Updates

Software updates are an important benefit of the maintenance program. If you participate in the ESRI Software Maintenance Program and your maintenance subscription is current at the time the software update is released, the software update will automatically be shipped at no additional cost for your existing products as a benefit of your maintenance subscription. This provides you and your organization with the latest software technology advances, any new functionality, and productivity and usability improvement tools as well as any fixes or patches to the software.

As part of the software updates that you receive, ESRI also includes any updates to ESRI Data & Maps, a dataset that is included at no additional cost with ArcGIS software. The data is useful for general-purpose basemaps and for more specific uses and provides a convenient starting point for your applications.