Roadmap

We’re undertaking a comprehensive initiative to establish Telerik and Kendo UI as the most adaptive and responsive component libraries on the market. While our components already support responsiveness and adaptiveness, this effort is a complete reevaluation and enhancement designed to set a new standard. Over the course of 2025, we will roll out significant updates across our library, including adaptive improvements to core components like the Grid, Toolbar, and Forms, as well as new page templates and building blocks tailored for mobile-first design.

 Highlights of the initiative include:

• Q1-Q2 2025: Adaptive enhancements to Toolbar, Pager, and Popup components, setting the foundation for more flexible layouts.
• Q1-Q3 2025: Transforming the Grid with new data presentation modes, improved mobile usability, and adaptive side panels.
• Q2-Q3 2025: Advancing form capabilities with multi-column layouts, input enhancements, and full responsiveness.
• Q4 2025: Adaptive updates for major components and the introduction of mobile-first building blocks and templates of our UI Accelerator offering.

With clear timelines, an emphasis on developer experience, and a commitment to cutting-edge standards, this initiative ensures developers can create applications that adapt seamlessly to any device or user need—delivering a best-in-class experience.

The Codemods CLI tool is designed to streamline Kendo version migrations on breaking changes, addressing key customer pain points and enhancing overall experience. By automating code transformations, including syntax updates, CSS variable restructuring, and module adjustments, it significantly reduces manual effort and the risk of errors. A dry-run mode and detailed migration reports ensure transparency and safety, allowing developers to preview changes before applying them. Supporting multiple legacy versions, the tool provides a seamless upgrade path, encouraging faster adoption of the latest versions while reducing support costs. Additionally, this initiative reinforces technical leadership, positioning Kendo UI as a developer-friendly, future-proof solution that balances innovation with ease of migration.

The PDFViewer will support Annotations and Form Filling, enhancing the utility and functionality of PDF documents. Annotations enable users to collaborate, review, and provide feedback, making them essential for communication and document editing. Form filling capabilities will make applications more versatile and user-friendly by allowing users to interactively fill out forms within PDF documents.

The new personal finance demo app showcases the capabilities of Kendo UI in building modern, data-driven applications with an intuitive user experience. Designed to demonstrate real-world financial tracking and budgeting, the app features interactive charts, data grids, and form components for managing expenses, setting budgets, and visualizing financial trends. With a focus on usability and performance, it highlights responsive design, real-time data updates, and smooth interactions. This demo serves as a practical reference for developers, illustrating best practices in UI/UX design, state management, and integration with external data sources. By providing a hands-on example, the app enhances customer engagement, encourages adoption of Kendo UI components, and reinforces the library’s suitability for financial and enterprise applications.

We are excited to announce that the Telerik and Kendo UI Material theme will be updated to align with Google's Material Design 3 guidelines! This update introduces a modern, flexible, and visually appealing design system to help you create stunning, user-friendly applications.

To ensure flexibility, we will continue to support Material 2 with a backwards-compatible swatch, allowing you to choose the design style that best suits your needs.

At Kendo UI for Angular, we prioritize our customers' feedback and are committed to incorporating their top-rated feature requests. By actively listening to your suggestions and needs through our Feedback Portal, we aim to provide enhancements that directly address your most pressing requirements. This customer-centric approach ensures that our product evolves in ways that are most beneficial to you, enhancing your development experience and satisfaction.

As part of our commitment to staying at the forefront of web development, we will continue to adopt and integrate the latest features and innovations from the Angular ecosystem. With each new Angular release, we are dedicated to providing Day 1 support for all new versions, ensuring that our components are fully compatible and optimized for the latest updates. By staying aligned with Angular’s evolving capabilities, we empower developers to take advantage of the newest advancements without delay, helping them build cutting-edge applications with confidence and ease. Our ongoing commitment to Angular ensures that you’ll always have access to the most modern and robust features in our component library.

 

To ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation and provide the best possible experience for our users, we will be ending support for Angular v16 in December 2025. This transition will allow us to fully adopt the new features and improvements introduced with Angular v17 and beyond. By focusing on the latest Angular versions, we can deliver enhanced performance, better security, and access to the most current web development features. We encourage our users to upgrade to Angular v17 to take full advantage of these advancements, ensuring a seamless, future-proof experience with our components.

 

At Kendo UI, we are committed to maintaining our leadership in web accessibility by continuously improving the accessibility of our components. We strive to ensure that our components meet the highest web accessibility standards, making applications more inclusive and easier to use for all users, regardless of their abilities. Our ongoing efforts will focus on enhancing keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and overall usability, ensuring that our components provide a seamless experience for everyone. We are dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest accessibility best practices, and we will continue to evolve and improve our components to support a more accessible web for all.

We’re enhancing the UI Accelerator offering by introducing new building blocks and page templates every quarter. These additions are designed to simplify project setup and development, providing developers with pre-built, reusable components and layouts that align with modern design standards. From streamlined workflows to consistent, polished results, these updates aim to save time and enhance productivity. By regularly expanding the library, we’re ensuring developers have the resources they need to efficiently build high-quality applications.