Roadmap

In Q4 and beyond, we’re focusing on making the assistant smarter, faster, and more reliable—driven by user feedback, testing, and the latest AI advancements. This ongoing investment reflects our long-term commitment to bringing AI innovation into Kendo UI for Angular, empowering developers to build applications with less effort and greater impact.

 

The upcoming grid improvements focus on expanding functionality, enhancing usability, and optimizing performance. Row spanning enhancements will provide greater layout flexibility, while multiple range selection will improve data manipulation workflows. State management upgrades will make it easier to persist and restore grid configurations seamlessly. Virtualization improvements will have it On by default to reduce setup complexity. Virtualisation would work in parallel to Pagination. Additionally, migrating demos to standalone - including those for TreeView and PivotGrid - will modernize examples, making them more modular and easier to integrate. These updates collectively aim to improve developer experience, performance, and ease of use.

This release focuses on removing friction when exploring large datasets, enabling faster insights through natural, self-guided interactions. The Grid becomes a powerful, AI-driven tool that empowers both technical and non-technical users to manipulate and understand data effortlessly, without wrestling with complex UIs, manual configurations, or lengthy queries.

We’re launching a brand-new Form component for Kendo UI for Angular, designed to give developers full control over form structure, layout, and validation while seamlessly integrating with Angular’s reactive forms. This is not just an upgrade—it’s a fresh, flexible approach to building forms.

The component supports vertical or horizontal orientation, multi-column layouts with responsive breakpoints, grouped fields (fieldsets), and customizable spacing through row and column gutters. It allows you to use default or custom editors, control colspan, and organize fields directly in markup without relying on complex configuration.

Built for real-world use, it also supports multi-step Form Wizards via integration with the Kendo UI Stepper, making long forms easier to complete. With field-level customization and native Angular validation, the new Form component streamlines form building without sacrificing flexibility.

Adding a brand-new Inline AI Prompt component will enable developers to embed lightweight, context-aware AI interactions directly within forms, editors, and data grids. This component provides a seamless input experience where users can invoke AI suggestions inline—without disrupting their workflow—using predefined triggers or natural language prompts. Developers will benefit from flexible API integration with any LLM backend and customizable prompt templates. Designed for fast rendering and low memory footprint, this component helps accelerate productivity features such as smart autocompletion, contextual explanations, content rewriting, fixing grammar, translating text, polishing formatting, and much more inside any business application.

In both Q3 and Q4 2025 we will be shipping a major Chat component revamp. We’re advancing our conversational UI to support the next generation of real-time, intelligent communication. As AI-driven interactions become the norm, these enhancements combine a modernized design with key upgrades that enable both human-to-human and human-to-AI conversations through a flexible, extensible interface. Highlights include smarter message bubbles with improved timestamp placement, dynamic border-radius adjustments, and an in-bubble typing indicator to show when participants are actively responding. Attachment handling and scrolling have been refined for a smoother experience, while chat views gain time-break markers (e.g., “Today,” “Yesterday”), a customizable empty-chat template for welcome content, scrollable suggestions, and visual user-status indicators.

Additional feature upgrades include predefined templates for in-chat attachments, structured message and attachment actions, improved link and message styling, a redesigned header that centralizes chat context and navigation, and a more expressive message input area with built-in action adornments such as emoji or file upload. For AI use cases, the new AI Prompt mode supports contextual memory through events, formatted AI responses (e.g., code, markdown, HTML), response interruption via a stop button, token tracking, and styled quick suggestions for prompts like “Summarize” or “Fix grammar,” making the chat experience more accessible, engaging, and ready for intelligent, real-time interactions.

We are introducing a new Speech-to-Text Button component: a reusable UI element that integrates voice input capabilities into web applications with minimal effort. Voice input is becoming an important interaction method in modern web applications, improving accessibility, increasing productivity, and allowing hands-free workflows. Designed to fit seamlessly into forms, chat inputs, search fields, or any prompt interface, it enables users to dictate text or prompt in one click and allows developers to customize behavior, and styling as necessary. 

The AI Prompt component will be enhanced with new capabilities aimed at improving user interaction and output control. A new Response Formatting feature will introduce structured output handling through a set of customizable events, enabling seamless integration with third-party libraries for tailored response presentation. Additionally, the component will integrate with the Speech-to-Text component, allowing users to input prompts via voice for a more natural and accessible experience. A Stop Response feature will also be introduced within the text area, giving users the ability to interrupt response generation in real time, offering greater control and responsiveness during AI interactions. 

We’re undertaking a comprehensive initiative to establish 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.

 Highlights of the initiative include:

• Adaptive enhancements to Toolbar, Pager, and Popup components, setting the foundation for more flexible layouts.
• Transforming the Grid with new data presentation modes, improved mobile usability, and adaptive side panels.
• Advancing form capabilities with multi-column layouts, input enhancements, and full responsiveness.

With 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.

We’re excited to announce the upgrade of our Fluent theme to Fluent 2, bringing a refreshed, modern design language that aligns with Microsoft's latest Fluent design system. Fluent 2 introduces a cleaner aesthetic with softer corners, improved typography, and consistent padding, all aimed at enhancing usability and visual clarity. This update ensures better accessibility, dark mode fidelity, and seamless integration with Microsoft's ecosystem of apps. By adopting Fluent 2, our UI components now deliver a more intuitive, elegant, and future-proof user experience—empowering developers to build interfaces that feel native to Windows 11 and beyond.

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.

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 and v17 in November 2025 and v18 in May 2026. This transition will allow us to fully adopt the new features and improvements introduced with Angular v18 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 latest Angular versions to take full advantage of these advancements, ensuring a seamless, future-proof experience with our components.

 

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.