The Kendo UI ListView widget supports setting the selected items via the select method. Up to version 2022.2.802, calling select() triggered a change event. This is no longer the case.
You can see the different behaviors in these two DOJOS: 2022.2.802 vs 2023.1.117 (the item gets selected after a second to make sure the dataSource has finished loading).
I have just found a note regarding this issue in the Breaking Changes section:
As of the 2022 R3 release, theSelectable
events mechanism is altered for a variety of the components. Thechange
event will now be fired only when selection/deselection is performed. Invoking the client-side API methods would not fire the event as well.
Since the ListView appears in the list of affected components, this ticket can be resolved.
Sorry for bothering.