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 22 November 2024.
Recently shipped
We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v5.7.1 with updated department colours.
Previously, we’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v5.7.0, which includes an update to the Royal Arms in the GOV.UK footer component. We’ve also added new features to help services create their own JavaScript components using GOV.UK Frontend.
We’ve also recently:
- introduced a new Service navigation component and published a new pattern to Help users to navigate a service
- updated the list of organisations and brand colours
- added a new feature to stop long words from ‘breaking’ out of components
- improved how the Breadcrumbs component appears on screen readers
- fixed some alignment issues with Radio buttons and Checkboxes
- introduced new features to help you include only the components your service uses
Working on now
We’re:
- making enhancements to the File upload component
- planning community events and activities for 2025
- doing 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:
- work on breaking changes for V6.0.0. We plan to include typographic scale enabled by default, iterate the navigation component and remove some deprecations
- continue our Javascript work and make improvements to the Character Count component, Tabs component and Accordion component
Future plans
We plan to:
- drop support for Ruby Sass and LibSass and migrate to the Sass module system
- 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.