Roadmap

The new Kendo UI for Angular Spreadsheet component will bring Excel-inspired user experiences and many of the well-known features for data binding, selection, formatting, editing, and more in your React applications.

 

We launched the new Telerik and Kendo UI design system documentation site containing resources, design assets and frontend documentation for Telerik and Kendo UI libraries.

This initial release of the Progress Design System site contains related design and frontend documentation for nearly 20 of the most essential components, and we aim to continuously expand it with the ultimate goal of providing everything you need to create intuitive and beautiful digital experiences and design systems based on Telerik and Kendo UI component libraries.

Our plan is to continuously enhance the design system documentation site throughout 2023 and allow you to easily build your own design system based on Telerik and Kendo UI components.

As part of our continuous efforts to improve the Telerik and Kendo UI products’ quality, theming mechanism and Content Security Policy (CSP) compliance, we are planning to transition gradually from font icons to SVG icons.

Step 1: SVG Icons (R1 2023 – January 2023)

Starting in R1 2023, we introduced and started incorporating SVG icons into Telerik and Kendo UI products. We provided a global configuration setting that enables you to keep the current default font icon type, but also allows you to render SVG icons.

Step 2: SVG Icons as Default in Telerik and Kendo UI Components (R2 2023 – June 2023)

With R2 2023, we will perform a change in the default type of icons in Telerik and Kendo UI libraries and components from font to SVG. This change marks the next milestone in a series of improvements related to Content Security Policy (CSP).

Step 3: Detach Font Icons from Themes (R3 2023 – October 2023)

With R3 2023, we aim to extract the Font icons as a separate package and detach the inline font declaration from the Telerik and Kendo UI themes.

Important to note is that the themes will continue to support both font and SVG icons in components, thus allowing you to decide which type of icons to take advantage of. However, using the font icons will require a separate stylesheet to be referenced by clients.

These last bits of changes will allow us to provide our customers with a more secure and efficient icon system and the option to load and reference only needed resources.

Read about the strategy for improving Telerik and Kendo UI web component libraries by moving from font icons to SVG icons in the dedicated blog post.

 

The developers embedding Telerik Reporting into Angular applications will be able to implement report preview functionality using a native Angular report viewer control on top of our Telerik for Angular UI theming and bindings and avoiding the jQuery dependency. The new native Angular report viewer will allow you to seamlessly integrate reporting into existing application and align styling between all other Kendo UI components on your page. 

 

We recognize that the Data Grid is among the most widely used components in the Angular component library. For that reason, we constantly monitor feedback, support, standards, and UX trends to ensure the Data Grid remains the best in class. Here is what we are working on:

• Row spanning
• Dedicated context menu
• more

We plan to deliver several new valuable features to the Kendo UI for Angular Gantt Chart component.

• Marker for the current time
• Date formatting in timeline header
• PDF export functionality
• UX improvements for the popup edit form such as adding a tabs feature and exposing additional task properties that can be configured in it.

In 2023, we plan to improve the UX related to navigation, editing, and validation in the Kendo UI for Angular DateInput and Date & Time picker components.

Thanks to your requests in the product feedback portal, we plan to ship the following new features and improvements:

• Drill-down option for data series
• Improved animations
• Control of chart legend display
• and more!

In 2023 we plan to expand the collection of Angular Chart components by adding a Trendline chart. You will be able to easily illustrate trends in data series and provide charting predictions capabilities to your Angular applications.

We will work towards making sure Kendo UI for Angular components adjust smoothly to various screen sizes. On the short term roadmap plan we will work to ensure adaptiveness and responsiveness of:

• Breadcrumb, Toolbar, Pager, Window/Dialog
• Data Grid component
• and more

Pursuing the goal to be CSP compatible and ultimately ensure strict CSP compliance for Kendo UI for Angular, we are planning to implement the following incremental changes in 2023:

• With R2 2023, we plan to replace all font icons internally used with SVG icons in order to address the font-src directive;
• Further in 2023, we plan to detach font-related CSS from Kendo themes in order to remove the need for the font-src directive.

In our upcoming 2023 releases, we will continue with our efforts to improve the overall accessibility of Kendo UI for Angular components. This will ensure compliance with WAI-ARIA, Section 508, and the new WCAG 2.2 standards, as well as providing solid documentation, demos, and A11Y-related resources.