What's new

Maps

• You can now use the Arcade assistant (beta) to generate ArcGIS Arcade expressions from instructions typed in natural language when styling layers, configuring pop-ups, and configuring labels in Map Viewer.
• While creating or editing a map that you own, you can now share a link to a map at its current extent that will open in Map Viewer.
• When editing features, you can now 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.
• You can now drag and drop files directly to the map when adding files to Map Viewer.
• Map Viewer now supports saving map image layers, allowing you to save layer property configurations to the map image layer item.
• When applying a variety of smart mapping styles, you can now generate the style range based on the whole layer or based on the current map extent. This determines what data will be used to generate the visual range for a given style.
• You can now create curved line sketch features, allowing you to add curved arrows or paths to your map.
• When styling layers based on a numeric field, the new spike smart mapping theme allows you to show values proportionally represented by the height of a spike symbol.
• If you have sequential data where each field represents a separate time, you can now configure time series animation using a suggested ArcGIS Arcade expression to show a progression of events over time.
• When embedding a public map using ready-to-use HTML code, you can now 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 itself.
• When working with an indoor positioning data service (IPS) in Map Viewer, you can now enable smoothing, enable GNSS, enable Apple IPS, and enable path snapping with a distance tolerance threshold.
• When creating route layers, turn-by-turn directions for multi-stop routes now include a travel time estimate for each stop along the route.
• Charts now support the following data types: timestamp offset, date only, and big integer.
• You can now reorder charts in the Charts pane.
• The Export button is now available on a chart toolbar and can be used to export the chart as an image or a table. Learn more about interacting with charts
• When styling an imagery layer, processing template, or variable, you can now register your changes as a preset style, which allows you to switch between different layer visualizations without reverting to default styling.

Scenes

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

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

App configuration

• ArcGIS Dashboards includes several updates. Dashboard authors can now customize the font, font size, and color for header text, as well as the header's foreground color. These settings apply to dashboard areas such as elements, sidebar, splash screen and information windows. In addition, there are new field types available. These are the date only field for storing dates (day, month, year), time only field for storing time values, and timestamp offset field for storing date and time values with UTC offset information. For more information, see What's new in ArcGIS Dashboards.
• ArcGIS Experience Builder adds support for Arcade expressions. You can use Arcade to add data sources and display dynamic content and styles. The Edit widget supports batch attribute editing, allowing you to perform bulk updates to data. Four new widgets are available in Experience Builder. Three of those widgets—Document Explorer, Document Viewer, and Link Explorer—add ArcGIS GeoBIM capabilities to Experience Builder. The new Display Order widget defines the rules for mosaicking and displaying overlapping images from an image layer. Other enhancements include the ability to export data to more file types including shapefiles, geodatabases, and .kml files and support for saving the app state. For more information, see What's new in Experience Builder.
• ArcGIS Instant Apps includes several updates. The translation assistant (preview) has been moved out of beta and into preview. Support has been added for bulk attribute editing in Manager and Sidebar. Basic and Media Map have merged all functionality, including swipe and sketch tools, into a single app called Basic (Media Map). For more information, see What's new in Instant Apps.

Content management

• The item pages are improved at this release to match the style used in most other parts of the ArcGIS Online website. Long menus or sections on the Overview tab that required scrolling are now grouped inside collapsible sections. Click the down arrow to expand them.
• 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 (CSV) file that includes the label and code to use.
• The style of the Raster Function Editor is updated to provide a consistent experience across the website.
• Key-pair authentication is supported for data store items that connect to Snowflake. It is recommended that you use this authentication method when you create a data store item that connects to Snowflake, because Snowflake has deprecated support of single sign-on authentication methods.
• Beta support is available for creating a data store item that connects to Databricks.
• A new metadata style is supported—Dublin Core+. 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.
• You can update features in a hosted feature layer to include new attachments from a source file geodatabase.
• See the ArcGIS Arcade release notes for information about new and improved functionality in the latest Arcade releases.

Notebooks

• New versions of ArcGIS API for Python, ArcPy, and Python libraries are now available in the notebook runtimes.
• Workflows in the notebook editor have been simplified and the Advanced settings have been reorganized.

Spatial analysis

• ModelBuilder is now available in general release.
• Filter by Attributes is a new ModelBuilder-only tool that creates an output data variable of features that meet attribute criteria.
• Model elements can now be opened while the model is in view-only mode. For example, you can open the tool dialog box for a tool element to see the parameter settings.
• Input data variables in models can now be updated to reference a different hosted feature layer or table.
• 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 Distance Accumulation and Distance Allocation tools and raster functions have improved performance when using the Vertical factor and Horizontal factor parameters.
• 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. The 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, a raster dataset, or the Maximum of inputs or Minimum of inputs options.
• 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 Maximum of inputs or another setting as the default continue to do so.
• You can now perform raster analysis more efficiently on select ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World imagery layers. Sentinel-2 10m Land Use / Land Cover Time Series imagery layers are now supported. Landsat Level-2, Sentinel-1 RTC, Sentinel-2 Level-2A, and NAIP were supported in a previous release. For more information, see Understand imagery layer settings for analysis.
• 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.

Accounts and administration

• You can now create custom sign-in experiences for the organization and custom categories for registered apps, helping you better organize and control the sign-in options for app users and organization members.
• Members with ArcGIS logins can now personally reset their multifactor authentication if they are in an organization that has enforced multifactor authentication. To reset multifactor authentication, members must sign in using their current credentials and second-step verification.