What's new in this release

The workflows available in ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes are described below and links to information about specific functionality are provided. For a list of issues that were addressed at this release, see Release notes.

Product highlights

• Migrate the relational store from persistent volume-backed storage to a cloud database service.
• Set node affinity and tolerations for data store pods to control the nodes those pods are scheduled to.
• Create or schedule an operational health check report from ArcGIS Enterprise Manager. This report type conducts a suite of tests to assess operational efficiency and detect potential issues early across various areas of ArcGIS Enterprise.
• Enable location sharing as an organization-wide extension, creating a location sharing layer to which licensed users can upload their locations using ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS QuickCapture, ArcGIS Survey123, and ArcGIS Indoors mobile apps. As an administrator, you can use Track Viewer to create track views, which contain the last known locations and tracks of a set of mobile users.
• Enable Workflow Management as an organization-wide extension, allowing ArcGIS Workflow Manager to complete workflows on behalf of organization members, including all tasks they have the privileges to perform, such as creating and sharing an item and editing data.

Organization administration

• Create custom sign-in experiences for the organization and custom categories for registered apps to better organize and control sign-in options for app users and organization members.
• Administrators can enforce multifactor authentication across their organizations. This ensures that members with ArcGIS logins are in compliance with security policies when signing in to ArcGIS Enterprise.
• View your organization's installed patches from the portal.
• Manage the availability of localized and external Esri content in your organization from the portal.
• At this release, the portal's proxy capability is restricted by default to a list of approved host names, which can be updated to fit your organization's security requirements.
• ArcGIS Enterprise Manager respects your browser's display preferences for light or dark mode.
• The Backups page in ArcGIS Enterprise Manager provides the option to show only valid backups.
• Update the container registry host to change the location ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes uses for pulling container images.

Mapping and visualization

• Save map image layers in Map Viewer to save edits at the layer level.
• Drag files directly onto maps in Map Viewer.
• When styling layers based on a numeric field, the spike smart mapping theme allows you to show values proportionally represented by the height of a spike symbol.
• When applying a variety of smart mapping styles, you can generate the style range based on the entire layer or on the current map extent. This determines which data will be used to generate the visual range for a given style.
• When editing features, you can select multiple features using the rectangle and lasso selection tools. Bulk feature selection allows you to delete features, update feature attributes, and move several features at once instead of individually.
• Charts support the following data types: timestamp offset, date only, and big integer.
• You can reorder charts in the Charts pane.
• If a feature layer includes attachments, choose how attachments are sorted and displayed in pop-ups by selecting the attribute by which they are sorted and the sort order.
• The Export button is available on the chart toolbar and can be used to export the chart as an image or a table.

  Learn more about interacting with charts

• Enable time series animation in Map Viewer for feature layers configured to support time series animation.
• When creating or editing a map that you own, share a link to the map at its current extent that will open in Map Viewer.
• When embedding a public map using ready-to-use HTML code, you can preserve the map scale. This ensures that the map opens at the preview scale, preserving the relative size of features across devices. Otherwise, the scale varies to show the features in the preview extent. Both options allow you to embed different views based on what you see in the preview, rather than the web map.
• When styling an imagery layer, processing template, or variable, you can register your changes as a preset style, which allows you to switch between different layer visualizations without reverting.

3D GIS

• The option to create a 3D tiles layer or a scene layer from the portal Content page has been combined into one 3D layer. When you create the web layer in the portal, choose the 3D layer type.

  Note:

  At this release, the layer item names still include the words scene and 3D tiles and will still appear in places in the help documentation. This is to gradually move from the old item names to the new consolidated name.

• Use focus areas to highlight a project area and fade everything else to the background.
• Include 3D slices and pop-ups in a scene presentation by capturing them in slides.
• Directly share a specific slide or share in presentation mode.
• 3D Tiles Integrated Mesh Layers support modifications and can be added to Scene Viewer using a URL.

Analysis

• The data browser used by Enrich Layer now supports adding variables to a Favorites list and has improved search functionality. Many number variables now support choosing a statistic (count, percentage, or index) to calculate within the enrichment areas.

• The Zonal Statistics tool and raster function, and Zonal Statistics as Table tool now use the cell size of the value raster as the analysis cell size for both raster and feature zone input by default. This behavior for feature zone input was supported in an earlier release. This update makes the analysis more accurate because the value raster is the primary raster that influences the output results. To modify the default behavior, use the Cell size environment to specify a number or a raster dataset.

  The overall performance of these zonal statistics tools and raster function have been improved by using up to all available processors. By default, the tools use up to 80 percent of available processors. Memory usage issues have also been addressed when a large number of zones are specified along with a large number of processors.
• Tools and raster functions that honor the Cell size environment now support an empty option. You can accept the default cell size setting or specify different numerical values, a raster dataset, or a keyword setting. Tools that use the Maximum of inputs setting or another setting as the default continue to do so.
• Parameters in a raster function template are now only visible as variables if IsPublic is enabled. Previously, if IsPublic was not enabled for any parameters, all parameters were exposed as variables to run the function template.

Data management

• The Data tab of the item pages for hosted feature layers and hosted tables includes the following improvements:
  • The Update data button allows you to access the interface to add or update data from the Data tab.
  • Options to define a calculation expression are available from the Tables view and Fields view in multiple locations.
  • When defining a calculation expression from the Data tab, you can preview the changes before you calculate. You can also apply filters so that the expression applies to only certain features.
  • Value lists and ranges have been renamed to list and range domains to align with the terminology in ArcGIS Pro.
  • The workflow for defining and editing domains is improved and expanded. You can define list or range domains for date, date only, and time only fields in a hosted feature layer. When defining a list domain for a field in a hosted feature layer, you can import a comma-separated values file (.csv) that includes the label and code to use.
• Add dynamic workspaces for map image layers from the item page.
• Publish service definitions as items that reference data registered to federated server sites.
• Manage network analysis services from the item page.
• Manage web tools from the item page.
• Manage WCS and WMS properties for imagery layers published with those capabilities enabled.
• The Dublin Core+ metadata style is supported. Administrators can configure the organization to use this metadata style.
• A new option in the metadata editor allows you to synchronize attribute field properties for each layer in a hosted feature layer to the layer's metadata.
• The maximum username length for relational databases and cloud data warehouses has been increased to the limit supported by the underlying database. Similarly, the character limit for relational database names has also been increased.
• Share map image layers and feature layers by reference from Elasticsearch and OpenSearch databases using ArcGIS Pro.
• Publish data from Apache Parquet files as a copy to ArcGIS Enterprise using ArcGIS Pro. Supported web layer types for sharing as a copy include hosted feature layers, hosted vector tile layers, hosted scene layers, and hosted tables.

Retirement notices

Review each notice below and determine whether it impacts your organization's workflows.

Map Viewer Classic

ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 does not include Map Viewer Classic. Use Map Viewer instead.

See the Map Viewer Classic deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is no longer supported with ArcGIS Enterprise. Use ArcGIS Experience Builder to create apps instead.

Note:

Existing apps created with ArcGIS Web AppBuilder will not function when you upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0.

See the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Configurable Apps

ArcGIS Configurable Apps is no longer supported in ArcGIS Enterprise. Use ArcGIS Instant Apps instead.

Note:

Existing apps created with ArcGIS Configurable Apps will not function when you upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0.

See the ArcGIS Configurable Apps deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Insights

ArcGIS Insights is no longer supported with ArcGIS Enterprise. See the ArcGIS Insights deprecation notice for more information.