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Kendo UI for jQuery

Roadmap

Coming in 2025

After a strong end of 2024 with the latest Q4 release, the Kendo UI for jQuery team is pleased to announce the new UI components and features to be released in 2025.

Here is the timeline for our upcoming major releases this year:

  • 2025 Q1 Release - Month: February
  • 2025 Q2 Release - Month: May
  • 2025 Q3 Release - Month: August
  • 2025 Q4 Release - Month: November

Below is the list of what we plan to work on in the second half of the year.  

Your feedback is a huge factor in these plans. After all, our mission is to make your life easier. We encourage you to keep sharing your thoughts and ideas for what you would like to see next developed in the jQuery component library in our dedicated feedback portal.   
 
The items below are what we feel comfortable announcing, but there is more on our radar. Check back periodically for updates.

Kendo UI for jQuery

AI-Powered Grid Features

New feature

We’re introducing AI-Powered Grid Features - a suite of intelligent enhancements that transform dense data tables into intuitive, conversational experiences. Without changing your existing markup, you’ll be able to issue plain-language commands - typed or spoken - to sort, filter, or spotlight key records on the fly.

By introducing AI-Powered Grid Features, we aim to reduce user friction when exploring large datasets, accelerate insight generation through conversational interactions, and make the Grid component a more intuitive and self-guided way to explore data, empowering both technical and non-technical users to discover value without wrestling with complex filters or manual summaries.

 

Inline AI Prompt Component

New component
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.

 

New Speech-to-Text Button Component

New component

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 prompts in one click. It allows developers to customize behavior and styling as necessary.

Chat Component Revamp

New feature

As AI-driven interactions become the norm, we’re advancing our Chat Component to support the next generation of real-time, intelligent communication. This revamp introduces a modernized design and key feature upgrades that enable both human-to-human and human-to-AI interactions through a flexible and extensible chat interface. New enhancements include predefined templates for in-chat attachments, structured messages and attachment actions, improved link and message styling, and a redesigned header element that centralizes chat context and navigation. The message input area now supports a more expressive TextArea with built-in action adornments like emoji or file upload. Additionally, speech-to-text integration makes the chat experience more accessible.

For AI use cases, the new Prompt Mode optimizes LLM-based conversations, offering support for contextual memory through events, formatted AI responses (e.g., code, markdown, HTML), response interruption via a stop button, token tracking, and styled quick suggestions for AI prompts like “Summarize” or “Fix grammar.”

 

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AI Prompt Component Improvements

New feature

The AI Prompt component will be enhanced with new capabilities aimed at improving user interaction and output control. A new Response Formatting feature will introduce structured output handling through a set of customizable events, enabling seamless integration with third-party libraries for tailored response presentation. Additionally, the component will integrate with the upcoming Speech-to-Text module, allowing users to input prompts via voice for a more natural and accessible experience. A Stop Response feature will also be introduced within the text area, giving users the ability to interrupt response generation in real time, offering greater control and responsiveness during AI interactions.

 

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Workflow Diagram

New feature

The Diagram component is set to receive a major upgrade focused on creating modern workflow diagrams. This enhancement will introduce a rich collection of out-of-the-box workflow shapes, designed to streamline the creation of process flows and business logic diagrams. Alongside these new shapes, the update will include several usability and performance improvements aimed at modernizing the component’s design and interactivity, making it easier and more intuitive for developers to build rich, dynamic diagramming experiences.

 

Tour UI Component

New component

The Tour UI component will offer interactive guided tours that assist users in familiarizing themselves with the application's functionality.

The component will provide a guide helping users understand how to navigate and utilize the features of the application, and also to provide proper guidance during onboarding.

 

Adaptiveness of Kendo UI for jQuery Components

Improvement

The Data Grid, Toolbar, Pager, TabStrip, and other UI components will be enhanced to support adaptive behavior so that their design and UX are seamless regardless of the device they are displayed on.

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Support for jQuery 4

New feature

We are committed to staying current with the latest technologies, and with the official release of jQuery 4.0.0, Kendo UI for jQuery will fully support all its new features. This ensures that your applications can leverage the latest improvements and innovations in the jQuery ecosystem, providing you with cutting-edge tools and capabilities for building modern web applications. Support for jQuery 4 beta is already in place.

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Multiple Components Enhancements

Improvement

We closely monitor your suggestions, and based on your feedback, we will implement gradual improvements to our existing components. Keep an eye on future improvements to the Grid, Scheduler, Chart, TabStrip, Menu components, and many others.

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