The AI-Powered Telerik and Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Release Is Here—See What’s New!

With the 2025 Q2 release, Progress redefines developer productivity with popular IDE-integrated AI Coding Assistants, prompt-based styling and GenAI-powered Reporting insights!

Progress Telerik and Kendo UI continue to push the boundaries of developer productivity when building cutting-edge apps. At the core of the 2025 Q2 release is a major step toward AI-powered development. New AI Coding Assistants for Telerik UI for Blazor and KendoReact are purpose-built to work directly inside today’s leading AI-powered IDEs to output hallucination-free code and reduce the need for manual fixes to subpar results.

Paired with prompt-based styling thanks to the AI theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder, GenAI-powered Reporting insights and expanded adaptability across the web frameworks, this release gives developers all they need to build smarter, ship faster and create modern, responsive apps with unprecedented efficiency.

Along with groundbreaking AI technology, the Telerik and Kendo UI Q2 2025 release further delivers on the productivity promise with data grid performance updates, enhanced styling tools, new UI components and even a free set of 50+ KendoReact controls.

To see the new updates firsthand, don’t forget to sign up for the release webinars, which will cover everything released in Q2:

• Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Release Webinar
• Telerik 2025 Q2 Release Webinar—Web, Desktop and Mobile
• Telerik Reporting and Fiddler 2025 Q2 Release Webinar

Let’s Dive into the 2025 Q2 Highlights

Fast and Smart AI-Assisted App Development

• KendoReact and Telerik UI for Blazor Coding Assistants: AI Coding Assistants that work directly inside virtually any AI-powered IDE to generate code optimized specifically for Telerik and Kendo UI. These tools provide the needed context to broader AI code generators, such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor, to produce quality code and minimize the need to spend time reworking generic results. The AI Coding Assistants are powered by our own MCP servers for Telerik and Kendo UI. Learn more in this blog post: Announcing Telerik & Kendo UI Coding Assistants 🚀.

• AI theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder: Effortlessly create custom styles and themes for Telerik and Kendo UI components by natural language prompt. Fine-tune the results and preview changes in real time right inside ThemeBuilder.

• GenAI-powered insights in Telerik Reporting: Get instant answers and intelligent summaries directly within the report preview without the need to use external tools.

• AI-powered document summary and insights in DPL: The GenAI-enhanced PDF Processing library enables you to extract key insights and summaries from documents, thus streamlining analysis.

• New AI Prompt in Telerik and Kendo UI Editors: The Editor control in Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC and Kendo UI for jQuery is enriched with side panel and inline AI Prompt helper.

• AI building blocks and page templates: AI App Welcome screen, AI-powered text editor and conversation source are added to the already robust collection of building blocks, while a new AI Usage Monitoring dashboard enriches the page templates collection.

• AI Prompt component integration with Microsoft.Extensions.AI preview package: Build AI-powered features in your .NET applications more efficiently with out-of-the box abstractions for integrating popular AI services into your web apps.

• AI Prompt into Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX: In 2024 we introduced the AI Prompt control across most of the Telerik and Kendo UI libraries. Now you can integrate GenAI capabilities into your WebForms projects, too.

All Screen Sizes: Ready, Adaptive and Responsive UI

• Adaptive and responsive UI controls: Deliver a flawless user experience with adaptive and responsive UI in Toolbar, ColorPicker, TabStrip, ActionSheet and Form UI components. To future-proof your applications for evolving screen sizes, we plan to expand adaptiveness and responsiveness to all UI components throughout 2025.

• Adaptive UI features across Telerik and Kendo UI components: In addition to adaptive UI controls, the release also brings adaptive capabilities to key features like popup editing, column menu, paging, filter menu and column chooser/visibility, for a more seamless experience across all screen sizes.

Performance Enhanced Data Grids

• Performance optimizations in Telerik and Kendo UI Grids: Telerik and Kendo UI Grids are further improved to provide better speed and ability to handle a significant amount of data without compromising performance.

• Multiple Grid enhancements across the board: Export to PDF, row spanning, resizable Grid, drag handle and hint customization, built-in Popup editing, multiple range selection, improved virtualization and more are added to the Telerik and Kendo UI Grids.

• Optimized features in KendoReact Grid: Most of the KendoReact built-in features, including state management and internal state handling, column spanning, selection, editing, row reordering, expand and collapse, context menu and more are optimized to save even more development time.

• New React Data Grid Server Mode: The RSC Mode of the KendoReact Grid takes advantage of React Server Components and renders ahead of time, before bundling in an environment separate from your client application or SSR server.

Expanded Design System Tooling

• Additional Progress ThemeBuilder enhancements: Along with the AI dynamic theming, the ThemeBuilder app offers accessibility and performance improvements for a more seamless experience while styling your apps.

• Updated Material theme: Telerik and Kendo UI Material theme now follows Material 3 guidelines, delivering a more modern, intuitive and consistent user experience. However, Material 2 is still available as a swatch, so you can choose the theme that better suits your application.

• Support for CSS variables in Charts across Telerik and Kendo UI: Customize Chart styles without modifying the core code. Effortlessly adjust colors, fonts and sizes across multiple charts with a single variable change.

• .NET MAUI Platform theme with Light and Dark modes (Official): This new theme adapts to the system’s appearance, offering a consistent look and feel that matches the native light and dark modes of the device running your .NET MAUI application.

• Component theming mechanism in Telerik Report Viewer: Leverage a unified styling experience with Angular, Blazor and jQuery Report Viewers and wrappers, now fully compatible with ThemeBuilder. This Sass-based styling mechanism allows smooth integration of Telerik Reporting and Kendo UI components for standardized app designs.

Beyond Comprehensive UI Libraries

• New OTP (one-time password) UI control: Build more secure apps with the new OTP component in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC, Kendo UI for Angular and UI for jQuery. One-time passwords play a vital role in helping prevent unauthorized access and better protecting user data.

• Telerik UI for Blazor Dock Manager and FloatingAction Button: We’ve enriched the Blazor UI library with a DockManager control for recreating desktop-like experiences and a FloatingAction Button that adds instant and robust interactivity to your Blazor app.

• New Chart Wizard component: Create a chart using data from a grid, another data-bound component or an external source with the Chart Wizard control, now available in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC and Kendo UI for jQuery.

• Breadcrumb and Heatmap in Kendo UI for Vue: Navigate and visualize more effectively with the new Breadcrumb and Heatmap components in Kendo UI for Vue, bringing clarity to complex structures and data trends.

• New Badge Component in Telerik UI for AJAX: Add visual cues and contextual highlights with the new Badge component in Telerik UI for AJAX—perfect for notifications, statuses and alerts.

Robust Features and Support for the Latest Technologies

• Codemods CLI for assisted migration in Kendo UI: Migration to a new Kendo UI version is now automated with Codemods CLI. Confidently deprecate legacy code and accelerate the delivery of new features without friction.

• PDFViewer annotations and form filling: Customization in the Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC and Kendo UI for jQuery PDFViewer is even easier with new annotations (text highlighting and free text annotations). The PDF Viewers in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC and Kendo UI for jQuery also support form filling, allowing users to complete PDF forms directly within your web application.

• Compatibility with .NET 10 previews: Telerik products are now compatible with .NET 10 previews, so you’re ready for the future of .NET development.

• Next.js v15 support: Integrate modern frameworks with high-performance UI components with Next.js v15 support in KendoReact.

• Enhanced reporting capabilities: Along with the GenAI-powered insights, this release includes facilitated Report Server deployment thanks to the Azure Marketplace listing and robust features for advanced reporting experience like GraphQL data native support, raw data export in desktop designers, a modernized report engine cache for .NET, performance improvements in the data engine and more.

• Document Processing Libraries (DPL) enhancements: Together with the GenAI-powered PDF Document summary and insights API, the Telerik Document Processing Libraries add Optical Character Recognition (OCR), allowing the conversion of scanned images and PDFs into machine-readable and editable texts.

• Updated debugging technology: AutoSave traffic, Keyboard Shortcuts to speed up task execution, a new Reverse Proxy setting, and so much more are now available to help you boost your debugging game with Telerik Fiddler Everywhere.

What’s New & Release History

What you’ve read are just the highlights. To see everything that is new in 2025 Q2, visit the What’s New in Telerik and Kendo UI Products page. For a deeper dive into each product, follow the links below.

Join Us for a Closer Look: Release Webinars!

Explore what’s new in your favorite UI component libraries, reporting and debugging tools with the team!

Progress Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Release Webinar | June 2

Discover all updates across KendoReact and Kendo UI for Angular, Vue and jQuery, as well as ThemeBuilder. Tune in 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET on Monday, June 2.

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Progress Telerik .NET Web, Desktop and Mobile 2025 Q2 Release Webinar | June 4

Discover all updates across Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for ASP.NET MVC, UI for ASP.NET AJAX, UI for WPF, UI for WinForms, UI for .NET MAUI and ThemeBuilder. Tune in 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 4.

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Progress Telerik Reporting and Fiddler 2025 Q2 Release Webinar | June 6

Discover all updates across Telerik Reporting and Fiddler Everywhere. Tune in 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Friday, June 6.

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