Orchard

Made mainly from a collection of reusable ASP.NET components, Orchard provides a simple tool in managing content published online.

Benefiting from a large documentation base and many written and video tutorials, Orchard helps simple or advanced developers put a site together and put it online.

Orchard can be installed the old classic way, or via Microsoft's WebMatrix or Web Platform Installer.

Features:

• Installation wizard
• Administration panel
• WYSIWYG editing
• Menu manager
• Widgets manager
• Themes
• Modules
• Blog
• Comments moderation
• Multi-user system
• Statistics section
• Organize content in categories or via tags
• Multi-database system
• Syndication feeds
• Content scheduling
• Templated layouts

What is new in this release:

• URL tokens not working in background tasks
• Decision Activity doesn't work
• Jobs queue don't use the correct priority when created
• Unable to use HasTerms multiple times on the same query
• Media library does not display thumbnail if the URLs contains special chars
• Upgraded JSON.NET
• Razor Template Processor is now a separate feature
• Missing Microsoft.Data.Edm dependency
• PublishOwnBlogPost and PublishBlogPost permissions are ignored
• Output cache improvements

What is new in version 1.7.2:

• Orchard.SSL: New SSL module replacing Contrib.SSL, providing convention enhanced security, convention based
• Azure SDK 2.2 support
• Search engine integration feature
• Creation of custom media types
• Consistent CSS class names for text boxes
• Removed BlogConstraintPathUpdator background task
• Optimized AliasUpdator
• Removed deep recursive data migration calls
• Created default indexes on content item tables
• Added Eager Fetching filter for projection
• Improved API to define range queries

What is new in version 1.6:

• ASP.NET MVC 4: We upgraded the MVC library to the latest available version.
• Razor 2: The brand new version of the Razor view engine which simplifies many parts of your views.
• Web API: The rest-enabled web framework which lets you create API from Orchard modules
• MySQL: There is now a third option in the setup screen to use MySQL as the database.
• NHibernate 3.3: We upgraded the NHibernate library to the latest available version, allowing module developers to leverage database caching.
• SysCache: A default implementation of a database cache provider.
• Performance: Some work as been done to improve performance in different places like Widgets/Layers and Blog archives.
• Precompiled target: There is a new "Precompiled" build target which generates a build without any source code
• File monitoring is off by default: When building the website using a build script - usually for deployment - files won't be monitored by default.

Requirements:

• IIS 7+ or IIS Express 7.5+