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 27 August 2026.
Recently shipped
We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v6.5.0, which adds the Feedback component to help you gather feedback from your users and the Language navigation component to let your users switch between languages your service offers.
Both these components have been released as trial components, using our new component lifecycle statuses. See each component’s guidance page to learn how you can help us move them to ‘Stable’ status.
In July 2026, we released GOV.UK Frontend v6.4.0, which adds an interruption variant of the Panel component, which you can use to pause the user’s journey and give them important information. We also improved the Date input component and introduced a new inverse-text functional colour to use on dark backgrounds.
Working on now
We’ve started to:
- make it easier to maintain the GOV.UK Prototype Kit and docs
- explore the ways service teams prototype their work
- carry out an accessibility audit of GOV.UK Frontend
- explore how we can more easily communicate the change history of our components
Future plans
We plan to:
- run a discovery into dark mode
- improve user journeys between the GOV.UK Design System and other design resources in government
- explore patterns for data sharing between services and for services where AI is in use
- create further CSS custom properties
- build new autocomplete components to replace Accessible autocomplete
- iterate the structure of the website
Need help?
If you’ve got a question about the GOV.UK Design System, contact the team.