The Telerik and Kendo UI 2024 Q1 Release Is Here—See What’s New!

Progress Developer Tools’ first release for 2024 brings AI into UI, introducing an AI Prompt component alongside 10+ new UI controls across the portfolio, Angular 17 support, multiple data visualization enhancements and so much more. Read on to find out what we’ve baked up!

2024 comes with a new Telerik and Kendo UI release and introduces an updated component release cadence. The current 2024 Q1 release is the first of the four planned releases throughout the year—one per quarter:

• 2024 Q1 Release – February
• 2024 Q2 Release – May
• 2024 Q3 Release – August
• 2024 Q4 Release – November

We moved from three to four releases per year to provide you with regular updates and more UI goodness. You may be wondering what will happen with our popular livestream and also … where is your webinar invite? We’ll still have these but on a phased schedule—in May and November. Patches and minor release updates will be issued in between on an as-needed basis.

Now, back to the release as it sure brings some nice additions. With 2024 Q1, Progress continues to empower developers to rapidly build engaging and highly functional digital experiences, while looking for trends that could reshape UI/UX development. In addition to inclusive, customizable and modern design, Telerik and Kendo UI products strive to make digital experiences more intuitive and responsive, including even human-like interactions.

Let’s Dive Deeper into the 2024 Q1 Highlights

New Components for Innovation and App Modernization

• Blending AI with UI with a new AI Prompt component: The AI Prompt allows you to align digital experiences with natural human behavior. Devised to streamline the integration of your favorite GenAI services into your Telerik UI for Blazor, Kendo UI for Angular, KendoReact and Kendo UI for Vue applications, this new component sends prompts and then maps the response.
• New Blazor UI components: Modernize applications faster with the ultimate library for your Blazor projects. Apart from the AI Prompt, Telerik UI for Blazor is also enriched with an AppBar, PopUp and PopOver controls.
• New Slider component in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI: The most comprehensive UI library of .NET MAUI controls is enriched with a stylish Slider that displays a value in a predefined min-max range.
• Toggle Button in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC: You may think that these two libraries already have it all, but there is always something new to add … like the new Toggle Button control that enables grouping of related options between various buttons.
• New Chip and ChipList in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX: List items in stylish containers with the newly introduced Chip and ChipList UI controls.
• New controls for desktop apps: We continue boosting our desktop libraries, adding a highly customizable DateRangePicker in Telerik UI for WPF and supporting Windows 11 Light and Dark compact themes in Telerik UI for WinForms.
• KendoReact Server Data Grid Component: KendoReact now embraces React Server Components. The well-known DataGrid is the first experimental KendoReact Server Component you can play around with.

Expanded Design System Tooling for an Easier Design-to-Development Workflow

• Enriched design system documentation: Components such as PDFViewer, FileManager, Rating, Chat (Conversational UI), Wizard, Splitter, Stepper, Tooltip, Slider, Timeline, Card, etc. join the large collection detailed in the Design System documentation.
• Progress ThemeBuilder enhancements: We’ve added 600+ component specific theme variables to the unique and powerful Progress ThemeBuilder app, ability to export variables and modes from Figma, and more.
• Improved color system: We’ve implemented a new color system for Telerik and Kendo UI themes, featuring unified theme customization and flexible Sass and CSS variable support, ensuring effortless integration with any design system.

Reporting and Visualization Features for Embedded Data-Driven Experiences

• Multiple enhancements for advanced reporting experience: Last year we introduced a SkiaSharp-based graphics library, enabling Linux deployment. With 2024 Q1, we’ve added the ability to export to Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Linux as well as support for remote WPF and WinForms Report Viewers in the Linux report engine.
• New data visualization components: Create diagrams that visualize changing flows with the new Sankey Chart in KendoReact or benefit from the new Polynomial, Exponential, Power and Logarithmic Trendline types in the Trendline Chart.
• Legend customization in Telerik UI for Blazor, Kendo UI for Angular and KendoReact Charts: Effortlessly customize not only the color, but also the shape of the markers indicating the chart series.
• Improved Spreadsheet functionality in Angular: Enriched with a convenient context menu, the Kendo UI for Angular Spreadsheet delivers advanced capabilities, such as the ability to copy and paste content from the clipboard directly into the cells or to fine-tune the rows and columns appearance.

Industry-Leading Support for the Latest Frameworks

• Compatibility with Angular 17 or the Angular Renaissance: Ready to support the v17 of Angular, Kendo UI for Angular is now fully compatible with the latest features and innovations.
• KendoReact integration with Next.js: Take full advantage of Next.js while using KendoReact’s rich component library. The KendoReact UI components are fully compatible with Next.js and are tested and adapted to operate efficiently with server-side rendering and the Next.js framework.
• Compatibility with .NET 8: Following the evolution of .NET 8, Telerik products feature compatibility with .NET 8 official.

Features for Productivity and Accessibility Boost

• Multiple Grid enhancements across Telerik and Kendo UI: Improvements like row and column spanning, copy to clipboard and aggregates for selected data ensure developers like you are equipped with a high-performant, full-featured Grid to cover any data-heavy app requirement.
• Prefix and suffix adornments: Multiple Telerik and Kendo UI components like MultiSelect, AutoComplete and ComboBox include options for adding custom items/ornaments as prefix and suffix adornments.
• Scheduler improvements in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI and Kendo UI for Angular: The .NET MAUI Scheduler is enriched with new date formatting properties and built-in dialogs for handling appointments, while the Angular Scheduler got equipped with a convenient year view, drag-and-drop scheduling capability and new styling options.
• Keyboard navigation in charts: Pursuing the goal of complying with accessibility standards and empowering you to build inclusive UI, we’ve added Keyboard Navigation to Charts.
• Document Processing Libraries (DPL) enhancements: Telerik Document Processing Libraries now support generation of ZUGFeRD/Factur-X standard-compatible documents, combining PDF and XML content.
• New Telerik JustMock console: With no installer needed, this new console provides a standardized and easy approach to provisioning and running CI/CD unit tests that leverage JustMock’s advanced capabilities.
• New network capture mode, new breakpoints and improved protocols support in Fiddler Everywhere: These new enhancements will allow you to capture network traffic in a more powerful way, identify errors more quickly and efficiently, and decode and investigate an even wider array of session types.

What’s New & Release History

What you’ve read are just the highlights. To see everything that is new in 2024 Q1, visit the What’s New in Telerik and Kendo UI Products page. For a deeper dive into each product, follow the links below.

It will help you to follow along if you download the latest bits. Existing Telerik or Kendo UI customers can do this right from Your Account page, or by updating your NuGet package reference to the latest version in your solutions. For our Angular, React and Vue libraries, you just need to install the latest npm packages.

If you’re new to Progress DevTools, our products come with a free 30-day trial so you can check them out for yourself.

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