Roadmap

The new personal finance demo app showcases the capabilities of KendoReact 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.

The upcoming grid improvements on the roadmap focus on enhancing usability, performance, and data handling capabilities. Key enhancements include a column chooser for managing hidden columns, multi-column filtering for more refined data selection, and row virtualization improvements aimed at streamlining activation from three steps to one while boosting performance. Additionally, OData support and a dedicated DataSource component will enhance integration with external data sources. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

We’re committed to listening to our customers and continuously improving our components based on your feedback. As part of this commitment, we’re introducing enhancements to the Scheduler component, driven by our Feedback portal. First, we’re adding the ability to get a list of selected events and detect changes to those events. Additionally, we’re improving timeline virtualization to further optimize performance and usability for large-scale scheduling needs. These updates demonstrate our dedication to delivering the features that matter most to our users.

We are thrilled to introduce an upcoming "Unstyled Option" preview feature for our UI library. This new option will allow users to apply their own custom styles to our components, providing greater flexibility in design. It will also enable seamless integration with external tools like Tailwind and StyleX, making it easier to meet all styling and design system requirements. This feature is designed to empower developers with more control over their application's look and feel. 

We are committed to staying current with the latest technologies, and with the official release of React 19, KendoReact will fully support all its new features. This ensures that your applications can leverage the latest improvements and innovations in the React ecosystem, providing you with cutting-edge tools and capabilities for building modern web applications.

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.

Later in the year, we would embark on the Storybook integration journey. Kick-start your documentation efforts as our integration with Storybook unfolds. Design your components effortlessly as part of a cohesive design system. 

We will start with the 10-20 most used KendoReact components. Stay tuned for these exciting updates as we continue to enhance and elevate your experience with our software product! 

As part of our ongoing efforts to keep our components up-to-date with the latest React advancements, we are migrating key class components from React 16 to functional components. This migration enables us and our customers to fully leverage new React features post-React 16, while ensuring that upgrading does not break existing applications. We’ve already completed the migration of several components in 2024, including Grid, Button, Toolbar, Pager, Input, and more. This move ensures compatibility with future versions of React, enhances performance, and empowers developers to take full advantage of the latest React capabilities. We plan to continue this migration throughout 2025, further modernizing our component library.