Roadmap

We will introduce a unified Search and AI Prompting component that combines classic keyword search, semantic search, and lightweight AI prompting into a single reusable UI element. Within grids or other content-heavy components it will support:

• Intent-aware results – search that understands synonyms, related terms, and contextual relationships - for example, typing “vehicle” can also surface results for “car” or “automobile” when relevant.
• Keyword precision – exact symbol-by-symbol search.
• Inline AI Prompts - commands and suggestions triggered through natural language.

Developers can connect any LLM backend, configure templates, and tailor the user experience. This component improves discoverability, accelerates user workflows, and provides an AI-ready search and prompt surface optimized for performance and seamless integration across the suite.

The Chat component continues to evolve as our go-to interface for both human-to-human and human-to-AI communication. Following major updates in 2025, we’re further enhancing its UI/UX and expanding its feature set to deliver a smoother, more reliable messaging experience. Upcoming improvements include quality-of-life additions such as a scroll-to-bottom button, failed-message states, and many other usability features. These enhancements ensure the Chat component remains intuitive, modern, and ready for advanced conversational scenarios across your applications.

An AI-powered enhancement that streamlines data entry by transforming unstructured pasted content into structured form inputs. Users can copy text from emails, documents, or messages and paste it once, with the component intelligently mapping each piece to the correct fields based on context. This reduces manual typing, improves accuracy, and boosts efficiency. Smart Paste can be added to any form or other component with minimal setup and supports integration with any AI provider for content analysis. It offers a fast, context-aware paste experience that dramatically improves productivity.

Аn intelligent, prompt-driven assistant that accelerates building modern web applications with Telerik and Kendo UI. Developers can generate complete, production-ready UI layouts using natural language, from creating any single UI element to assembling full pages with routes, layouts, and themes. The generator integrates seamlessly with AI-powered IDEs and works with any connected LLM through the Telerik/Kendo UI MCP Servers that provide rich product context for higher-quality outputs. This capability boosts productivity and enables teams to deliver polished enterprise-grade UIs significantly 

We’re introducing PromptBox, a new component built for prompting and chat communication in AI-powered applications. Designed to support both simple and advanced prompt patterns, PromptBox offers structured input areas, inline guidance, prompt templates, and seamless integration with your AI backend of choice. Whether you’re building an AI assistant, semantic search experience, or automated workflow, PromptBox helps developers create consistent, high-quality prompts with ease. This component marks a key step in our vision to make Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core fully AI-ready and accelerate the development of intelligent applications.

Throughout the year we will deliver continuous updates to the Diagram component, introducing new editing capabilities, improved interactions, and refreshed visuals. Key additions include:

• Connector text support with flexible positioning
• Tooltips for nodes and connectors
• Shape and connector content text editing
• Floating toolbar enabling quick shape and connector editing and reshaping

The updates will also strengthen core diagramming behavior with improved connection points, refined connector logic, and enhanced shape interactions. These upgrades enable more straightforward, intuitive, and efficient end-user diagram operation.

We’re making Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core even more engaging and visually appealing. Upcoming updates include improved chart animations for smoother transitions, category highlighting for better data focus and readability, and theme-driven animation tokens to ensure consistent motion design across all themes. These enhancements will help you create charts that not only convey data clearly but also deliver a polished, modern user experience aligned with your application’s design.

A feature which provides ability to add icons to action buttons.

We’re introducing a more flexible and consistent way to manage component appearance across all Telerik & Kendo UI themes. Starting in Q1 2026, components will rely on theme-controlled defaults for key appearance options such as Fill Mode, Theme Color, Rounded Corners, and Size. This update gives you the best of both worlds—modern, theme-aligned designs out of the box, plus the flexibility to tailor components to your exact needs.

• Cleaner, theme-driven styling: Themes will define the default look and feel for a more cohesive design experience.
• Full customization remains: You can still override any default by explicitly setting component API options.
• Consistent behavior across themes: A unified system ensures predictable styling and easier maintenance.
• Clear hierarchy of control: Theme defaults → Component API overrides → Runtime customization.

Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core will provide full support for the upcoming .NET 11 previews and the official .NET 11 version. Our team is committed to delivering day-zero compatibility, ensuring a smooth experience as you explore the latest runtime advancements. In addition to maintaining seamless functionality, we are actively evaluating how to take advantage of the new features and performance improvements in .NET 11 to bring even greater value to your applications.

We closely monitor your suggestions, and based on your feedback, we will implement gradual improvements to our existing components. Keep an eye on future improvements to the Grid, Scheduler, Chart, TabStrip, Menu components, and many others.