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 2 June 2026.
Recently shipped
We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v6.2.0, which helps teams prepare for upcoming changes to Sass, the CSS extension language, by adding support for including GOV.UK Frontend CSS as a Sass module with @use or @forward. We’ve also improved the enhanced File upload component and made several fixes.
In February 2026 we released GOV.UK Frontend v6.0.0. This breaking release includes changes to improve our Sass architecture, use an updated type scale, update our colours and improve flexibility in our page template layout. We’ve also removed a number of deprecated APIs, Sass variables and component options.
Working on now
We’ve started to:
- create a feedback link component and test it in live services
- add a language switcher component
- add an interruption panel variant of the Panel component with an accompanying pattern
- make it easier for non-GOV.UK services to use our header
- explore how we might publish experimental components, patterns and variants
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.