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- You can create custom pane sets to open a specific collection of application panes. See Pane sets in the Highlights section.
- Toast notifications remain on screen if your computer is idle. You can set your user interface options to play a sound when a toast notification appears.
Analysis and geoprocessing
General
- Geoprocessing tools have a button to set the output data workspace to memory. See Memory Workspace button on geoprocessing tools in the Highlights section.
- Many geoprocessing tools provide overwrite options when the specified output dataset already exists.
- A warning dialog box appears when you open a custom Python toolbox. System administrators who manage application settings can use the
BlockNonSystemPythonToolbox setting to
remove this warning.
Click Yes to run the toolbox code and load the list of tools and toolbox properties.
Charts
- You can customize the size and shape of point markers for scatter plots, line charts, and combo charts on the Series tab of the Chart Properties pane.
- Two new guide types are available on the Guides tab of the Chart Properties pane. Data-driven guides allow you to define line guides based on field statistics. Polyline guides allow you define guides based on a custom list of x,y coordinates that will be drawn as vertices in a line.
- You can explore the significance of bivariate relationships by displaying p-value indicators in scatter plots and scatter plot matrixes.
- Multiseries grid scatter plots can display Pearson's r or r-squared values. The mini charts can also be sorted according to these statistics.
- When an input layer has a spatial clause on a definition query, charts honor the spatial clause.
ModelBuilder
- When a model is run, a progress window shows a status bar with different colors and symbols based on the outcome. Details are provided on the
Information, Warning, and Error tabs.
- Semantic search is supported in ModelBuilder.
- Tool suggestions help you build and optimize a model by recommending tools to add to the analysis workflow. You can access tool suggestions using the Suggest Tool button
on the ModelBuilder ribbon tab or the Suggest Next Tools context menu option on a tool output node.
Raster functions
New raster functions:
- Label Bad Bands—Specifies a set of bands using ranges or lists to be labeled as bad.
- Mosaic Rasters By Band Indices—Mosaics overlapping pixels of a collection of images based on criteria defined by their band indices.
- Subset Bands—Extracts a subset of bands using ranges or lists.
Geoprocessing tools
Data Management toolbox
Attribute Rules toolset
New tools:
- Generate Update Related Attribute Rule—Generates an attribute rule that updates related records in other classes when updates are made to an input table.
Fields toolset
New tools:
- Migrate Text Field—Migrates eligible text fields in an Oracle table from Unicode to non-Unicode types.
Enhanced tools:
- Calculate Field—Several enhancements were made to parameters and expression support. See Calculate Field geoprocessing tool in the Highlights section.
- Convert Time Zone—Runtime performance is improved for large datasets.
General toolset
New tools:
- Create AI Service Connection File—Creates a connection file for hosted AI services in ArcGIS AllSource.
- Disable Last Edit Time—Disables the last edit time property on an enterprise geodatabase dataset.
- Enable Last Edit Time—Enables the last edit time property on an enterprise geodatabase dataset.
Enhanced tools:
- Append—The Optimize performance for feature services parameter improves performance when the target dataset is a supported feature service. When this parameter is used, the following conditions apply:
- Feature service Global IDs are preserved when using the Matching Fields for Update parameter.
- Branch-versioned feature services are supported.
- Delete Identical—The Output Duplicate IDs Mapping Table parameter generates an output table with a list of the duplicate records and the representative record that remains after the duplicates are deleted.
- Upload File To Portal—Supports uploading presentation files (.prsx) to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 or later.
Indexes toolset
New tools:
- Add Full-Text Index—Adds a full-text index on specified text fields to support searching by an individual column or by multiple columns.
LAS Dataset toolset
New tools:
- Project LAS—Projects .las or .zlas files from one coordinate system to another.
Projections and Transformations toolset
Enhanced tools:
- Create Custom Geographic Transformation—You can use the Browse button
to specify the transformation file name. - Create Custom Vertical Transformation—The Vertical Transformation Method parameter includes two new interpolation types: Bicubic Natural Spline 4x4 and Bicubic Natural Spline 6x6.
Raster toolset
Enhanced tools:
- Copy Raster—Supports the AVIG, JPEGXL, and WEBP formats.
- Interpolate From Point Cloud—Supports LAS datasets.
Reports toolset
New tools:
- Export Report To Excel—Exports an ArcGIS AllSource report or a report file to a Microsoft Excel file (.xlsx).
Table toolset
Enhanced tools:
- Transpose Fields—The Fields To Transpose parameter supports Date Only, Time Only, Date (high precision), and Timestamp Offset field types.
Versions toolset
New tools:
- Prune Branch History—Deletes retired archive records from branch-versioned datasets.
Server toolbox
Enhanced tools
- Export Map Server Cache—The Ready To Serve Format parameter generates cache content using the open tile package specification.
- Import Map Server Cache—A cache raster dataset in ready-to-serve format can be imported.
- Upload Service Definition—The Output Item IDs parameter allows you to specify item IDs of the output web layers staged in the input service definition.
Spatial Analyst toolbox
- A new help topic provides more information about how the Geomorphon Landforms tool works.
New tools
- Multiscale Surface Deviation—Calculates the maximum deviation from the mean value across a range of spatial scales.
Enhanced tools
- Create Accuracy Assessment Points—The Minimum Point Distance parameter sets the minimum distance between the reference points.
- Distance Accumulation and Distance Allocation—Performance was improved when using the Vertical Factor Raster or Horizontal Factor Raster parameters.
- Zonal Statistics and Zonal Statistics as Table—The cell size of the value raster is applied to a raster zone input by default, matching the behavior for feature zone input in an earlier release. This update makes the analysis more accurate because the value raster is the primary raster that influences the output results.
Tip:
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.
Spatial Statistics toolbox
New tools
- Estimate Time to Event—Predicts the time until an event occurs based on the prior times to the event. Explanatory variables can be used to improve the predictions and determine which variables increase or decrease time until the event. See Estimate Time to Event in the Highlights section.
- Spatial Autoregression—Estimates a spatial regression model that accounts for spatial autocorrelation in the data values. Accounting for autocorrelation allows the tool to make unbiased estimates when other prediction models would be biased by the spatial clustering of the data values.
Enhanced tools
- Assess Sensitivity to Attribute Uncertainty—Analysis results created by the Calculate Composite Index tool can be assessed for sensitivity.
- All tools in the Spatial Component Utilities (Moran Eigenvectors) toolset include Input Spatial Weights Matrix Files and Compare Only Input Spatial Weight Matrices parameters. Together, they allow you to provide custom neighborhood configurations that can be included alone or in addition to a set of curated configurations.
Editing
Military Overlay
- Military Overlay now supports standards MIL-STD-2025D Change 1, MIL-STD-2025C, APP-6(E), and APP-6(D).
- Several user interface changes were made to ease the process of adding features with a different standard than the default.
Imagery and remote sensing
General
- The raster Classify renderer has been enhanced with the following features:
- You can set a critical break to emphasize an important class break value.
- You can update values without labels being reset.
- You can set a color scheme for a selected portion of the class breaks.
- In the RGB renderer, you can set the Saturation and Sharpness values of a raster layer.
- In the Stretch renderer, you can set the Sharpness value of a raster layer.
Oriented imagery
- You can perform geodesic measurements in the Oriented Imagery Viewer window.
- You can visualize feature layers as overlays in the Oriented Imagery Viewer window.
Mapping and visualization
General
- Feature layer definition queries support spatial filtering. See Spatial clauses in definition queries in the Highlights section.
- Line and polygon feature layers support application-driven feature binning.
- Animated flashing effects can be disabled.
- The Go to XY tool is supported in unknown coordinate systems.
- System administrators who manage application settings can permit and lock options for MapTip functionality and enforce the map scale steps used while zooming.
- System administrators who manage application settings can set and lock transition time and panning gestures navigational settings.
- System administrators who manage application settings can set and lock if a project saves its current selection upon closing.
- Create query layers from tables in SQLite databases or Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoPackage files that are in a project.
- When writing SQL queries, the autocomplete capability can be disabled.
3D scenes and scene layers
- Cloud weather effects are rendered in the scene rather than the background. Fly through the clouds and experience realistic effects. Use the cloud movement, base heights, and direction properties to control effects in more detail.
- Use weather effects in local scenes.
- You can add the Google Photorealistic 3D tiles dataset with an API key to a global or local scene.
- Integrated mesh 3D tile layers support modification.
- 3D tile layers support the KHR_texture_basisu extension.
- You can disable shadows for individual 3D layers when shadows are enabled in a scene.
Exploratory analysis tools
- You can determine the steepest path from a location as a line feature. Adjust the Maximum Rise value to overcome small elevation increases along the path.
- If the Query capability is enabled, map image sublayer features can be selected and highlighted in maps and scenes.
Layouts
- Dual scale bars show two map units simultaneously. See Dual scale bars in the Highlights section.
- You can turn off the headings for table frames.
- You can add dynamic text for layer metadata to a layout.
- Page Up, Page Down, Page Left, and Page Right navigation buttons are now available.
- Map image sublayers are now supported as input layers in table frames and dynamic text.
Pop-ups
- A pop-up configuration can be shared as a .pop file.
- The Related Records element type displays the attributes of up to 10 related records of a feature.
- Pop-ups can be opened from a non-OID table.
- Image elements fill all available space in a pop-up configuration.
- Drag the column divider of a Field element to change how much space each side displays. As the column divider is moved, words wrap to the next line as needed.
- The blue display label at the top of the attribute portion of a pop-up can be hidden.
- Feature coordinates displayed at the bottom of a pop-up can be turned off.
- Currently identified features flash when a layer is selected in the pop-up results tree.
- Press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C on your keyboard when in the results tree to select and copy identified features in a single layer.
- When a layer has a feature drawing order set, items in the results tree are listed in that order by default.
Presentations
- Use presenter mode to use one monitor for the speaker's view and another for the audience view.
- Use a tiled view of the presenter mode to see thumbnails of the pages and change pages without interrupting the presentation.
- Use fly transition to present consecutive map pages that are sourced from the same map.
- Preload all maps before presenting in full screen to ensure the maps are loaded ahead of time to improve performance.
Reports
- Reports can be exported to Excel.
- Features in a map can be filtered by a field in the report.
Styles
- When saving items to a style, unique value symbols are named after their symbol class value rather than the layer name.
- Eight new double scale bar style items have been added to the ArcGIS 2D system style to support dual scale bars in layouts.
Symbols
- Materials have improved support when importing COLLADA (.dae) or Wavefront (.obj) files as 3D model marker symbols.
- 3D model files with the .fbx, .dwg, .ifc, .usdc, and .usdz extensions can be imported as 3D model marker symbols.
- Color scheme style items can be included with published 2D web styles.
- KML layers symbolized with images from URL paths have improved performance.
Production
Clearing Grids
- Clearing Grids supports the following capabilities:
- Customize the appearance of grid lines and grid labels.
- Assign designations to a group of features at once.
- Insert features into an existing sequence.
- Delete features from an existing sequence.
Projects
General
- OAuth-based authentication connections can be configured with Google.
Metadata
- You can now edit metadata using either the ArcGIS AllSource classic metadata editor or the ArcGIS metadata editor used in ArcGIS Online. See ArcGIS metadata editor in the Highlights section.
Python
ArcPy
- For a Parameter object, you can set filters for composite parameters (parameters with multiple data types).
- The Result object supports the getCharts method to access any charts a geoprocessing tool creates.
- The RefreshLayer function supports layer names that include paths and group layers.
- Improvements were made to type hints in several ArcPy functions, including RefreshLayer and PauseDrawing. Type hints provide an improved code authoring experience in modern integrated development environments (IDEs).
- The Describe function returns controlMemberships properties. These properties are available when the table or feature class participates in a controller dataset such as a geodatabase topology, network dataset, or trace network.
Data access module
- You can use the CreateParquetCache ArcPy function to create a local cache for a large Apache Parquet file before adding the data to a map or scene for the first time. A large file may contain more than 500,000 records, for example, or hundreds of columns.