Progress, the provider of application development and infrastructure software, has announced the R1 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries for app development available.

Progress arms developers with advanced customization and accessibility functionality across all Telerik and Kendo UI libraries to help them easily create beautiful user interfaces that are built to serve the needs of all users. The recently launched Progress ThemeBuilder Pro tool for easily implementing design in UI components, expands its feature set with new capabilities such as custom fonts, font icons and metric variables, allowing developers to easily style their UI components and implement brand guidelines and design systems with no CSS.

Progress Telerik UI for Blazor with over 100 components, adds new UI components, including Signature, Avatar, Chip and ChipList, and updates like Data Grid compact mode and adaptive rendering in date and select-type components, expanding the industry’s largest UI library for app development with Blazor.

Progress Telerik UI for .NET MAUI, the largest UI library for .NET MAUI, now offers new components, including Toolbar, ImageEditor, ProgressBar, Accordion and SignaturePad. Progress Telerik UI for WinForms adds a new Windows 11 theme in sync with the refreshed Windows 11 OS, delivering a smoother look and feel to WinForms apps.

Progress delivers support for .NET 7 official release –.NET 7 is supported across all relevant Telerik UI libraries and tools, enabling developers to upgrade their projects or start new ones with .NET 7 and utilize the framework’s enhanced performance and productivity features.

Progress introduces enhancements to attributes and keyboard navigation to meet compliance standards such as WAI-ARIA, Section 508, and WCAG 2.1. Additionally, all Telerik products now have updated documentation and demos focused on accessibility, as well as updated VPAT templates.

Progress introduces close to 15 new components, features and Data Grid enhancements across Progress Kendo UI for Angular, Progress KendoReact, Progress Kendo UI for Vue and Progress Kendo UI for jQuery. Support for Angular 15 is now available for excellent developer experience and app performance.

Today’s release also includes accessibility enhancements and updated keyboard navigation features to meet compliance standards (WAI-ARIA, Section 508 and WCAG 2.1) and a new color swatch, called Ocean Blue A11Y.

A new PDFViewer is available in Progress KendoReact, enabling developers to review PDF files directly in the browser without the need to download them. The PDFViewer offers Print and Save functionality, a built-in accessible and localized toolbar and various configuration settings.

In addition to over 100 current components, a new component, ActionSheet, and Data Grid enhancements have been added, expanding the industry’s most comprehensive UI library for app development with Angular. Progress also introduces Data Grid and Chart enhancements, a new sample app, accessibility improvements and more.

Kendo UI for Vue now offers more than 100 Vue components, including Compact Data Grid, TreeList enhancements and accessibility updates, among others.

The Telerik and Kendo UI R1 2023 release is now available.