After upgrading to Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX 2026 Q1 (2026.1.211.462) the HtmlChart Sparkline cannot initialize.

The demo page loads, but the chart is empty and the component is not usable.

The browser console shows a JavaScript initialization failure originating from the Telerik scripts.

The first error thrown is:

Uncaught ReferenceError: kendo is not defined
    at Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd...

Immediately after that a second error appears:

Uncaught TypeError: kendo.jQuery(...).kendoSparkline is not a function

The second error is a cascade failure because the Kendo widgets are never registered due to the first error.