Yes. DNN Platform is a free, open-source CMS under the MIT License.

What is the tech stack for DNN?

DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

What’s the difference between DNN and Evoq?

DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

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Cleaning up the unanswered and unresolved filtered topics in the Forums Started By Marco Alvarado Is there a way to clean up the two categories from Filtered Topics section on this Forum called 'unanswered' and 'unresolved' from very old posts I tried to default reply on one thread Timo did like 7 years ago to clean up the 'unanswered' category but I realized my comments will be display in the home page summarize for last comments; so I'm not going to do that. I like the idea to see these two categories with the most recent threads, like 6-8 months old (specially for new DNN users tha...	4	79	0	4/5/2026 3:25 PM by Marco Alvarado
Themes, 2 forums Started By Timo Breumelhof Host (SU) I'm not sure it's needed to have two forums, one for using theme's and one for creating theme's. IMO one would be enough. I only saw the second one when I scrolled down to get to this one TBH.	1	3157	0	6/14/2019 12:16 PM by Timo Breumelhof Host (SU)
Stinkin' Badges? 😎 Started By Will Strohl Hello Everyone: Have you seen the badge feature in the Community Forums yet Documentation: Community Forums Badges Well, do you think there are any other badges that should be there by default 🤔	9	369	1	7/24/2025 1:20 PM by Will Strohl
Forum module error? Started By Stéphane Tétard Hello I just breaked the thread https://dnncommunity.org/...ule-on-a-page/15424 by posting an html tag in my answer. I thought that the module would encode the specific characters. Is there someone who can fix the problem	1	88	0	2/27/2026 3:09 AM by Stéphane Tétard
Changing passwords Started By James Howlett I am trying to update the passwords for authorized users I created to test setting up a special content workflow. However, every time I click on the change password for my content manager, it switches to my super user profile. If I'm not fast enough, I change MY password. The search field suddenly populates with my logged in username, as if I'm searching for my profile only. But I'm not. I'm just clicking on the content manager's Change Password link (in either spot - cogwheel icon or three ...	7	1555	4	7/13/2021 10:19 AM by James Howlett
Sorry, you have been blocked Started By jwckauman I just tried to create my first new topic on dnncommunity.org, but was told 'Sorry, you have been blocked' and that the action I just performed triggered the security solution'. It said that I might have triggered using a certain word, phrase, SQL command or malformed data. I did include some text from a DNN log. Also it mentioned a Cloudflare Ray ID: 8c6d4a19abbdb023. Any ideas	1	841	0	9/21/2024 5:58 PM by jwckauman
Minimum requirements Started By johnhenley Do these need to be updated Particularly sql https://docs.dnncommunity...uirements/index.html	8	1107	3	7/4/2024 9:37 AM by johnhenley
Unable To log onto Community site Started By Hans Zassenhaus When I attempt to log onto http://dnncommunity.org using Edge notmal ( Not InProvate), I am presented with the security check from CloudFlare; BUT am not granted access to the website. However using the MS Edge InPrivate capability I have no issues with my Login/Password and am able to log onto the website. What am I doing wrong How can this be corrected	6	1125	1	2/17/2024 11:14 AM by Hans Zassenhaus
Scheduled Downtime on 20240109 Started By Will Strohl Hello DNN family! FYI, tomorrow we will have some planned downtime between 9:00 AM (PST) through 11:00 AM (PST). We expect intermittent downtime during that period. If you're using the site during that time, please know that you may experience outages and data loss. Please plan accordingly, and we look forward to everything being ready for you again in short order. After the process, a new announcement regarding the updates will be posted in this forum, like always.	2	644	1	1/8/2024 4:02 PM by Will Strohl
Website Updates 20231229 Started By Will Strohl Hello DNN fam! Today, several updates were applied to the DNN community website and community. This included upgrading modules to their latest available versions, Windows updates, and upgrading DNN itself to 9.13.1. 🙌🏽 Happy New Year! 🥳	4	924	3	12/29/2023 4:41 PM by Will Strohl

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