Latest Release

4.0.0 was released on June 26, 2023 and is a major framework upgrade to .NET 7. This release includes 104 pull requests by 5 different contributors, pushing the total number of project commits all-time over 3600. The Oqtane framework continues to evolve at a rapid pace to meet the needs of .NET developers.

Oqtane Framework

Oqtane is an open source CMS and Application Framework that provides advanced functionality for developing web, mobile, and desktop applications on .NET. It leverages Blazor to compose a fully dynamic digital experience which can be hosted on Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly, or Blazor Hybrid (via .NET MAUI).

Oqtane is being developed based on some fundamental principles which are outlined in the Oqtane Philosophy.

Please note that this project is owned by the .NET Foundation and is governed by the .NET Foundation Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

Getting Started

Using Version 4:

Install .NET 7 SDK.
Install the latest edition (v17.0 or higher) of Visual Studio 2022 with the ASP.NET and web development workload enabled. Oqtane works with ALL editions of Visual Studio from Community to Enterprise. If you wish to use LocalDB for development ( not a requirement as Oqtane supports SQLite, mySQL, and PostgreSQL ) you must also install the Data storage and processing.
clone the Oqtane dev branch source code to your local system. Open the Oqtane.sln solution file and Build the solution. Make sure you specify Oqtane.Server as the Startup Project and then Run the application.

Installing an official release:

A detailed set of instructions for installing Oqtane on IIS is located here: Installing Oqtane on IIS
Instructions for upgrading Oqtane are located here: Upgrading Oqtane

Additional Instructions

If you have already installed a previous version of Oqtane and you wish to do a clean database install, simply reset the DefaultConnection value in the Oqtane.Server\appsettings.json file to "". This will trigger a re-install when you run the application which will execute the database installation.
If you want to submit pull requests make sure you install the Github Extension For Visual Studio. It is recommended you ignore any local changes you have made to the appsettings.json file before you submit a pull request. To automate this activity, open a command prompt and navigate to the /Oqtane.Server/ folder and enter the command "git update-index --skip-worktree appsettings.json"

Video Series

If you are getting started with Oqtane, a series of videos are available which explain how to install the product, interact with the user interface, and develop custom modules.

Documentation

There is a separate Documentation repository which contains a variety of types of documentation for Oqtane, including API documentation that is auto generated using Docfx. The contents of the repository is published to Githib Pages and is available at https://docs.oqtane.org

Roadmap

This project is open source, and therefore is a work in progress...

Backlog (TBD)

Azure Autoscale support (ie. web farm)
Folder Providers
Generative AI Integration

5.0.0 (Q4 2023)

Migration to .NET 8

4.0.0 ( June 26, 2023 )

Migration to .NET 7
Improved JavaScript, CSS, and Meta support
Optimized Client Assembly Loading
Routable Modules (ie. declarative configuration)
Site Template improvements
IEventSubscriber interface

3.4.3 ( May 3, 2023 )

Stabilization improvements

3.4.2 ( Mar 29, 2023 )

Stabilization improvements

3.4.1 ( Mar 13, 2023 )

Stabilization improvements

3.4.0 ( Mar 12, 2023 )

Permissions performance optimization
Connection string management improvements
XML site map generator
OIDC integration with User Profiles

3.3.1 ( Jan 14, 2023 )

Stabilization improvements

3.3.0 ( Jan 12, 2023 )

Dynamic Authorization Policies
Entity-Level Permissions
Extended Module Permissions

3.2.1 ( Oct 17, 2022 )

Stabilization improvements
Server Event System

3.2.0 ( Sep 13, 2022 )

.NET MAUI / Blazor Hybrid support
Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.2

3.1.3 ( Jun 27, 2022 )

Stabilization improvements

3.1.2 ( May 14, 2022 )

Stabilization improvements

3.1.1 ( May 3, 2022 )

Stabilization improvements

3.1.0 ( Apr 5, 2022 )

3.0.3 ( Feb 15, 2022 )

Url fragment and anchor navigation support
Meta tag support in page head
Html/Text content versioning support

3.0.2 ( Jan 16, 2022 )

Default alias specification, auto alias registration, redirect logic
Improvements to visitor tracking and url mapping
Scheduler enhancements for stop/start, weekly and one-time jobs
Purge job for daily housekeeping of event log and visitors
Granular security filtering for Settings

3.0.1 ( Dec 12, 2021 )

Url mapping for broken links, content migration
Visitor tracking for usage insights, personalization
User experience improvements in Page and Module management

3.0.0 ( Nov 11, 2021 )

Migration to .NET 6
Blazor hosting model flexibility per site
Blazor WebAssembly prerendering support

2.3.1 ( Sep 27, 2021 )

Complete UI migration to Bootstrap 5 and HTML5 form validation
Improve module/theme installation and add support for commercial extensions
Replace System.Drawing with ImageSharp
Image resizing service

2.2.0 ( Jul 6, 2021 )

Bootstrap 5 Upgrade
Package Service integration
Default and Shared Resource File inclusion
Startup Error logging
API Controller Validation and Logging

2.1.0 ( Jun 4, 2021 )

Cross Platform Database Support ( ie. LocalDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL ) - see #964
Utilize EF Core Migrations - see #964
Public Content Folder support
Multi-tenant Infrastructure improvements
User Authorization optimization
Consolidation of Package Management
Blazor Server Pre-rendering
Translation Package installation support

2.0.2 ( Apr 19, 2021 )

Assorted fixes and user experience improvements

2.0.1 ( Feb 27, 2021 )

Complete Static Localization of Admin UI

2.0.0 ( Nov 11, 2020 )

Migration to .NET 5
Static Localization ( ie. labels, help text, etc.. )
Improved JavaScript Reference Support
Performance Optimizations
Developer Productivity Enhancements

1.0.0 ( May 19, 2020 )

POC ( May 9, 2019 )

Initial public release on GitHub
.NET Core 3.0

Background

Oqtane was created by Shaun Walker and is inspired by the DotNetNuke web application framework. Initially created as a proof of concept, Oqtane is a native Blazor application written from the ground up using modern .NET Core technology and a Single Page Application (SPA) architecture. It is a modular application framework offering a fully dynamic page compositing model, multi-site support, designer friendly themes, and extensibility via third party modules.