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Telerik UI for WPF

Release History

Telerik UI for WPF 2025.4.1321

January 21, 2026

What's New

NEW
  • New RadSpeechToTextButton control which provides out-of-the-box speech recognition functionality. Supports continuous or single-shot recognition, different languages and custom recognizers.

Common

NEW
  • Full support for dynamic localization. Now the feature covers all controls in the WPF suite.
FIXED
  • The licensing watermark is displayed over the Visual Studio application when a Telerik WPF control is hosted in the designer of a WinForms project.
CHANGED
  • Starting with upcoming Q2 2026 releases, the following legacy themes will no longer be supported for new controls: Expression Dark, Windows 7, Transparent, Vista, Summer, Office Silver and Office Blue. Support for existing controls in these themes will remain unchanged.
Dependencies
  • Telerik Document Processing Library (DPL) version updated to 2025.4.1319.
  • Minimum required Telerik Licensing version updated to 1.6.36.

Buttons

NEW
  • New RadSpeechToTextButton control which provides out-of-the-box speech recognition functionality. Supports continuous or single-shot recognition, different languages and custom recognizers.

DateRangePicker

FIXED
  • An exception is raised when pasting strings containing non-digit chars.

FileDialogs

FIXED
  • Wildcard pattern *file.txt does not match files like samplefile.txt.

Menu

FIXED
  • Hovering the mouse over a RadMenuItem does not highlight the arrow button.

OfficeNavigationBar

FIXED
  • An exception is raised when loading the control with the Office2013 theme applied via merging the Generic dictionary.

PersistenceFramework

FIXED
  • An exception is raised when saving the layout in .NET 10 if there is a Grid with ColumnDefinition/RowDefinition objects.

RichTextBox

NEW
  • Support for customizing hyperlink tooltips.
  • Improved keyboard selection behavior in tables with arrow keys to match MS Word.
FIXED
  • The current editing style is not preserved when the document layout is refreshed.
Breaking Changes
  • Several existing methods in the KeyboardSelectionHandler class have been modified as detailed below: ExpandTopRight is removed; use the MoveActiveEnd method instead. ExpandDownLeft is removed: use the MoveActiveEnd method instead. UpdateSelection is removed; use the MoveActiveEnd method instead.

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