On behalf of the Kendo UI team, I am tremendously excited to announce Kendo UI Core, a free and open-source distribution of Kendo UI (released under the Apache License, version 2.0). We have published the kendo-ui-core repository to GitHub and are acceptingcontributions from the community. A pre-built version is also available for download. Finally, our commercial version of Kendo UI, Kendo UI Complete has been renamed to Kendo UI Professional.
A Brief History of Kendo UI
986 days ago, we announced Kendo UI to the world. Our team's original goal was to solve the core problem of "framework assembly" that frequently plagued jQuery-based development at the time. Since then, the product's focus and features have expanded to include Kendo UI Mobile, MVVM support, AngularJS bindings, adaptive widgets, and much more. We've incorporated Kendo UI into products and frameworks like the Telerik Platform, Telerik Analytics, Sitefinity, TeamPulse, Test Studio, Google Chrome, Visual Studio, NuGet, Sublime Text,ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, and many others. We've built countless demos, tackled assumptions about HTML5, written whitepapers, and iterated like crazy throughout this entire journey. Looking back, it's humbling when you review just how much has happened: