This was a big change, we had to upgrade and adapt the whole system from .NET through Orchard Core to our own libraries. Lombiq played a big part in evaluating and debugging the new version before release, earlier this year. This collaboration led to some improvements in our own tools and libraries as well.

Orchard Core updatesOpenApiOrchard Core v4 will introduce a new OrchardCore.OpenApi module, thanks to Jasmin Savard, provides interactive API documentation and OpenAPI/Swagger schema generation for Orchard Core's API endpoints.

The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) represents professionals in Ontario’s residential building industry and leads initiatives to foster innovation across the sector. Their public website runs on Orchard Core: it's a headless Orchard Core backend powering a separate Vue-based frontend application. But an issue had started to undermine one of the site’s most important functions: publishing up-to-date content.

Avastec, a UK company, approached us to continue the development of their existing Orchard Core-based headless backend utilized by the event management site of one of the world's largest retailers. It was already in use with a publicly accessible Node.js-based frontend. The end client urgently wanted some new features, with follow-up tasks to optimize the system's performance, and keep the app up-to-date while maintaining the integrity of the user interface.

Since 2013, we’ve been working with Óbuda University on a hands-on way to teach web development. What began as a course built around Orchard CMS later evolved into an Orchard Core-based subject, giving students a chance to learn by building something that could actually work in the real world, not just completing classroom exercises.

A more reliable way to measure what actually happensTo address this, we built a marketing module at Lombiq for Orchard Core that makes analytics more resilient without adding complexity.

DotNest is Lombiq’s managed Orchard Core hosting platform where users can create and run Orchard Core sites without handling infrastructure, updates, or maintenance themselves. We recently rebuilt the site to give DotNest a clearer presentation and a more modern user experience.

Upgrading Orchard CoreOne of the bigger tasks was upgrading the site from Orchard Core 1.8.3 to 2.1.7.