Just Announced: Progress Telerik & Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Release Webinars June 2, 4 and 6

Progress’ coming release redefines developer productivity with AI-assisted coding, prompt-based styling and GenAI-powered Reporting insights. Save your seat for the Progress Telerik and Kendo UI 2025 Q2 release webinars and learn more!

With Progress Telerik and Kendo UI 2025 Q2 release on May 28, we take another step in equipping developers to deliver the most powerful apps in the shortest time possible. At the core of the 2025 Q2 release is a transformative move toward AI-powered development.

Purpose-built AI Code Assistants for Telerik UI for Blazor and KendoReact are designed to output production-quality code minimizing the need for manual fixes to subpar results. Combined with instant prompt-based styling thanks to 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 Q2 2025 release further delivers on the productivity promise with data grid performance updates, enhanced design system tools, new components and even a free set of 50+ KendoReact components.

Read on for an exclusive sneak peek of our upcoming release highlights and release webinars! We’re thrilled to be sharing a preview of the latest features and improvements that our development team has been working on. In this blog post, we’ll be giving you a glimpse of what to anticipate and a taste of the exciting new capabilities that will be available to you on May 28.

Join us for our release webinars to see the new features in action and learn how they can help you achieve more. In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at what’s in store:

Fast and Smart AI-Assisted App Development

• KendoReact and Telerik UI for Blazor coding assistants: Market-first AI Coding Assistants that work with any code generator to enhance the output, so it’s optimized specifically for Telerik and Kendo UI. These AI-powered coding assistants are available with Telerik and Kendo UI subscriptions.
• AI theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder: Effortlessly create custom styles and themes for Telerik and Kendo UI components by prompting an AI. Fine-tune the results and preview changes in real time right inside ThemeBuilder before applying them to your project.
• GenAI-powered insights in Telerik Reporting: Get instant answers and intelligent summaries directly within the report preview without needing 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.
• 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.

All-Screen-Sizes Ready, Adaptive and Responsive UI

• Adaptive and responsive UI controls: Deliver a smooth 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

• 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 AI dynamic theming, the ThemeBuilder app offers accessibility and performance improvements for a more seamless experience while designing your apps.
• Updated Material theme: The Telerik and Kendo UI Material theme now follows Material 3 guidelines, delivering a more modern, intuitive and consistent user experience.
• 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: This new theme adapts to the system’s appearance, for a consistent look and feel that matches the native light and dark modes of the device.
• Component theming mechanism in Telerik Report Viewer: Leverage a unified styling experience with the jQuery Report Viewer and wrappers, now fully compatible with ThemeBuilder.

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.
• 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.

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.
• PDFViewer annotations: Customization in the PDFViewer is even easier with new annotations (text highlighting and free text annotations).
• 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 thanks to the Next.js v15 support in KendoReact.

Save Your Seat for the Webinars!

Find out what’s new in your favorite UI component libraries, reporting and debugging tools! You can register for more than one webinar. (Hint: Find the details in the webinar pages linked below.)

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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And the Best Part About the Release Webinars?

The live webinars are a great opportunity for you to ask questions before and during the webinars. We’ll be waiting to hear from you on X—just use the #heyTelerik and #heyKendoUI hashtags.

Sign up today to make sure you don’t miss these great events with our experienced developer advocates and experts:

• Ed Charbeneau, Microsoft MVP, speaker, author of “Blazor: A Beginner’s Guide” and host of “The Blazor Power Hour”
• Sam Basu, Microsoft MVP, speaker, DevReach co-organizer and author of numerous articles on .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms
• Alyssa Nicoll, Google Developer Expert and Angular Developer Advocate
• Kathryn Grayson Nanz, Developer Advocate with a passion for React, UI and design
• Rick Hellwege, Principal Sales Engineer, reporting guru and innovator with a passion for experimenting with the latest technologies and frameworks

Can’t wait to see you soon! 😊