• Cleaner, theme-driven styling: Themes will define the default look and feel for a more cohesive design experience. 

• Full customization remains: You can still override any default by explicitly setting component API options. 

• Consistent behavior across themes: A unified system ensures predictable styling and easier maintenance. 

• Clear hierarchy of control: Theme defaults → Component API overrides → Runtime customization. 

We will be optimizing the Kendo UI for Vue DataGrid to deliver faster rendering and smoother interactions, especially for large datasets and complex layouts. Upcoming improvements will focus on enhancing virtualization efficiency, and optimizing complex scenarious with heavy data loads. These updates ensure better experience and scalability for end-users in enterprise applications. 

 

We’re adding support for sticky group headers in the Kendo UI for Vue DataGrid component. This enhancement ensures that group headers remain visible while scrolling through large datasets, making it easier to understand the context of grouped data without losing track of which group you’re viewing. This improvement enhances usability for complex grids and delivers a smoother, more intuitive data exploration experience. 

 

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. 

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.

 

 

 

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.