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Orchard Core updatesNew Allow Remember Me Login SettingThis feature by Mike Alhayek adds a new AllowRememberMe setting in LoginSettings, so administrators can control whether the Remember Me option is available on the login form at all. When it's off, the checkbox is neither shown nor respected, so the option is a real security policy control, not just a UI toggle.

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Orchard Core updatesContent Version Pruning FeatureThe new Content Version Pruning feature provides a background task that periodically deletes old archived content item versions; versions that are neither the latest nor the published one. On sites that are edited often, every save or publish leaves the previous version behind in the database. Over time, these accumulate, growing the storage footprint and slowing version-history queries. Pruning keeps that history bounded. The latest draft and the published version of an item are never deleted; only superseded (archived) versions are eligible.

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Orchard Core updatesImprove Features Management UIMike Alhayek reworked the Features page in the admin UI:

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Orchard Core updatesOCAT CSS Classes for Admin EditorsThis change by Mike Alhayek focuses on improving the consistency and maintainability of the Orchard Core admin UI by standardizing form layouts, enhancing accessibility, and refining the structure of several view files. The main changes include removing the TheAdminThemeOptions and the CssOrchardHelperExtensions, so admin editor views now use static CSS classes prefixed with ocat- (Orchard Core Admin Theme) instead of C# helper methods that injected CSS classes at runtime.