{"id":1809662,"date":"2023-01-12T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1809662"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:44:20","slug":"whats-new-in-arcgis-api-for-python-2-1-0","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/api-python\/developers\/whats-new-in-arcgis-api-for-python-2-1-0","title":{"rendered":"What’s New in ArcGIS API for Python 2.1.0"},"author":290632,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[738191],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[36841],"class_list":["post-1809662","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers","product-api-python"],"acf":{"short_description":"The ArcGIS API for Python will have a minor release to version 2.1.0 on January 9, 2023 with a focus on bug fixes and enhancements.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The ArcGIS API for Python will have a m<\/span>ino<\/span>r release to version 2.<\/span>1.0<\/span> on <\/span>January<\/span> 9,<\/span> 202<\/span>3<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>A primary focus of this release will be bug fixes and enhancements, but we\u2019ve also added several new pieces of functionality.\u00a0 These include support for new data types and services, support for additional ArcGIS products, more secure authentication options, and an improved user experience when working with the map widget. Here are some other highlights organized into common workflows and major themes.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Core API<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To ensure a<\/span> secure login experience for our users, we\u2019ve continued to <\/span>develop <\/span>the API\u2019s authentication schemes.\u00a0 For example, we\u2019ve <\/span>added<\/span> bug fixes to improve the Windows authentication process and provide <\/span>a <\/span>more seamless integration between Windows OS and web GIS.\u00a0 <\/span>There were also <\/span>overall improvements <\/span>made <\/span>to <\/span>how<\/span> the API <\/span>authenticates<\/span> and access<\/span>es<\/span> services.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Administration<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Web GIS administrators are always looking for new ways to automate their workflows and make their lives easier, and several new capabilities have been introduced to help them do so.\u00a0 For example, we\u2019ve completely revamped the UX class to enable greater flexibility when editing organizational settings.\u00a0 In other words, you can now programmatically edit nearly all of your web GIS organizational settings as you can through the UI.\u00a0 This includes things like setting the banner, changing the language, setting administration contacts, setting logos, and much more!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With respect to automation, the API is now fully aligned with all the capabilities of ArcGIS Online feature service webhooks via a new enumeration called \u201cWebhookEvents\u201d.\u00a0 This allows users to receive direct communication when events occur at the service-level.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Content Management<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Content management\u2014publishing, updating, overwriting, moving, and copying maps, layers, and other web GIS items\u2014is a primary task for many ArcGIS API for Python users.\u00a0 As such, we\u2019ve made several improvements and bug fixes to the ContentManager class, particularly focusing on increasing performance when cloning content via the <\/span>clone_items()<\/span><\/i> function.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, we continue to make it a priority to support the entire ArcGIS product suite as it expands with new apps, services, and data types.\u00a0 For example, in the 2.1.0 release, a new class was added to support ArcGIS Marketplace, allowing users to list and unlist Marketplace items and manage marketplace settings and properties for their organization.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also refactored and enhanced several arcgis.apps including Hub, Survey123, StoryMap.\u00a0 One such example is the ability to now work with map tours in the StoryMap module.\u00a0 Additionally, we have increased functionality to work with different services (e.g., Parcel Fabric, Utility Network, Knowledge Graph), allowing more options for automation via the ArcGIS API for Python.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Analysis and Data Science<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Spatially Enabled DataFrame (SeDF)<\/a> makes it easy for our users to get their ArcGIS data (feature layers, geodatabase feature classes, GeoJSON, shapefiles, etc.) into <\/span>pandas<\/span><\/a> DataFrames, a massively popular format for data science and analysis within Python.\u00a0 In this release, we have made several quality-of-life improvements to the SeDF, such as adding the ability to overwrite when publishing a feature layer from a SeDF, as well as the ability to publish a standalone table from a SeDF.\u00a0 These new options will be helpful in workflows where new data is consistently collected, pandas is used to manipulate and wrangle it, and the new cleaned data is subsequently used to update content in the web GIS.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also <\/span>listened to your feedback<\/span><\/a> for improving the SeDF by adding the ability to enable z- and m-coordinates on the from_xy()<\/em> method within the GeoAccessor class.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As our users\u2019 datasets continue to grow in volume, velocity, and variety, we want to make sure the API can work with the latest and greatest in big data formats.\u00a0 As such, we\u2019ve made it easier to convert between SeDF and data formats such <\/span>Parquet<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Arrow<\/span><\/a>, and added support for <\/span>Dask<\/span><\/a> DataFrames, which parallelize DataFrame operations and enable more \u201cbig data\u201d workflows.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1813302,"id":1813302,"title":"logos","filename":"logos.png","filesize":39122,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/api-python\/developers\/whats-new-in-arcgis-api-for-python-2-1-0\/logos-2","alt":"","author":"290632","description":"","caption":"","name":"logos-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1809662,"date":"2023-01-10 15:06:38","modified":"2023-01-10 15:06:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":750,"height":284,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":176,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","medium_large-width":750,"medium_large-height":284,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","large-width":750,"large-height":284,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","1536x1536-width":750,"1536x1536-height":284,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","2048x2048-width":750,"2048x2048-height":284,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","card_image-width":750,"card_image-height":284,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/01\/logos.png","wide_image-width":750,"wide_image-height":284}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Lastly, we have continued to innovate in the areas of deep learning and machine learning in the arcgis.learn<\/a> module.\u00a0 While the full list of new capabilities<\/a> is far too long to include here, here are a few quick highlights:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n