Initial release
January 2011

Stable release
1.8.1 / July 1, 2014

Development status
Active

Platform
ASP.NET (MVC)

Supported Databases
SQL Server, SQLCE, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL

Operating system
Windows

Type
Content management framework
Content management system
Community and Blog software

License
New BSD License

Website
orchardproject.net

Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers.

Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the OuterCurve Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The predecessor of Orchard was Microsoft Oxite