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 21 October 2026.

Recently shipped

We’ve released GOV.UK Frontend v6.6.0, which includes improvements to how the Character count component works, along with some minor fixes.

We’ve released GOV.UK Prototype Kit v14.0.0, which improves your prototype’s security by updating many vulnerable dependencies and removing support for outdated versions of Node.js. It also adds support for pkg: URLs in Sass and ensures the Prototype Kit works keeps working with the later versions of npm.

We recently added change history pages to most of our components. We’re working to have change history pages for all components.

In August 2026, we 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.

Working on now

We’ve started to:

  • carry out an accessibility audit of GOV.UK Frontend
  • make needed changes to our codebase to allow latest versions of the tools we use to run
  • investigate expanding the use of functional colours in our components
  • explore future work on our navigation and how we organise our components and patterns

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 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.