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

• Architecture profile choices now consist of an availability profile to define the level of redundancy and a performance profile to define the resources allocated to each pod.

• With additional licensing, you can configure workflow management services. This premium capability provides the ability to orchestrate processes that incorporate automation and third-party integrations.

• Configure node affinity and tolerations for shared service resources and system deployments.

• Use EKS Pod Identity to handle authentication to cloud object storage services when deploying ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes on an AWS EKS cluster.

• Karpenter is now a supported cluster autoscaler when deploying ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes on AWS EKS or Azure AKS.

• Enable response caching from the organization to increase scalability and performance of feature layers.

Organization administration

• Manage which members of your organization can take an ArcGIS Pro license offline through a dedicated privilege.

• Transfer a member's user type, role, content, groups, add-on licenses, settings, and member categories to another existing member.

• Use interactive charts, tables, and lists on the Dashboard tab to access detailed information about your organization's content, members, and groups.

• Use the Reports tab to create and schedule new reports and manage existing ones.

• Use audit logs to monitor and troubleshoot user activity and system changes.

• Use the metrics API to gather information about your organizations users and content, as well as an expanded set of service metrics.

Mapping and visualization

• Split and merge features when updating feature geometry in Map Viewer. Additionally, use new selection tools to choose between replacing, adding to, or removing a selected feature.

• Create and edit true curves using drawing tools in Map Viewer, and switch between drawing tools when creating and editing features.

• Field value formatting and configuring bin fields has been updated to better align with internationalization standards, which offers improved locale support for date and number fields and introduces new formatting options.

• When configuring labels, you can now adjust how they are prioritized when they conflict with one another by reordering the label classes in the Label features pane. You can also disable deconfliction on a label class, allowing labels to be drawn if they conflict with others.

• When styling vector line and vector polygon fill symbols that have the offset effect property, you can now configure the offset distance, join method, and drawing performance.

• When styling lines and polygons that support gradient symbology, you can now customize the gradient stroke and gradient fill.

• When working with Types (unique symbols) data, you can select all values in the Other category and move these values into a new or existing group.

• When styling layers in Map Viewer, animate any vector symbol, including custom symbols and individual components of a symbol.

• The What's here? functionality now supports custom locators in addition to the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service if you have enabled them to allow reverse geocoding.

• When working with attachments, view related photos and files directly in the attribute table and maximize them for full-page viewing.

• Printing in Map Viewer now supports a dynamic legend, showing only the legend for features visible in the current map extent in the printed layout. You can also now choose your preferred scale bar unit, allowing you to include a reference scale that is more relevant to the map scale.

• Enable pop-ups on hosted tile layers without a backing feature layer by referencing a feature layer with relevant attributes.

• Use shared (group and preset) templates created in ArcGIS Pro when working with editing templates in Map Viewer. Shared templates can be configured for both hosted and ArcGIS Server feature layers.

• Enable time-based layer visibility to display a layer only for a specific time period.

• When working with attachments, view related photos and files directly in the attribute table and maximize them for full-page viewing.

• Choose iFrame when embedding maps using ready-to-use HTML code.

• Create a custom link to a map and configure how it will appear when opened using the link.

• Append the mapOnly=true URL parameter to share a link that opens Map Viewer with toolbars hidden.

• When configuring pop-ups, filter which attachments are displayed in the pop-up based on selected keywords and attachment type.

• Add and edit waypoints to dynamically adjust a route when getting directions and creating route layers.

• The oriented imagery viewer is updated with enhanced navigation, new search workflows, and improved performance across all imagery exploration tasks:

  • The oriented imagery viewer widget opens in the Map Viewer center panel, improving accessibility and resolving previous size‑constraint issues, resulting in a more consistent and optimized viewing experience.

  • The oriented imagery viewer interface has been redesigned to deliver a more streamlined and intuitive user experience.

  • Key tools with overlapping or related functionality are now grouped under consolidated parent toggles, reducing visual clutter and providing a cleaner, more organized layout.

  • A new Search tools group has been introduced to the widget, providing three options for accessing imagery from an oriented imagery layer:

    • Explore images—Performs a best‑image search based on the user‑selected map location.

    • Explore images 3D—Extends the explore images workflow by incorporating height‑based filtering using the features Z‑values.

    • Display images—Allows users to select an oriented imagery feature directly on the map or scene to view its associated image.

  • Image caching is now enabled for the oriented imagery viewer widget during directional and sequential navigation, improving overall viewer performance and reducing image load times.

  • The oriented imagery viewer widget now supports Time‑Info filtering when querying for images, enabling users to retrieve imagery based on temporal constraints for more precise and context‑aware results.

  • The oriented imagery viewer component and widget now support visualizing tiled image formats (COG and MRF) for 360 imagery, which load faster than traditional JPG images, resulting in improved overall performance.

3D GIS

• Visualize direction in imagery layers using flow and elevation.

• 3D models with georeferencing information such as IFCv4 files, are now placed automatically in the scene when uploaded.

• Run custom geoprocessing tools directly within Scene Viewer to enable more flexible, scenario-specific analysis workflows.

• Scene Viewer now supports Gaussian splat layers, which use dense visual data to create smooth and photo-like scenes. This 3D layer type is well suited for visualizing rich detail across infrastructure, vegetation, and urban environments.

• Use ArcGIS Arcade expressions for your layer visualizations.

• Browse and add layers from favorite ArcGIS Hub catalogs.

• Close all messages that might appear when loading a scene to focus on your task.

Analysis

The following new tools and enhancements are available for analysis tools:

• The Geomorphon Landforms raster analysis tool calculates the geomorphon pattern of each cell of an input surface raster and classifies them into common landform types.

• The Summarize Categorical Raster raster analysis tool generates a table containing the pixel count for each category in each slice of an input multidimensional categorical raster.

• The Enrich Layer tool now includes a Travel direction parameter when a travel mode is used to generate enrichment areas. Choosing the travel direction is important when generating travel areas because of road network restrictions like one-way streets.

The following new raster functions are now available:

• The Label Bad Bands raster function enables you to specify a set of bands using ranges or lists to be labeled as bad.

• The Subset Bands raster function enables you to extract a subset of bands using ranges or lists.

The following enhancements are now available for environment settings:

• The processing extent environment setting has been split into two separate settings: Analysis processing extent applies to feature analysis tools and Raster analysis processing extent applies to raster analysis tools and raster functions. You can turn off Use a different processing extent for raster analysis to apply the Analysis processing extent setting to all analysis.

  The default processing extent for raster analysis is now Display extent.

• Plan Routes and Calculate Travel Cost now support the Processing extent environment setting.

Data management

• Use a hosted feature layer or table to add rows to or update rows in another hosted feature layer or table.

• From the item page of a hosted feature layer, allow members of your organization with access to the layer to append data and add and manage shared templates.

• From the item page of a feature layer that participates in a utility network, you can manage which utility network operations are allowed.

• When exporting data from a hosted feature layer, hosted feature layer view, or hosted table to a .csv or Excel file, set the display name or the field name as the header for the fields in the exported file.

• Add geospatial PDFs as items and designate them for use in ArcGIS Field Maps.

• View collaboration details on the Overview tab of the group page if the group is linked to a distributed collaboration.

Retirement notices

Review each notice below and determine whether they impact your organization's workflows.

• ArcGIS Workforce, both the mobile and web applications, will be officially retired in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.2. Customers currently using ArcGIS Workforce or Workforce for ArcGIS must begin planning their transition to using the new Tasks capability in ArcGIS Field Maps to ensure continuity. Learn more in the ArcGIS Workforce deprecation notice.