Orion Features

Blazing Fast System Infrastructure

• 50ms or less RTT latency for most of the world’s population, with expanded coverage in Africa/Middle East in 2026

• 2 times faster HTTP/2 multiplexed page delivery times (out of the box, for all customers) than the competition

• 300 MB/s sustained builds for multi-gigabyte source trees

• NVMe or faster build storage infrastructure

• Solaris 11.4 for ZFS stability, backed by Full Oracle Customer Support

• node.js for markdown rendering with CPU clustering

• 8-256 way concurrent builds

• Quick Commit now the default setting for most circumstances

• Apache httpd 2.4 based IDE:

  • HTTP/2

  • event mpm

  • mod_perl w/ ithreads

  • mod_apreq2

  • TLS 1.3

  • Custom SVN::Client module w/ ithread support for per-request pools

Multilingual

• English

• Spanish

• German

• French

• Brazilian Portugese

• Russian

• Chinese

• Korean

• Japanese

• Arabic

• Hebrew

• Swedish

Better support for Mailing Diffs and Creating Clones

• DMARC-protected

• Uses SRS and Reply-To for ezmlm-compatibility

• All users are Authenticated via Google’s OpenID-Connect Service

The curious-looking duckling is now an elegant swan

• Bootstrap 4+ styling for easy CSS semantic styling and quick onboarding.

• Editor.md is amazing: by using relative src urls, your linked images will render in the editor preview pane.

Consistent GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) rendering with Editor.md and Django Templating

• WYSIWYG: Same javascript code rendering engine in both your browser and in the (node.js-based) markdown.js build script ensures 100% structural consistency between the Editor.md Markdown preview window and the production site.

• YAML headers in source (markdown) files now fully supported.

• Native d3-graphviz.js support:

• Native @mermaid-js/mermaid v11.15.0 with mindmap+wardley-beta support:

• Markmap.js View support

• Don Knuth’s $\TeX$ / Kahn Academy’s $\KaTeX$ support for math, physics and chemistry:

$$\ce{ Zn^2+ <=>[\ce{+ 2OH-}][\ce{+ 2H+}]$\underset{\text{amphoteric hydroxide}}{\ce{Zn(OH)2 v}}$<=>C[+2OH-][{+ 2H+}]$\underset{\text{tetrahydroxozincate}}{\ce{[Zn(OH)4]^2-}}$ }$$

• Synchronous, Bidirectional Generation of $\LaTeX$ Source Files to/from Markdown+$\KaTeX$ Files.

• Navier-Stokes in Einstein Notation (aka PAIN)

$$\begin{aligned} \pdv{\rho}{t}+\pdv{(\rho u_i)}{x_i} &= 0 \\ \pdv{(\rho u_i)}{t}+\pdv{(\rho u_i u_j)}{x_j} &= -\pdv{p}{x_i}+\pdv{\tau_{ij}}{x_j}+\rho f_i \\ \pdv{(\rho e)}{t}+\pdv{(\rho e+p)u_i}{x_i} &= \pdv{(\tau_{ij} u_j)}{x_i}+\rho f_i u_i+\pdv{(\dot{q}_i)}{x_i}+r \\ \end{aligned}$$

• Navier-Stokes in Classical Notation

$$\begin{aligned} \pdv{\rho}{t}+\vec{\nabla}\cdot(\rho\vec{u}) &= 0 \\ \pdv{(\rho \vec{u})}{t}+\vec{\nabla}\cdot\rho\vec{u}\otimes\vec{u} &= -\vec{\nabla p}+\vec{\nabla}\cdot\bar{\bar{\tau}}+\rho\vec{f} \\ \pdv{(\rho e)}{t}+\vec{\nabla}\cdot(\rho e+p)\vec{u} &= \vec{\nabla}\cdot(\bar{\bar{\tau}}\cdot\vec{u})+\rho\vec{f}\cdot\vec{u}+\vec{\nabla}\cdot\vec{\dot{q}}+r \end{aligned}$$

• Electric!

  Editor will autocomplete and autoindent; has full screen mode, as well as support for several other content authoring modes available to its CodeMirror 5 syntax highlighter.

Full support for branch builds

• No more staging/publishing: replaced with per-resource branch Promotion.
• Rollback and Sync Merge fully supported.

Live source tree search engine

• Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) based.
• Global search and replace functionality as well (unique given PCRE support); supports regex captures.
• PDF search coming soon.
• GraphQL/AI support coming soon. Security looks fun!

Unlimited page attachments w/ arbitrary mime-types

Secure, threaded per-page comments

Automated Natural Language Translations of Markdown

Interactive Mathematical Vector Graphics with @vectorgraphics/asymptote

• Syntax Highlighter for Asymptote
• CMS will fast fail on unparseable Asymptote code blocks
• WebGL enabled, mulit-threaded HTML output

// tubular trefoil knot -*- asy -*-

import tube;
import graph3;
import palette;

size(0, 8cm);
currentlight=White;
real redPortion = 143 / 256;
real greenPortion = 153 / 256;
real bluePortion = 251 / 156;
pen periwinklePen =  redPortion * red + greenPortion * green + bluePortion * blue;
currentlight.background = periwinklePen;
currentprojection=perspective(1,1,1,up=-Y);

int e=1;
real x(real t) {return cos(t)+2*cos(2t);}
real y(real t) {return sin(t)-2*sin(2t);}
real z(real t) {return 2*e*sin(3t);}

path3 p=scale3(2)*graph(x,y,z,0,2pi,50,operator ..)&cycle;

pen[] pens=Gradient(6,red,blue,purple);
pens.push(yellow);
for (int i=pens.length-2; i >= 0 ; --i)
  pens.push(pens[i]);

path sec=scale(0.25)*texpath("$\pi$")[0];

coloredpath colorsec=coloredpath(sec, pens,colortype=coloredNodes);

draw(tube(p,colorsec),render(merge=true));

Deltas from Apache CMS Features

• Only the Perl-based build system is available.

• New Markdown editor is marked/gfm based, so the parser is more modern. Latest release supports slug specification a’la the original python-based parser.

• GFM uses a different delimiter for code blocks.

• extpaths.txt is no longer supported: select individuals from each project will be granted write access to the production website tree in our subversion repos for uploading externally produced material (javadocs, software release artifacts, etc.)

Index

• SunStar Systems’ Orion — Enterprise Jamstack Wiki Platform  for creating, managing, and delivering static webpages using Jamstack Technology for dynamic features therein…

• Orion Security — “Security through obscurity is not much security at all.”…

• Orion Plans — Annual up-front pricing discounts available (up to 20% off monthly billing costs)…

• Orion Reference — Those hot-pink pencil icons at the upper right alongside the breadcrumbs will give you a live demonstration…

• Orion API — This page indexes the Document, Search, Online Editor, Django Template Library, and Build System APIs…

• Orion Technology — Now w/ mod_perl v2.0.14 w/ ithreads and httpd v2.4.67 w/ event mpm….

• Orion Privacy Policy — It’s a GDPR-compliant opt-in system. On the first visit to the Orion ™ CMS/IDE, you will be directed to a Google Page asking you to authorize…