Releases

Each Carbon Design System release includes package releases that are independently versioned following the industry-standard semantic versioning specification.

The Carbon team also ships package minor releases every other week and when necessary, patch releases between minor versions to address bugs. Read more in Carbon’s release radar.

Carbon v11 focuses on quality of life updates for designers and developers including token and prop renaming for ease of use, component API updates for a more predictable developer experience, and introducing CSS grid for accurate layout building in line with the design language.

With no changes to the IBM Design Language, v11 will not require any brand-driven product redesigns and teams are free to update at their convenience.

Carbon v10 implemented our newly-updated brand expression (IBM Design Language v2) into our components. The updated components required product teams to redesign product UIs and begin a migration plan to comply with IBM brand experience standards.