Roadmap

This roadmap shows what we’re working on and planning to do.

Some things on the roadmap might change – the purpose is to tell you what’s coming up and help service teams prepare and plan their own work.

See our GitHub team board for more details on our plans and day-to-day activities.

Last updated 17 July 2025.

Recently shipped

We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v5.13.0, which introduces new Sass functions to help write @media and @container queries, mixins and functions whilst still using custom breakpoints or GOV.UK Frontend’s $govuk-breakpoints setting.

In September 2025, we released GOV.UK Frontend v5.12.0, which introduced a new mixin you can use to style the focus state if you’re building your own form input components.

In June 2025, we released GOV.UK Frontend v5.11.0, which includes improvements to the Service navigation component, making it easier to use on mobile devices and offering a new inverse colour option. We also added deprecation warnings for code built with the LibSass library.

In May 2025, we released GOV.UK Frontend v5.10.0 (and later fix versions) and GOV.UK Frontend v4.10.0. These are the first steps towards refreshing the GOV.UK brand across government services.

Working on now

We’re carrying out research with services teams on how they are using the Design System and how they upgrade their service

Coming up next

We’re getting ready to:

  • apply a refreshed GOV.UK colour palette to all Design System components for a future release
  • work on breaking changes for v6.0.0 – we plan to include typographic scale enabled by default, iterate the navigation component and remove some deprecated features and options
  • continue our JavaScript work and make improvements to the Character count component, Tabs component and Accordion component

Future plans

We plan to:

Need help?

If you’ve got a question about the GOV.UK Design System, contact the team.