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

• Enable Notebook services to provide organization members with the ability to author notebooks and automate notebook workflows using scheduled tasks, webhooks, and web tools. See how to license and configure this capability and create a notebook.
• Use ArcGIS Web Editor to streamline data maintenance workflows. Web Editor provides a streamlined approach to editing for GIS and non-GIS users. The wide array of editing tools can be used for complex editing workflows. See an Introduction to ArcGIS Web Editor for more information.
• Access ArcGIS Excalibur directly from the organization as an embedded app. See What is ArcGIS Excalibur for more information.

Licensing

ArcGIS License Manager is no longer required to enable named user licensing for ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro extensions, and ArcGIS Drone2Map.

The Editor, GIS Professional Standard, and GIS Professional Advanced user type names have changed to Contributor, Professional, and Professional Plus, respectively. You may notice this update when importing a new license file.

Some user types now include additional apps that were previously available only as add-on licenses. If an app is included with a member's assigned user type, you don't need to assign the member an add-on license for that app. See An introduction to licensing apps to learn more about apps and the user types that include them.

When one or more add-on licenses assigned to members are included with their user types after an upgrade, you will see a notice on the Overview tab of the organization page stating that some members have licenses assigned twice. You can unassign duplicate add-on licenses from all applicable members to free up those licenses.

Organization administration

• Schedule health check reports to run at a fixed time in the future, either once or on a recurring basis.
• Manage pod placement on nodes for GIS services by applying node affinity and tolerations.
• Add persistent volumes as a user managed resource for publishing workflows in your organization. This allows you to register Windows shares directly with ArcGIS Enterprise and use local persistent volumes for workflows such as geocoding.
• Update raster store properties from ArcGIS Enterprise Manager.
• Add a cloud database service for the organization's relational store when configuring a new organization and update cloud relational store credentials from ArcGIS Enterprise Manager.
• Migrate your system managed object store to a cloud object store by creating a backup, undeploying, configuring the organization with a cloud object store, and restoring from the backup.
• Assign a classification schema to your organization to allow members to classify their items.

Mapping and visualization

• Add and delete fields from the Fields pane in Map Viewer.
• Calculate field values in Map Viewer from the table of a hosted feature layer or hosted table layer.
• When styling layers in Map Viewer, the Reference size theme allows you to visualize values in relation to one another using a bounding outline for reference.
• Work with catalog layers in Map Viewer. Catalog layers point to different items and services, providing a centralized reference point for all of your data that can be distributed and accessed efficiently.
• Create and apply filters to additional temporal fields, including date (date and time), date only, and time only fields.
• Configure and view related records for map image layers through pop-ups in Map Viewer.
• Access branch versions in Map Viewer
• View related records associated with a layer in the attribute table.
• Access the Editor pane from the table to add, update, or delete features and records.
• Add layers from files to Map Viewer.
• When customizing labels, adjust the position for labels along lines. You can also set the label background transparency and the background outline color and size.
• Author custom ArcGIS Arcade expressions when adding new cluster and bin fields.
• Box plots in a series now support mean lines when the series uses a Split by field.

3D GIS

• Place a 3D tiles dataset in a folder or cloud storage data store and publish a 3D tiles layer that references the dataset. When you publish a layer that references a precreated dataset, you avoid copying data and save storage space on the ArcGIS Enterprise machines.
• Publish a hosted 3D tiles layer from a 3D tiles package you add to your organization.
• Explore and visualize time-enabled 2D and 3D layers with the time slider.
• Set a visible time period for a layer to combine different datasets into one continuous time story.
• Uploading 3D models is out of beta and now also allows coordinate inputs while editing.
• Give your data the correct elevation using feature attributes and Arcade expressions.
• Create a 3D dashboard directly from Scene Viewer.
• Browse large layer collections with the new catalog layer.
• Add an existing media layer to your scene.
• Improved lighting and overall appearance of integrated mesh layers (scene and 3D tiles) through shading.

Analysis

• Raster functions are now available in Map Viewer, providing additional analysis and visualization options. You can use any of the available functions directly or build custom raster function templates from the content page. The Raster Function Editor can be opened directly from the item page of the raster function template, and raster functions can be combined to create the desired visualization or analysis.
• Two new environment settings are now available for raster functions: Number of retries on failures and Recycle interval of processing workers.
• Join Features now has the Calculate count only option for the Multiple matching records parameter. The Multiple matching records parameter determines which records or statistics are returned in a one-to-one join.
• Enrich Layer now has a Draw input features button that can be used to interactively create an input layer. Drawing input features creates a sketch layer that can be saved in the web map. The Draw input features button was introduced for several other analysis tools in the previous release.
• Zonal Statistics has four new options for the Statistics type parameter: Majority count, Majority percentage, Minority count, and Minority percentage.
• Zonal Statistics as Table has six new options for the Statistics type parameter: Majority count; Majority percentage; Majority value, count, and percentage; Minority count; Minority percentage; and Minority value, count, and percentage.
• Distance Accumulation and Distance Allocation have two new options for the Vertical factor parameter: Hiking time and Bidirectional hiking time. The performance of these tools has also been improved if the Distance method parameter value is Geodesic, or if the Vertical factor or Horizontal factor parameters are set.
• Distance analysis for Distance Accumulation, Distance Allocation, Optimal Path as Line, and Optimal Path as Raster can now properly handle the edge of a projection at global extent when using either a cylindrical projection or a geographic output coordinate system and the Geodesic method.
• Distance Accumulation, Distance Allocation, and Optimal Region Connections now treat invalid cost raster values (negative or zero value) as small positive values, rather than NoData.
• Custom web tools now support GPComposite and GPArealUnit parameter types. These parameter types are not applicable for custom web tools published from ArcGIS Notebooks.

Data management

• The export service operation exports a service definition for a map service (both by-reference and by-value) or a hosted feature service. The resulting service definition can then be published to a new ArcGIS Enterprise organization. When publishing the service definition to the new organization, the option to preserve the service's item ID values are preserved.
• If your organization administrator has configured a classification schema, classify items based on their level of sensitivity. You can classify items as you add them to the portal or classify existing items.
• Migrate and back up group content by exporting items to an export package (.epk) and using the package to import the items into groups in the same or different organizations.
• Rebuild a scene layer cache for scene layers that have associated feature layers. If a scene layer is edited frequently, you can schedule the layer's cache to be rebuilt at specified intervals.
• Date only and time only field types are now recognized when you publish, add to, or update hosted feature layers from Microsoft Excel and comma-separated values (CSV) files. See Date and time fields to learn what formats are supported for each. Big integer field types are also recognized when using these file types to publish, add to, or update hosted feature layers if the field values fall outside the range of -2147483648 to 2147483647.
• From the item page of imagery layers, you can start and stop the service and enable SOEs and SOIs.
• From the item page of locator items, you can start and stop the geocode service and configure properties.
• For map image layers and feature layers that reference a snapshot of data copied from a cloud data warehouse, you can schedule a task to automatically refresh the snapshot of the data. The existing option to immediately refresh the snapshot has moved from the Overview tab to the Settings tab of the map image layer's item page. See Refresh data for snapshot layers for more information.
• If filters or queries of nonspatial fields in your hosted feature layer are slow, you can define attribute indexes on them. To improve queries that search for words or phrases in string fields, you can add a full-text index.