What's new

The October 2025 update includes enhancements to ModelBuilder, access to notebook templates, 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

• When sharing a map, you can now create a custom link to a map and configure how it will appear when opened using the link.
• You can now use the Arcade assistant (beta) to generate ArcGIS Arcade expressions when calculating field values in Map Viewer.
• When configuring labels, you can now adjust how they are prioritized when they conflict with one another by reordering the label classes in the Label features pane. You can also disable deconfliction on a label class, allowing labels to be drawn if they conflict with others.
• When updating feature geometry in Map Viewer, you can now split and merge features. Additionally, new selection tools allow you to choose between replacing, adding to, or removing a selected feature.
• You can now enable pop-ups on raster tile layers without a backing feature layer by referencing a feature layer with relevant attributes. Additionally, when configuring pop-ups, you can filter which attachments are displayed in the pop-up based on selected keywords and attachment type.
• When styling vector line and vector polygon fill symbols that have the offset effect property, you can now configure the offset distance, join method, and drawing performance. Additionally, when styling lines and polygons that support gradient symbology, you can now customize the gradient stroke and gradient fill.
• You can now choose either a script or iFrame when embedding maps using ready-to-use HTML code.
• When browsing for items in My content and My groups, you can now narrow search results by folder or group directly below the search bar. You can also browse for items in Hub catalogs to find layers from ArcGIS Hub sites you've marked as favorites or layers you've opened in Map Viewer from an ArcGIS Hub site.
• You can now add hosted video layers published in ArcGIS Enterprise to a map to view time-enabled videos in a spatial context.
• Map Viewer now supports keyboard shortcuts for opening the Measurement toolbar and Location window.
• Field value formatting has been updated to better align with internationalization standards, which offers improved locale support for date and number fields and introduces new formatting options. You can now show properties such as time zone in pop-ups, enabling you to author maps intended for multiple locales.
• Bar charts have two new parameters: Treat null as category and Enable temporal binning. When enabled, Treat null as category will add a bar summarizing null values from the Category field to the chart. Enable temporal binning is available when a date field is chosen for the Category variable and is used to create bins of time intervals along the x-axis of the chart.
• Scatterplots now include a Tooltip display field parameter, which is used to choose a number field to display in the tooltip for a point without being used as a variable to create the chart.
• The oriented imagery viewer now supports COG and MRF image formats.
• Map Viewer now supports visualization of hyperspectral imagery using both tiled imagery layers and dynamic imagery layers.
• Imagery layers styled using the Minimum maximum or Standard deviation stretch types now perform better when dynamic range adjustment is enabled.

Scenes

• Visualize direction in imagery layers using flow and elevation.
• 3D models with georeferencing information such as IFCv4 files, are now placed automatically in the scene when uploaded.
• Run custom geoprocessing tools directly within Scene Viewer to enable more flexible, scenario-specific analysis workflows.
• You can use the Arcade assistant (beta) to generate ArcGIS Arcade expressions from instructions typed in natural language when configuring pop-ups in Scene Viewer.
• Close all messages that might appear when loading a scene to focus on your task.

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

App configuration

• ArcGIS Dashboards includes several updates. Dashboard authors can now use the Data sources panel in the action bar to review, replace, or repair data sources including maps, layers, and data expressions used in the dashboard. In addition, dashboard authors can now use a slider display type in the date selector, providing an intuitive interface for users to drag and select a specific date or date range for dashboard elements. For more information, see What's new in ArcGIS Dashboards.
• ArcGIS Instant Apps includes several updates. The Attachment Viewer template has had a full redesign for published apps. Additionally, a new configuration option has been added to most templates that allows users to use the language switcher on the cover page as well as the main application. For more information, see What's new in Instant Apps.
• ArcGIS Experience Builder provides a new system for customizing the app theme. In theme settings, you can customize colors, typography, interactive element shapes, and more. Two new widgets are available in Experience Builder. The Login widget adds a sign-in experience to apps and allows you to redirect users to specific app pages, views, windows, or external URLs after a successful sign-in or sign-out. The Image Collection Explorer widget allows you to view individual images from an imagery layer. Other enhancements include split and merge tools for the Edit widget, support for restricting page visibility based on user roles and groups, and support for using your current location as an input and clipping polygon and line features by area of interest with the Near Me widget. For more information, see What's new in Experience Builder.

Content management

• A single 3D layer option is available from the New item menu on the Content page that allows you to create any supported 3D layer type.
• If you configure a webhook receiver outside ArcGIS Online, you can create a webhook to use that receiver to automate quality control, notification, or reporting workflows for your hosted feature layers, hosted feature layer views, or hosted tables.
• When an app or report requests aggregated data from a hosted feature layer or hosted table that contains millions of rows, it can take a long time to perform the query and render the aggregated results. To help reduce the amount of time it takes to perform these types of queries, you can add a columnindex to the fields that participate in the aggregate query.
• See the ArcGIS Arcade release notes for information about new and improved functionality in the latest Arcade releases.

Notebooks

• Users can now create a notebook using a template, a low-code experience that allow users to select from a collection of ready to use notebooks organized into predefined categories that allow you to begin with a working example.
• You can now change a notebook runtime from the Notebooks home page in addition to the item page for a notebook.
• The TensorFlow library and several related libraries and dependencies are deprecated and will no longer be included in the notebook runtimes after February 2026.

Spatial analysis

• Value variables are now supported to add to a model in ModelBuilder. Value variables are connected to tool elements to use as inputs and can be useful for iterating on tool parameters.
• Calculate Field is a new ModelBuilder-only tool that uses an SQL expression to calculate values for a new or existing field.

• The processing extent environment setting has been split into two separate settings: Analysis processing extent applies to feature analysis tools and Raster analysis processing extent applies to raster analysis tools and raster functions. You can turn off Use a different processing extent for raster analysis to apply the Analysis processing extent setting to all analysis.

  The default processing extent for raster analysis is now Display extent.
• The list of available Living Atlas Imagery Layers Optimized for Analysis continues to expand. These imagery layers provide scalability for larger analysis and more diverse workflows in Map Viewer and ArcGIS API for Python.

Accounts and administration

• You can now turn on access to Google Photorealistic 3D basemaps (Beta) in the Map and Scene section of organization settings.
• Administrators can now use a single workflow to transfer a member's user type, role, content, groups, add-on licenses, settings, and member categories to another existing member.