Orchard Core consists of two distinct projects:

• Orchard Core Framework: An application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core.
• Orchard Core CMS: A Web Content Management System (CMS) built on top of the Orchard Core Framework.

Stable (master):

Nightly (dev):

The software is complete enough for external testing -- that is, by groups outside the organization or community that developed the software. Beta software is usually feature complete, but may have known limitations or bugs. Betas are either closed (private) and limited to a specific set of users, or they can be open to the general public.

Here is a more detailed roadmap.

• Clone the repository using the command git clone https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore.git and checkout the dev branch.

• Install the latest versions (current) for both Runtime and SDK of .NET Core from this page https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core
• Navigate to D:\OrchardCore\src\OrchardCore.Cms.Web or wherever your respective folder is on the command line in Administrator mode.
• Call dotnet run.
• Then open the http://localhost:5000 URL in your browser.

• Download Visual Studio 2017 (any edition) from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
• Open OrchardCore.sln and wait for Visual Studio to restore all Nuget packages
• Ensure OrchardCore.Cms.Web is the startup project and run it

• Run docker run --name orchardcms orchardproject/orchardcore-cms-linux:latest

Docker images and parameters can be found at https://hub.docker.com/u/orchardproject/

We currently follow these engineering guidelines.

The documentation can be accessed here: https://orchardcore.readthedocs.io/en/dev/