showing that this user is locked out.

Orchard Core updatesRemove Media files for a removed tenant when using Azure Blob StorageIf you remove a tenant, its Media files are only removed if they use the default local storage in App_Data. When using Azure Blob Storage, though, they remain. To account for this, the existing settings are now extended with an additional flag (RemoveFilesFromBasePath option), which could then determine whether to delete the container or only the files associated with the given base path. You can set up this flag using the appsettings.json file, but you can also use the admin UI.

It's not all about hyperscalers: You can run your Orchard Core app in the cloud even if not using Azure, AWS, or some other giant like these. Let's see how we can do this with UpCloud!

Orchard Core updatesAllow the use of the site's time zone in workflow timer activitiesThe CRON pattern in a workflow timer activity was always based on UTC. This change introduces an option to use the site's time zone setting instead. The change is optional to prevent unintended behavior in existing workflows. Let's see it in action!

What does the Lombiq eInvoice Validator do?The Lombiq eInvoice Validator checks if the given XML is valid against the latest release of EN 16931 artifacts (v1.3.14.1 as of writing this), directly from the official eInvoicing-EN16931 repository. We currently support UBL 2.1 and CII (D16B) eInvoice validation.

Orchard Core updatesAdd GraphQL support for querying content items by status from the Content Picker FieldThis change allows content items from a Content Picker Field to be retrieved based on their status, not only the published versions, as before.