What's new

The February 2026 update includes advanced symbol animation, calendar heat charts, ModelBuilder enhancements, and new functionality throughout the ArcGIS Online website. Highlights are provided below. For more information, see the What's new in ArcGIS Online blog article.

Maps

• Map Viewer Classic is now retired. All existing Map Viewer Classic links, including URL parameters, will now automatically redirect to open in Map Viewer. For more information, see the Map Viewer Classic Retirement article.
• When styling layers in Map Viewer, you can now animate any vector symbol, including custom symbols and individual components of a symbol. You can also now add the offset effect property to any vector line or vector polygon symbol without first enabling the property on the symbol in ArcGIS Pro.
• You can now enable time-based layer visibility to display a layer only for a specific time period.
• You can now create and edit true curves using drawing tools in Map Viewer. Additionally, you can now switch between drawing tools when creating and editing features.
• You can now author Arcade expressions when configuring pop-ups for hosted imagery layers.
• When working with editing templates in Map Viewer, you can now use shared (group and preset) editing templates that were created in ArcGIS Pro.
• The What's here? functionality now supports custom locators in addition to the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service if you have enabled them to allow reverse geocoding.
• You can now append the mapOnly=true URL parameter to share a link that opens Map Viewer with toolbars hidden.
• You can now access the Visualization tab on the item page for dynamic map image layer items, allowing you to make changes to the default properties of the item without opening it in Map Viewer.
• Printing in Map Viewer now supports a dynamic legend, showing only the legend for features visible in the current map extent in the printed layout. You can also now choose your preferred scale bar unit, allowing you to include a reference scale that is more relevant to the map scale.
• You can now add and edit waypoints to dynamically adjust a route when getting directions and creating route layers.
• When embedding a map and creating a custom link to a map, you can now include a basemap gallery as a map element. You can also now view the map time zone.
• Field value formatting when configuring cluster fields and configuring bin fields has been updated to better align with internationalization standards, which offers improved locale support for date and number fields and introduces new formatting options.
• When working with attachments, you can now view related photos directly in the attribute table and maximize them for full-page viewing.
• The oriented imagery viewer now opens in the center of the Map Viewer window, improving accessibility and providing a more consistent viewing experience.
• When working with oriented imagery, the new Search tools capability allows you to perform different types of image searches within the map, including Explore Images, Explore Images 3D, and Display Images.
• Image caching is now enabled during directional and sequential navigation, reducing load times and improving overall viewer performance.
• You can now filter by time-based characteristics when searching for images with the oriented imagery viewer.
• Calendar heat charts are now available to visualize patterns in temporal data by aggregating incidents into a calendar grid.

Scenes

• Explore the Google Photorealistic 3D Basemaps (beta) and stream over 2,500 3D cities in forty-nine countries directly into Scene Viewer.
• Scene Viewer now supports Gaussian splat layers, which use dense visual data to create smooth and photo-like scenes. This 3D layer type is well suited for visualizing rich detail across infrastructure, vegetation, and urban environments.
• Use ArcGIS Arcade expressions for your layer visualizations.
• Browse and add layers from favorite ArcGIS Hub catalogs.

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

App configuration

• Two new widgets are available in ArcGIS Experience Builder. The Date Filter widget allows you to filter features by choosing a specific date or date range with a calendar tool. The Theme Mode Switcher widget toggles the app theme between light mode and dark mode. Other enhancements include support for copying and pasting features with the Edit widget, support for exporting drawings created with the Draw widget, and support for generating ArcGIS Arcade expressions with the Arcade assistant (beta). For more information, see What's new in Experience Builder.
• ArcGIS Instant Apps includes two new templates and several enhancements. The Web Editor template is out of beta and now includes true curve editing. Gallery is also out of beta and now includes the ability to enable a cover page or an introduction window. For more information, see What's new in Instant Apps.

Content management

• You can use a hosted feature layer or table to add rows to or update rows in another hosted feature layer or table.
• The Item details assistant is available to provide suggestions for item information and field information.
• When you create an empty 3D object layer from the Content page, you can define what fields are present.
• The layers used in a web map or web scene are listed on the map or scene item page. Consumers of the map or scene can use this information to identify if the map or scene contains the data they want to view. Owners of the map or scene can use this information to determine if a layer they're using is deprecated so they can replace it.
• You can add a geospatial PDF as an item, and designate it for use in ArcGIS Field Maps.
• If you set a replacement for retired ArcGIS Configurable Apps or Classic Esri Story Maps, websites that consume them will be redirected to the replacement item automatically.
• You can add an Esri Spectral Library (.esl) file as an item and share it to allow other users to download it for use in hyperspectral imagery analysis in other clients.
• Two new raster types are supported when you create a hosted imagery layer: AVIRIS and EMIT.
• See the ArcGIS Arcade release notes for information about new and improved functionality in the latest Arcade releases.

Notebooks

• The Notebooks assistant (beta) is now available to help write, explain, and troubleshoot Python code.
• New versions of ArcGIS API for Python, ArcPy, and Python libraries are now available in the notebook runtimes.

Spatial analysis

• The following new tools and enhancements are available for analysis tools:
  • The Geomorphon Landforms raster analysis tool calculates the geomorphon pattern of each cell of an input surface raster and classifies them into common landform types.
  • The Summarize Categorical Raster raster analysis tool generates a table containing the pixel count for each category in each slice of an input multidimensional categorical raster.
  • The Enrich Layer tool now includes a Travel direction parameter when a travel mode is used to generate enrichment areas. Choosing the travel direction is important when generating travel areas because of road network restrictions like one-way streets.
  • The Enable accelerated analysis environment setting is now available in beta for the Classify Pixels Using Deep Learning and Detect Objects Using Deep Learning raster analysis tools. This setting enables high-speed and adaptive processing by assigning computation resources based on the type of analysis and the size of the job.
  • Plan Routes and Calculate Travel Cost now support the Processing extent environment setting.
• The following new raster functions are now available:
  • The Label Bad Bands raster function enables you to specify a set of bands using ranges or lists to be labeled as bad.
  • The Subset Bands raster function enables you to extract a subset of bands using ranges or lists.
• The following enhancements are available for ModelBuilder:
  • Analysis models can now be published to create custom web tools.
  • Plan Routes is now supported in ModelBuilder as a premium tool.
  • Analysis models now support the following value variables: areal unit, Boolean, time unit, and enrichment variables. Variables are inputs to an analysis tool that hold a value or reference to data and can make iterating on tool parameters faster. Variables are also essential for configuring an analysis model to be published as a custom web tool.

Accounts and administration

• Certificates used for SAML logins are now managed directly by organization administrators. This update is now available in beta and allows administrators to create longer‑lived SAML certificates that are unique to their organization.
• Organization administrators and members with a custom role with the privilege to view subscription status reports can use the newly designed dashboard (beta) to view and track credit consumption across your organization.