What's Retiring in December 2026?

Esri offers a rich collection of online layers, maps, and apps to support your work.  We’re continually investing in our collection to help you get the most value from ArcGIS.  To ensure we offer the best available resources, we regularly introduce new content, enhance existing resources, and transition older content as improved alternatives become available.

As part of our commitment to always providing high-quality, performant, and relevant resources, we’re announcing the retirement of select legacy content in December 2026. This retirement date is important as select layers, maps, apps, and services, which have been in mature support for at least one year, will no longer be available to use after December 31, 2026.

Retiring Items

Many of the items scheduled for retirement have been in mature support for over two years, and many have recommended replacements in their descriptions to help guide your transition. We recommend updating your maps and apps to discontinue use of the retiring item before our retirement date. Use the replacement item, when a replacement is available. Check out the complete December 2026 retirement list with more than 1000 items listed.

How do I identify Retiring items?

Did you know that you can tell if an Esri item is retiring through our item details? We’ve categorized our items to identify whether an item is in Beta, General Availability, Mature Support, or Retiring. An item in one of our Esri organizations will reflect its current Life Cycle status through its Categories. Items scheduled to retire will display a Retiring category.

Retiring items also have a Retirement Notice in the item Description to help provide more information, replacement items – if available, and timeline for retirement.

Learn more about retiring content and Esri’s broader content management approach in Introducing Esri’s Content Life Cycle, published earlier this year.

Note for ArcGIS Enterprise Users

If you are using ArcGIS Enterprise 12.2 or earlier, you may see these layers, maps, or apps in searches throughout your Enterprise portal. However, please note that once retired in ArcGIS Online, the underlying content will be inaccessible, and the item will be broken. Therefore, be sure to replace these deprecated items with their newer replacements before their retirement date.

Thank you for your participation in Living Atlas!

In the past year, Esri has published hundreds of layers, maps, apps, and other content in ArcGIS Living Atlas. This work will continue through 2027 and beyond.

As new content is published and earlier versions are replaced, we will periodically move Esri’s items into mature support and schedule them for retirement at a later date. It is important to occasionally check your layers, maps and apps to make sure they are using the latest versions of items that are in general availability and update them if needed.

For more information, check out the Esri Product Life Cycle Support Policy.

Thank you for being part of our community. We look forward to continuing to provide the trusted content and resources you need.

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