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Progress’ next release breaks new ground in user interface development with professionally built design system assets, advanced data-driven visualizations and Day-Zero support for the latest .NET and JavaScript frameworks. Save your seat for the Progress Telerik and Kendo UI 2024 Q4 release webinars and learn more!

Are you ready to unleash the Telerik and Kendo UI 2024 Q4 release perks? It comes on November 20 with great advancements to an already robust toolset for modern-looking user experiences—from professionally designed building blocks and customization tools to rich components’ functionality with support for the newest frameworks.

With this fall’s release, design and development teams will find the solutions to emerging problems like the design-to-code handoff, while providing smooth data-driven experiences, support for .NET 9, Angular 19, KendoReact integration with Astro and more.

Read on for an exclusive sneak peek of our upcoming release highlights and release webinars! We’re thrilled to be sharing a preview of the latest features and improvements that our development team has been working on. In this blog post, we’ll be giving you a glimpse of what to anticipate and a taste of the exciting new capabilities that will soon be available to you.

Join us for our release webinars to see the new components, design assets and robust features in action and learn how they can help you achieve more in less time. In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at what’s in store:

What’s Coming in the 2024 Q4 Release?

Faster, Smoother and More Efficient Design-to-Code Process

  • 70+ professionally designed Page Templates and Building Blocks are available for Kendo UI for Angular, KendoReact, Telerik UI for Blazor and Telerik DevCraft, adding even more productivity and reusability.

  • » Page Templates: 10 professionally designed, highly customizable and accessible page templates.

    » Building Blocks: 60+ ready to copy-paste, fully responsive and customizable building blocks.

  • The powerful ThemeBuilder app can now be used to style more than just Telerik and Kendo UI components with features like Building Blocks support, support for custom HTML elements, ability to convert Figma components to HTML, and more.

  • Multiple enhancements further facilitating the design-to-development workflow include enriched design system documentation for more component coverage, support for Dart enabling faster leverage of new Sass features, unstyled option for KendoReact themes for more flexible styling, plus additional theming and size improvements.

Embracing Next-Gen Frameworks and Integrations

  • Day Zero compatibility with .NET 9 and Angular 19. Telerik and Kendo UI continue to provide renowned support for the newest .NET and JavaScript frameworks.

  • Support for Angular hybrid standalone components and KendoReact first-class integration with Astro demonstrate our commitment to adopting technology improvements for a more seamless development experience.

Embedded Data-Driven Experiences with Data Visualization and Reporting Features

  • New Kendo UI Data Grid-Chart integration for a faster chart generation upon a simple Grid selection accompanies the other Chart improvements across Telerik and Kendo UI libraries, including patterns support in chart rendering and ability to use CSS variables in color system.

  • Modern and accessible reporting experience with enhancements like event handlers support in Telerik Reporting, simplified reports web service integration, user-invoked initial report preview and right-to-left (RTL) text support in Skia-based rendering.

UI Components and Features for Enterprise Development Teams

  • Ongoing Grid updates across Telerik and Kendo UI to help cover any data-heavy app requirement like sticky columns alongside column virtualization, built-in print option, support for responsive columns, toggle edit mode and more.

  • DatePager component in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI for easier navigation through paginated alongside a GridSplitter control for resizing rows and columns within a Grid Panel.

  • Other major milestones include full feature parity between PivotGrid and PivotGrid v2 in Kendo UI for jQuery and Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC, PDF Viewer annotations and form filling for enhanced user interactions and flexibility and CSP compliant Spreadsheet control.

Webinars to Explore the Release

Find out what’s new in your favorite UI component libraries, reporting, mocking and debugging tools!

You can register for more than one webinar. (Hint: Find the details in the webinar pages linked below.)

Progress Kendo UI 2024 Q4 Release Webinar | December 2

Progress Kendo UI 2024 Q4 Release Webinar - December 2, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET

Discover all updates across KendoReact and Kendo UI for Angular, Vue and jQuery, as well as ThemeBuilder. Tune in 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Monday, December 2.

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Progress Telerik .NET Web, Desktop, Mobile & Cross-Platform Products 2024 Q4 Release Webinar | December 3

Progress Telerik .NET Web, Desktop, Mobile & Cross-Platform Products 2024 Q4 Release Webinar - December 3, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET

Discover all updates across Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for ASP.NET MVC, UI for ASP.NET AJAX, UI for WPF, UI for WinForms, UI for .NET MAUI, and ThemeBuilder. Tune in 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, December 3.

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Progress Telerik Reporting, JustMock and Fiddler 2024 Q4 Release Webinar | December 5

Progress Telerik Reporting, JustMock and Fiddler 2024 Q4 Release Webinar - December 5, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET

Discover all updates across Telerik Reporting, JustMock and Fiddler Everywhere. Join us Thursday, December 5, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET.

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And the Best Part About Telerik and Kendo UI Release Webinars?

The live webinars are a great opportunity for you to ask questions before and during the webinars. We’ll be waiting to hear from you on X, formerly Twitter—just use the #heyTelerik and #heyKendoUI hashtags.

Sign up today to make sure you don’t miss these great events with our experienced developer advocates and experts:

  • Ed Charbeneau, Microsoft MVP, speaker, author of “Blazor: A Beginner’s Guide” and host of “TheBlazorPower Hour”
  • Sam Basu, Microsoft MVP, speaker, DevReach co-organizer and author of numerous articles on .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms
  • Alyssa Nicoll, Google Developer Expert and Angular Developer Advocate
  • Kathryn Grayson Nanz, Developer Advocate with a passion for React, UI and design
  • Rick Hellwege, Principal Sales Engineer, reporting guru and innovator with a passion for experimenting with the latest technologies and frameworks

Can’t wait to see you soon! 😊


About the Author

Iva Borisova

Iva is a Senior Product Marketing Specialist for Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET AJAX at Progress. With a solid marketing background, she sees product marketing as the effort to bring the right product to the right people by meeting the right needs. Outside of work, she enjoys reading (including manga), watching anime, drawing, eating nice food and exploring the big, big world.

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