What’s new

Get the latest USWDS news and information here. Learn more about our product development and process, dive deeper into our monthly call topics, and see how we work with our partners to improve the government technology space.

  • Release notes

    Find summaries of each USWDS update on our GitHub releases page. Release notes explain bug fixes, new features, and other changes.

    Read the USWDS release notes

  • GitHub discussions

    How our growing community of government engineers, content specialists, and designers participate and contribute to improving USWDS.

    USWDS GitHub discussion

News and updates

updates

Introducing USWDS 3.0

By Dan O. Williams, James Mejia, Amy Leadem, Bonnie Cameron, Charlie Mahoney

USWDS 3.0 is an important major design system update that's easy to apply to an existing USWDS 2 project. USWDS 3.0 allows teams to update their projects to modern Sass syntax, improve performance, and reduce the size of project CSS.

updates

Working with the U.S. Web Design System team

By Jona Decker

Learn how the Accelerator team collaborated with other digital teams and end-users across the federal government to bring new and updated components to the USWDS community in Release 2.10.

updates

What’s next for the U.S. Web Design System

By Arden Klemmer, Natalie Kurz, Norah Maki, and Kim Schulke

Today we’re releasing a new and exciting report and strategy that outlines what’s next for the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) and our community.

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Latest updates

Meaningful code and guidance updates are listed in the following table:

Date Description
2024-11-20

Combined “What’s new” and “News and updates” pages. More information: uswds-site#2958

2024-02-26

Added release notes section. More information: uswds-site#2318