Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Release Webinar

Progress® Telerik and Kendo UI have taken another step in ensuring that developers deliver the most powerful apps in the shortest time possible. At the core of the 2025 Q2 release is a transformative move towards 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 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.

Kendo UI 2025 Q2 Highlights: 

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  Fast and Smart AI-Assisted App Development:

  • KendoReact Code Assistant: Market-first AI Code Assistant that works with any code generator to enhance the output, so it’s optimized specifically for KendoReact. This AI-powered coding assistant is available with KendoReact subscription.
  • AI-driven theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder: Effortlessly create custom styles and themes for Telerik and Kendo UI components by prompting an AI.
  • 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.  
  • New AI prompt in Kendo UI Editors: The Editor control across Kendo UI libraries is enriched with side panel and inline AI helper.
  • Smart (AI) Grid demos in KendoReact: Smart Grid demos are now available for KendoReact, too.
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  Performance Enhanced Data 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.
  • 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 Kendo UI Grids.
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  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.
  • Adaptive UI features: The release also brings adaptive capabilities to key features like popup editing, column menu, paging, filter menu, and more, ensuring a seamless experience across all screen sizes.  
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  Expanded Design System Tooling:

  • Additional Progress ThemeBuilder enhancements: Along with the AI dynamic theming, ThemeBuilder offers accessibility and performance improvements for a more seamless experience while designing your apps.
  • Updated Material theme: Kendo UI Material theme now follows Material 3 guidelines, delivering a more modern, intuitive, and consistent user experience.
  • Support for CSS variables in Kendo UI Charts: Customize Chart styles without modifying the core code. Adjust colors, fonts and sizes across multiple charts with a single variable change.
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  Beyond Comprehensive UI Libraries:

  • New OTP (one-time password) UI control: Build more secure apps with the new OTP component in Kendo UI for Angular and UI for jQuery.
  • 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 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.
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  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.
  • Next.js v15 support: Seamlessly integrate modern frameworks with high-performance UI components thanks to the Next.js v15 support in KendoReact.

Alyssa Nicoll
Developer Advocate for Kendo UI for Angular & GDE, Progress

Alyssa is an Angular Developer Advocate & GDE. Her two degrees (Web Design & Development and Psychology) feed her speaking career. She has spoken at over 30 conferences internationally, specializing in motivational soft talks, enjoys gaming on Xbox and scuba diving in her spare time. Her DM is always open, come talk sometime.

Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Developer Advocate for KendoReact, Progress

Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a developer advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI and design and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she’d be stuck doing it forever. She ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming and tweeting about React, design, UI and more.