Getting Started
Changelog
Release notes for Cult UI, covering new shadcn/ui components, API changes, fixes, and registry updates, newest first.
Updated
September 2026 - 58 new components
Renames
The gradient-rim / frosted kit is now named Halo. Old animated-* doc URLs redirect, and registry install names still resolve via aliases.
| Old | New |
|---|---|
| Animated Badge, Button, Card, Dropzone, Field, Input, Notification, Progress, Search, Segmented, Select, Switch, Tabs, Toast, Toggle Group | Halo * |
| Animated Composer | Prompt Composer |
| Animated Number | Rolling Number |
Docs sidebar is regrouped by product job: AI (Inputs + Generative UI), App & Workspace, Form Controls, Feedback & Status, Navigation & Overlays, Onboarding & Flows, Buttons, Cards, Landing Pages, Illustrations, Media & Mockups, Backgrounds & Effects, and Typography.
New components
- Gateway Endpoint Illustration
- Gateway Route Illustration
- Gateway SVG Illustration
- Illustration Card Grid
- Illustration Cursor
- Illustration Comment Bubble
- Illustration Fluid Rendering
- Illustration Globe Vercel
- Illustration Graph
- Tabs Illustration Vercel
- Circuit Board
- Fluid AI Workloads
- Security Checkpoint
- Merging Bubbles
- AI Blob Warp
- Folded Card
- Shadow Card
- Organic Card
- Organic Card Small
- Organic Button
- Fluted Glass
- Speech Bubble
- Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max
- Apple Keyboard
- Apple Watch Ultra
- Mac Screen
- Apple Pro Display XDR
- Marketing Hero Analytics
- Marketing Feature Code
- Feature Sticky Section
- Analytics Chart
- Kanban Board
- Agent Suggest Card Stack
- Collab Avatar
- Collab Toolbar
- Halo Dropzone
- Halo Search
- Globe (COBE)
- File Icons
- Halo Button
- Copy Button
- Halo Card
- Border Beam Card
- Halo Tabs
- Halo Segmented
- Halo Toggle Group
- Halo Notification
- Halo Toast
- Halo Switch
- Halo Input
- Halo Field
- Halo Progress
- Border Beam Input
- Halo Badge
- Halo Select
- Prompt Composer
- Wizard Expandable
Updated components
May 2026 - Metal, dither, and component refreshes
New components
- Metal Button - Animated liquid metal ring around the shadcn Button with text and icon variants powered by MetalFx.
- Dither Image - Compound figure built on next/image with CSS-only Bayer dither via dither-plugin — full-frame dither, partial masked reveals, and typed props for every plugin CSS variable.
Updated components
March 2026 - New components and major refreshes
New components
- Border Beam Button - Animated border beam around the shadcn Button with text and icon variants.
- Cutout Card - Image card with cutout corner accents, hover motion, inset labels, pins, and reveal-on-hover actions.
- Grid Beam - Animated canvas beams on a grid with palette presets, optional SVG dividers, and a headless
useGridBeamhook. - Cosmic Button - New animated button style with registry and demo support.
- Gradient Button Group - New premium layered button group with animated active state and gradient ring accents.
- Onboarding - New guided onboarding flow component with complete docs and examples.
- Terminal Animation - New composable terminal animation primitives with typed command playback and tabbed scenarios.
- Feature Poll - Poll / feature-vote component with single or multiple selection, optional results, and keyboard navigation.
- Feature Voting - List of features with up-vote support, optional sorting by vote count, and controlled or uncontrolled state.
- Hero Dithering - Split-layout hero section with responsive dithering shader visuals, CTA content, and tech stack badges.
- Hero Color Panels - Split-layout hero section with responsive ColorPanels shader visuals, CTA content, and tech stack badges.
- Hero Heatmap - Split-layout hero section with responsive Heatmap shader visuals, CTA content, and tech stack badges.
- Hero Liquid Metal - Split-layout hero section with responsive LiquidMetal shader visuals, CTA content, and tech stack badges.
- Hero Static Radial Gradient - Split-layout hero section with responsive StaticRadialGradient shader visuals, CTA content, and tech stack badges.
Updated components
- Dynamic Island
- Texture Button
- Shift Card
- Morph Surface
- Intro Disclosure
- Choice Poll
- Shader Lens Blur
Recent components
- Toolbar Expandable
- Vote Tally
- Poll Widget
- Pixel Heading (Char)
- Pixel Heading (Word)
- Pixel Paragraph
- Pixel Paragraph Inverse
- Edge Blur - Stacked backdrop-blur layers with a linear gradient mask for a soft fade at the top or bottom of the viewport.
- SVG Shapes - Wide viewBox SVG panels — polygons, architectural forms, sacred geometry, and Platonic wire projections styled with currentColor.
- SVG Shapes Animated - Wide viewBox SVG shapes with scroll-triggered stroke drawing via Motion, plus extra primitives beyond the static set.
- SVG Bands - Wide 2400-grid SVG section trims — battlements, zigzags, steep hero bands, wavy footers, and dual-notch frames for landing pages.