When you have an ASP.NET Core application, that publishes content often and has different users, it’s a good idea to keep track of what is happening in the app: What changes? What content gets deleted or published by who? Who logged in, and when, did somebody fail to log in repeatedly using a wrong password? Who changed the settings?

Orchard Core updatesAdd AddShapeTableProvider extension methodThere is a new AddShapeTableProvider extension method that registers required services for the specified IShapeTableProvider. Here you can see some examples of how to use this new method instead of needing to pass the IShapeTableProvider to register it.

Orchard Core updatesAdd AdminNavigationProvider to cleanup AdminMenuThe admin menu has been optimized with significant performance improvements and code enhancements. Instead of the NavigationHelper.IsAdminMenu helper that was introduced in this version, AdminNavigationProvider allows us to clean up our code and build the navigation with less and cleaner code. When adding a navigation provider to the admin menu, it is now recommended to use the new AdminNavigationProvider class rather than directly implementing the INavigationProvider interface in your project.

Orchard Core updatesAdd the Create & Setup button to the create tenant viewWhen creating a new tenant, it is helpful to be able to create and set up the tenant at the same time. In addition to the Create button, now we have a Create & Setup button which will take you to the setup screen after a tenant was created.

Orchard Core updatesCache top-unread notifications in the navbar for better performanceThe Notifications module offers a comprehensive infrastructure for managing notifications effectively. It includes a centralized notification center and streamlined mechanisms for seamlessly dispatching notifications to users within the application. However, calculating the unread notifications on every request is costly on database servers. Mike Alhayek improved the performance by caching the unread notifications for the user by default. Also, we use compiled query to query the database to help SQL Server not generate an execution place on every query.

Do you want to send an email, when a form is submitted? Perhaps delete a content item after a certain amount of time? You don't want to write complex codes? Look no further with the Orchard Core Workflows feature you can achieve these, without writing any code. This way people who are not familiar with coding can also easily modify these processes.

Orchard Core updatesAdd AddTenantReloadWarningWrapper and AddNavigationProvider extensionsIn Orchard Core, we have several places where we added the Settings_Wrapper__Reload wrapper (wrapper: an array of shape types to use as wrappers for the current shape) to the shape. From now on, you can utilize the AddTenantReloadWarningWrapper helpful extension to do that.

The same way as with lombiq.com, we wanted to modernize the site, while improving the looks. So, Dojo was redesigned while keeping the core functionalities, and message of the website. We wanted the design to look similar to the lombiq.com website, but at the same time stand apart from it. This was achieved with a new color palette, that uses a darker less contrasted version of the original Lombiq colors (red, blue, and green). We also focused on improving the site's usability and aesthetics, ensuring it is both visually appealing and easy to navigate.