Roadmap

Enhance accessibility with refined keyboard navigation. Effortlessly scroll through chart elements using your keyboard, making your visualizations more accessible and user-friendly. 

 

We are excited to announce that we are working on integrating our UI components with the Astro framework. This integration will allow developers to easily use our components within their Astro projects, providing a seamless development experience. By combining Astro’s optimized, modern approach to building web applications with our robust and versatile UI library, developers can create fast, scalable, and highly interactive user interfaces. 

 

 

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.

An upcoming feature for our UI library is enhances to Content Security Policy (CSP) compliance for our Spreadsheet component. This update will ensure that the component adheres to strict security standards, preventing the execution of unauthorized scripts and protecting user data more effectively. With this enhancement, developers can integrate our spreadsheet into their applications with increased security and peace of mind.

 

We are enhancing the accessibility of all our components to ensure full compliance with a11y standards. This includes comprehensive keyboard navigation support and resolving some outstanding issues related to WAI-ARIA guidelines. These improvements make our components more accessible to users with disabilities, ensuring a more inclusive user experience and broadening the potential audience for your applications.

With the release of React 19, we are introducing KendoReact Grid with server components functionality. React Server Components allow for server-side rendering and caching, improving performance by reducing client-side data fetching and rendering workload. Benefits include enhanced data fetching efficiency, improved security by keeping sensitive data server-side, and performance optimizations through caching and streaming. This functionality also boosts initial page load speed, SEO, and social media shareability, making your applications faster and more user-friendly.

Our Data Grid component is receiving two major enhancements: responsive columns and built-in print functionality. Responsive columns will allow the grid to automatically adjust column visibility based on the browser window's width, ensuring an optimal display on any device. The built-in print functionality will enable users to print the grid content alone, either by hiding irrelevant page content with print CSS or by printing a separate page with just the grid. These features enhance usability and provide greater flexibility in data presentation and reporting.

We're pleased to share that a design revamp for our Menu and Tabstrip components is on the horizon. This update will bring a modernized look and feel, improving aesthetics and usability while ensuring a more consistent experience across the entire UI library. With these enhancements, users can expect a more intuitive interface, smoother navigation, and enhanced customization options. 

 

We are planning a comprehensive revamp of the date editing functionality in our DateTimePickers to address several user pain points. This update will improve editing, validation, and mask options, as well as enhance navigation and overall behavior. The goal is to provide a smoother and more intuitive user experience, reducing errors and increasing efficiency when selecting and managing dates.

 

Introducing the Grid/Chart Add-On, a powerful tool designed to provide a wizard-like experience for integrating grids and charts. This feature enables users to extract data from grids or other components and visualize it through various chart types. With an intuitive setup process, users can select chart types, configure settings, and seamlessly export their visualizations to formats like SVG, PNG, and PDF.

The initial version includes a resizable window with a preview section for chart display and export actions, alongside a setup section for detailed configurations. Users can choose from dynamic chart types such as bar, column, line, pie, and scatter charts, tailoring the visualization to their specific needs. This add-on transforms raw data into insightful visualisations, enhancing data analysis and presentation capabilities.

We are introducing several enhancements to our charting capabilities, designed to improve data visualization and accessibility. Users can now apply patterns in chart rendering, adding a new dimension of visual distinction to data points. In scenarios where no data is available, charts will display No Data label, ensuring clarity and user awareness.

Further enhancing accessibility, we have improved the Sankey diagram with keyboard navigation for nodes and links, as well as right-to-left support. These updates ensure our charts are not only visually appealing but also inclusive and accessible to all users, reinforcing our commitment to delivering comprehensive and user-friendly data visualization tools.

A significant overhaul to our Figma UI Kits is on the way! Central to these updates is the introduction of a rich variables library, seamlessly integrated with our design system. This library includes dynamic color, spacing, and radii variables, ensuring consistency and flexibility across your designs. Additionally, we're enhancing our Typography and Elevation systems to provide even more design possibilities. Dark mode enthusiasts will rejoice as we introduce Dark mode options, complemented by common theme color swatches. Our file structure has been revamped for improved organization, making it easier than ever to find what you need. Stay tuned for the addition of new components, including updates aligned with MS Fluent 2. Detailed component descriptions and improved color contrast are planned later in the year. Get ready for a smoother, more efficient design workflow with our upcoming Kendo and Telerik UI kits for Figma upgrade!

We are introducing a new unified color system across all Kendo themes, ensuring a shared palette of colors. This enhancement will foster consistency and efficiency in styling across various themes, while also decreasing the size of theme files. For additional details, refer to our blog post.