Roadmap

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 introducing a series of upgrades to the Grid component, designed to make it even more functional and user-friendly. These improvements include enhanced editing and selection features such as undo/redo of edits, Excel-like selections, and group selection, providing more flexibility in managing data. Rows and columns will benefit from features like row spanning, multi-row dragging, reordering and grouping, and customizable drag handles and resizing options. Additionally, we want to add Excel-like filtering to simplify data analysis. Later in the year, we would work on improvements to persist of Grid state and adding few new features. These enhancements aim to streamline workflows and deliver a more polished and intuitive experience for developers and end users alike.

In an era where digital security is paramount, our new Input OTP component is designed to simplify and enhance two-factor authentication (2FA) workflows. This dedicated component addresses the growing need for a secure, user-friendly solution to OTP input, combining advanced customization, intuitive interactions, and rigorous security measures. With features like configurable input lengths, automatic focus shift, built-in validation, and accessibility support, the Input OTP component ensures a smooth and secure user experience. Fully customizable to fit any design system, it supports theming, localization, and integration with form validation libraries. Whether you're building login flows or verification steps, this component empowers developers to deliver robust, secure applications with ease.

 

The Gantt chart is getting a suite of powerful updates to improve usability and interactivity. Users will now be able to change task durations by dragging the corners of task bars and adjust task completion with drag editing. Additionally, drag-and-drop functionality will allow for seamless task reorganization within the timeline. To enhance information visibility, tooltips/popovers and customizable tooltip templates are being introduced, offering greater flexibility in displaying task details. These updates significantly enhance the Gantt chart's functionality, making project management more efficient and intuitive.

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.

This update introduces the use of CSS variables in the charts' color system, ensuring a seamless integration with dynamic theming. By leveraging CSS variables, any changes to the application's theme will automatically propagate to the charts, maintaining visual consistency across the UI. Currently, such dynamic changes are not reflected in the charts, resulting in a theming mismatch. This enhancement resolves the inconsistency, aligning the charts with the rest of the design system and providing a cohesive user experience.

 

As part of our commitment to staying at the forefront of web development, we will continue to adopt and integrate the latest features and innovations from the Angular ecosystem. With each new Angular release, we are dedicated to providing Day 1 support for all new versions, ensuring that our components are fully compatible and optimized for the latest updates. By staying aligned with Angular’s evolving capabilities, we empower developers to take advantage of the newest advancements without delay, helping them build cutting-edge applications with confidence and ease. Our ongoing commitment to Angular ensures that you’ll always have access to the most modern and robust features in our component library.

 

To ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation and provide the best possible experience for our users, we will be ending support for Angular v16 in December 2025. This transition will allow us to fully adopt the new features and improvements introduced with Angular v17 and beyond. By focusing on the latest Angular versions, we can deliver enhanced performance, better security, and access to the most current web development features. We encourage our users to upgrade to Angular v17 to take full advantage of these advancements, ensuring a seamless, future-proof experience with our components.

 

At Kendo UI, we are committed to maintaining our leadership in web accessibility by continuously improving the accessibility of our components. We strive to ensure that our components meet the highest web accessibility standards, making applications more inclusive and easier to use for all users, regardless of their abilities. Our ongoing efforts will focus on enhancing keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and overall usability, ensuring that our components provide a seamless experience for everyone. We are dedicated to staying up-to-date with the latest accessibility best practices, and we will continue to evolve and improve our components to support a more accessible web for all.

Following the Unstyled Mode preview in KendoReact, we're considering extending this feature to Kendo UI for Angular if it proves valuable to our users. Unstyled Mode provides the full functionality of our components while removing the default CSS, allowing you to apply your own custom styles or integrate seamlessly with your design system. This approach not only gives you more control over your styling but also helps reduce bundle size by including only the styles you need. If you’ve used Unstyled Mode in KendoReact and found it useful, or if you're interested in it for Angular, we invite you to share your feedback with us via our Feedback portal. Your input will guide us as we consider bringing this feature to Kendo UI for Angular.

 

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.

At Kendo UI for Angular, 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.