Roadmap

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Planned for Q2

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New Features and Enhancements

• Continue FilterBar enhancements (additional types, UX improvements)
• Continue Forms + state patterns
  • Adaptive behaviors for form fields with popovers
  • Form field label and tooltip API and accessibility improvements
  • Form state wrappers in Common extended library (anvil2-ext-common)
• Deferred Release Currency, Address, Phone, and File form field components

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BETA Features and Enhancements

• Complete TreeSelectField and TreeSelectMenu
• Improve test coverage for Anvil2 components and utils
• Deferred Additional features to DataTable
  • Truncation formatting
  • Surface resizing and DnD
  • Row actions
  • Disable Select All button
  • Hide expand/collapse all rows button
  • Hover background on rows
  • Option to have rows render “selected” visual
  • Pinned/favorited rows
  • Stretch Group by / column grouping

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Docs and AI Improvements

• Deploy Anvil2 Orchestrator MCP (Docs + Storybook + Blocks)
• Define Blocks schema and scaffold initial coded implementations
• Harden and validate Storybook MCP
• Enhance docs site code examples for AI consumption

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Cross-team Collaboration

• Build Carto — a new design system library purpose-built for agentic UX and generative UI, powering Atlas Chat
  Target: production-ready in monolith by June 12.
• Support agentic and Atlas system foundation: token architecture, Figma library structure, and agentic component catalog
• Support mobile framework for agentic and Atlas surfaces

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Delivered in Q1

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New Features and Enhancements

• Released List component (replacement for ul/ol)
• Investigated standalone InlineEdit component — decided to document suggestions instead of building a new component
• Internal improvements to Popover component for UX and accessibility

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BETA Features and Enhancements

• Completed SelectField and MultiSelectField
• Released SelectMenu and MultiSelectMenu
• Released RichTextEditor with @mention support
• Select UX enhancements
  • Selecting filtered items
  • Select only (no search)
  • Opt-in virtualization
  • Grouping and pinning options
  • Disabled and customizable individual options
  • Customizable individual chips on MultiSelectField
• DataTable improvements
  • Editable cell types (number, boolean, custom, select/multiselect)
  • Sorting with large datasets
  • Row virtualization and performance optimizations
  • Warning validation state
  • Additional cell formats (markdown, html)
  • Activatable rows and read-only rows

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Docs and AI Improvements

• Installed Storybook MCP in hammer repo
• Tested Figma Make with Anvil2 from a product builder perspective
• Planned A1 → A2 pattern migration
• Improved test coverage infrastructure (automated PR checks, hammer-token coverage, 80% unit test coverage)
• Storybook MCP and Figma Make documentation for product teams

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Preparing for 3.0 Release

• Tier 3 tokens for fine-grained customization
• New color ramp with thorough set of color options
• Removed @layer usage to prevent style conflicts in monolith
• Released Anvil2 3.0

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Cross-team Collaboration

• Completed migration of Atlas UI components in anvil2-ext-atlas
• Updated monolith to use the Atlas extended library
• Completed migration of Mobile Web View UI components in anvil2-ext-mwv

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Delivered in Q4

• Complete docs site migration to MCP-enabled tool
• Fill in gaps in documentation
• Release Accessibility Foundations docs
• Release beta select components:
  • SelectField
  • MultiSelectField
• DataTable
  • Performance improvements
  • Respond to beta feedback
  • Error state
  • Additional cell formats
• Fix high-priority accessibility bugs (non-breaking)
• Deferred Improve test coverage for Anvil2 components and utils
• Prepare for 2.0 release of anvil2
  • Learn more
• Enhance tokens system (WIP for 3.0 release)
  • Provide tier 3 tokens for customization
  • Finalize new color ramp for 3.0 release (future)
• Build up extended libraries
  • Complete migration of Atlas UI components in anvil2-ext-atlas
  • Complete migration of Mobile Web View UI components in anvil2-ext-mwv
• Release Drilldown component (A1 Back Link variant)
• Release Data Visualization guidance and amcharts theming
• Release Page Header: Edit title feature
• Enhance Adoption Dashboard (UI and Accessibility metrics)
• Designs for RTE, @mention

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Delivered in Q3

• Merge hammer-react and anvil2 packages
• Release DataTable beta
• Release Pagination component
• Complete essential A1→A2 codemods
• Add select all feature for Combobox
• Perform accessibility audit on Anvil2 components
• Build infrastructure for extended libraries
• Explore options for better docs and MCP support
• Get feedback on Combobox and plan for future refactors