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What's new

The November 2026 update includes time enhancements in Map Viewer, new ways to explore oriented imagery, content management enhancements, and new functionality throughout the ArcGIS Online website. Highlights are provided below. For more information, see the What's new in ArcGIS Online blog article.

Maps

  • In Map Viewer, you can now enable time on feature layers containing a time or date field, regardless of whether or not you own the layer. Additionally, time series authoring now supports multiple calculation methods for change and percent change, eliminating the need for extra fields and data preparation.

  • You can now use a handle to adjust the height of the center panel in Map Viewer, allowing you to control the amount of space allocated to either the map view or to the table.

  • When customizing how labels are styled, you can now use text formatting tags in an ArcGIS Arcade expression to modify the formatting for a portion of text in a single label class.

  • Map Viewer now includes over 2,500 unique, ready-to-use symbols in the Esri default symbol galleries for points, lines, and polygons. Additionally, if you specified a custom web styles gallery group, you can now share the Esri default web styles to this group.

  • When styling layers, you can now configure the color and size of the halo effect on point symbols. You can also configure animation along a line on any vector marker line symbol layer.

  • When styling categories, you can now filter and search for specific values by keyword when there are more than 10 categories in a group.

  • You can now style clusters separately from the nonaggregated style configured for the layer using smart mapping style options.

  • You can now save, set a refresh interval, configure charts, and configure a time series on Parquet feature layers (beta) when working with them in Map Viewer.

  • When configuring attachments in pop-ups, the new Carousel layout option lets you click through images one at a time.

  • When creating sketch layers, you can now draw a multipoint feature. A multipoint is made up of two or more points and symbolizes a group of related locations as a single feature.

  • When configuring forms and editing table values in Map Viewer, you can now use dynamic choice form elements.

  • When working in Map Viewer, you can now use keyboard shortcuts to open and resize a focus region. A focus region is a bounding area that allows you to explore data on the map and open pop-ups for features using a keyboard.

  • When exploring 3D images in the oriented imagery viewer, you can now add a frustum filter, enabling you to use camera frustums instead of 2D footprint polygons when searching for images.

  • You can now use depth images in oriented imagery layers, providing more accurate depth-aware calculations and visualizations.

  • Enhanced 360 image rendering in the oriented imagery viewer improves image brightness and provides a more accurate viewing experience.

Scenes

For more information about what's new in 3D, see the What's new in Scene Viewer blog article.

Sharing and collaboration

App configuration

  • ArcGIS Experience Builder introduces AI Chat (beta), a runtime agent that uses natural-language instructions to perform multi-step tasks within your apps. AI Chat (beta) can be enabled in general settings. At run time, it can answer questions about an app's capabilities and purpose, operate supported widgets, locate addresses and places, summarize data, apply attribute and spatial filters, interact with the app interface, and more. Other enhancements include an improved system for designing app layouts for small-screen devices, the ability to discard draft changes and unpublish published apps, and support for vertical alignment, subscript and superscript formatting, and halo styling in the Text widget. For more information, see What's new in Experience Builder.

  • ArcGIS Instant Apps includes several updates. Indicator is a new app template that enables users to explore and visualize large indicator datasets dynamically. App authors now have more ways to customize their apps, including a configuration option to add a link menu to an app's header and an option to customize the app's favicon. For more information, see What's new in Instant Apps.

  • ArcGIS Dashboards includes several updates. Dashboard authors can now use histograms to explore data distributions with customizable bins and overlays. Calendar heat charts are available to help reveal daily, weekly, and seasonal patterns in temporal data. In addition, the ArcGIS Arcade Assistant (beta) helps users quickly generate custom Arcade expressions for data expressions and advanced formatting in dashboards. For more information, see What's new in ArcGIS Dashboards.

Content management

  • The item details assistant is in general release.

  • Support is added for a new metadata style—ISO 19115-3 version 2 with ISO 19110.

  • To prevent you from breaking items that reference or use your item, a list of affected items is presented to you when you delete a single item. You then have the option to change your item's status to deprecated rather than delete it. You can also view the details of the affected items to which you have access to discover the item owner so you can notify them about your item's deletion.

  • When you create an empty 3D object layer, you can define the XY and Z coordinate systems.

  • You can import domain values from a .csv file to edit an existing domain list.

  • Similarly, you can import contingent value combinations from a .csv file to an existing field group on a hosted feature layer or hosted table.

  • A new bulk edit operation is available for hosted feature layers and tables that deletes all existing features before adding new features from a source file.

  • Additional Global Positioning System (GPS) metadata fields for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers and laser rangefinders can be added when you define your own hosted feature layer or publish a hosted feature layer from a template or another hosted feature layer.

  • You can enable GPS metadata for existing hosted feature layers or hosted tables, and add fields to collect data from GNSS receivers and laser rangefinders.

  • The process of rebuilding spatial indexes is improved—ArcGIS Online checks the state of the spatial index for each layer to determine whether it should be rebuilt. You can rebuild the indexes for the layers that require it. If you need to stop the rebuilding process, you can cancel it for individual layers.

  • For hosted feature layers, views, and tables that have exporting enabled, users can export data to a Parquet collection, which is a .zip file that contains a .parquet file for each layer in the hosted feature layer.

  • See the ArcGIS Arcade release notes for information about new and improved functionality in the latest Arcade releases.

Notebooks

Analysis

The following enhancements are now available for ModelBuilder:

  • Environment settings are now available for analysis models.

  • The following variables are now available for analysis models: field calculation, SQL expression, and complex variable.

    Learn more about variables

  • Analysis models can now be opened in a web map from the item page.

The following beta features are now available in ModelBuilder:

  • A subset of raster analysis tools are now available in ModelBuilder.

  • Two analysis session types are now available: standard and raster optimized. Both session types support feature and raster tools. Raster optimized sessions use parallel processing to support larger raster analysis workflows and are currently in beta.

  • Imagery layers and tiled imagery layers are now supported as inputs for analysis models.

  • Additional raster analysis environments are supported for raster tools in ModelBuilder.

The following enhancement is now available for custom web tools:

  • A Validate button is now available for custom web tools created from geoprocessing services. For more information, see Use custom web tools.

The following enhancements are now available for charts:

  • Charts can now be created using Parquet feature layers. For a full list of supported data, see Configure charts.

  • Scatterplots created with raster data now support defining an area of interest to specify which pixels are displayed on the chart.

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