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 14 January 2026.

Recently shipped

We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v5.14.0. This release allows you to remove content licence information from the GOV.UK footer if your service does not provide information under the Open Government Licence (OGL). It also provides a fix for a bug in the VoiceOver screen reader software that affects the menu toggle in the Service navigation component.

In October 2025, we released GOV.UK Frontend v5.13.0, which introduced 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’ve started to:

  • apply a refreshed GOV.UK colour palette to all Design System components
  • work on breaking changes for v6.0.0 – we plan to include typographic scale enabled by default and remove some deprecated features and options

Coming up next

We’re getting ready to:

  • provide a pattern on how services can collect feedback
  • review component and pattern proposals from the community to determine if they will be added to the GOV.UK Design System
  • migrate to the Sass module system
  • make some improvements to the website as a result of research into user’s mental models of content

Future plans

We plan to:

  • improve user journeys between the GOV.UK Design System and other design resources in government
  • explore patterns for data sharing between services, and services where AI is in use
  • create further CSS custom properties
  • build new autocomplete components to replace Accessible autocomplete

Need help?

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