Roadmap

We have just introduced the AI Coding Assistant - a productivity-boosting tool trained on the Kendo UI for jQuery component library. It generates production-ready, API-compliant code that follows best practices and reduces manual fixes.

Built on the powerful MCP standard, the assistant seamlessly integrates with modern editors to handle both quick guidance and complex, multi-step prompts - enabling a smarter, more flexible development workflow.

In Q4 and beyond, we’re making the assistant even faster, more reliable, and more intuitive - driven by user feedback and the latest AI advancements. This reflects our long-term commitment to integrating AI innovation into Kendo UI for jQuery, enabling developers to achieve more with less effort.

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 prompts in one click. It allows developers to customize behavior and styling as necessary.

As AI-driven interactions become the norm, we’re advancing our Chat Component to support the next generation of real-time, intelligent communication. This revamp introduces a modernized design and key feature upgrades that enable both human-to-human and human-to-AI interactions through a flexible and extensible chat interface. New enhancements include predefined templates for in-chat attachments, structured messages and attachment actions, improved link and message styling, and a redesigned header element that centralizes chat context and navigation. The message input area now supports a more expressive TextArea with built-in action adornments like emoji or file upload. Additionally, speech-to-text integration makes the chat experience more accessible.

For AI use cases, the new Prompt Mode optimizes LLM-based conversations, offering support for 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 AI prompts like “Summarize” or “Fix grammar.”

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 upcoming Speech-to-Text module, 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.

The Diagram component is set to receive a major upgrade focused on creating modern workflow diagrams. This enhancement will introduce a rich collection of out-of-the-box workflow shapes, designed to streamline the creation of process flows and business logic diagrams. Alongside these new shapes, the update will include several usability and performance improvements aimed at modernizing the component’s design and interactivity, making it easier and more intuitive for developers to build rich, dynamic diagramming experiences.

The Data Grid, Toolbar, Pager, TabStrip, and other UI components will be enhanced to support adaptive behavior so that their design and UX are seamless regardless of the device they are displayed on.

We are committed to staying current with the latest technologies, and with the official release of jQuery 4.0.0, Kendo UI for jQuery will fully support all its new features. This ensures that your applications can leverage the latest improvements and innovations in the jQuery ecosystem, providing you with cutting-edge tools and capabilities for building modern web applications. Support for jQuery 4 beta is already in place.

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.