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What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 introduces new features for data management and administration, updates across applications, and enhanced functionality throughout the product. This page highlights some of the new features available at 11.4 and includes links to additional information for specific components and functionality.

For a list of issues that were fixed at 11.4, see the 11.4 Issues Addressed List.

Caution:
Before upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, review considerations for upgrades.

It is recommended that you review the deprecation notice to determine whether your hardware and software components are compatible with version 11.4 and to see a list of functionality that has been deprecated.

Functionality matrix

For a product overview of ArcGIS Enterprise, review the functionality matrix.

Product highlights

For additional details about what's new in all ArcGIS Enterprise components, APIs, server roles, and apps, see the sections and links below.

  • Use ArcGIS Web Editor to streamline complex editing workflows.
  • Access ArcGIS Excalibur directly from the organization as an embedded app.
  • If a custom data provider has been registered with your organization, you can publish a feature layer that references your data provider.
  • Migrate and back up group content by exporting items to an export package (.epk) and using the package to import the items into groups in the same or different organizations.
  • Assign a classification schema to your organization to allow members to classify their items.
  • Use audit logs to monitor user activity and changes to the system.
  • When querying log messages from the Portal Administrator Directory, include server logs by selecting one or all federated servers. Events logged to registered data stores will also be included, allowing you to access all of your organization's logs from one location.
  • Update the organization URL using the ArcGIS Portal Directory.
  • An object store is now a required component of a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment. When you deploy in the Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure cloud, you can use an object store that is provided by the corresponding deployment environment. For on-premises deployments, configure an ArcGIS Data Store object store.
  • Six new data types (GPExtent, GPEnvelope, GPSpatialReference, GPCoordinateSystem, GPStringHidden, and GPSQLExpression) are now supported by web tools and geoprocessing services published from ArcGIS Pro 3.4 or later.
  • Web tools and geoprocessing services can now generate output image services if you publish your analysis from ArcGIS Pro 3.4 or later. See Use an output image service for more information.

ArcGIS Enterprise licensing

ArcGIS License Manager is no longer required to enable named user licensing for ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro extensions, ArcGIS Drone2Map, and ArcGIS AllSource.

The Editor, GIS Professional Standard, and GIS Professional Advanced user type names have changed to Contributor, Professional, and Professional Plus, respectively. You may notice this update when importing a new Portal for ArcGIS license file.

Some user types now include additional apps that were previously available only as add-on licenses. If an app is included with a member's assigned user type, you don't need to assign the member an add-on license for that app. See An introduction to licensing apps through your portal to learn more about apps and the user types that include them.

When one or more add-on licenses assigned to members are included with their user types after upgrading the portal to 11.4, you will see a notice on the Overview tab of the organization page stating that some members have licenses assigned twice. You can unassign duplicate add-on licenses from all applicable members to free up those licenses.

Beta features

Details about beta features in this release are provided.

ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux

Server roles

Server extensions

Apps

There are new features and enhancements for apps in the portal.

APIs and SDK

Cloud

ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes

ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes is a cloud-native deployment option for ArcGIS Enterprise. It is available alongside Windows and Linux deployment options. It delivers ArcGIS Enterprise in a containerized architecture, running on either your organization's Kubernetes platform or your cloud provider's Kubernetes service.

See the ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes help to learn more.

Retirement and deprecation notices

Review each notice below and determine whether they impact your organization's workflows.

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server retired

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server is retired at the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4. See the ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server deprecation notice for more information.

Tile cache data store deprecated

The tile cache data store that you create with ArcGIS Data Store is now deprecated. Hosted scene layer caches will be stored in the object store. See the tile cache data store deprecation notice for more information.

Bing Maps deprecated

Microsoft has deprecated Bing Maps for Enterprise, which will retire and be replaced by Azure Maps on June 30, 2028. As a result, use of Bing Maps in ArcGIS Enterprise is now also deprecated. You can migrate from Bing Maps to Azure Maps by following the instructions in the Microsoft Azure documentation.

See the Bing Maps deprecation notice for more information.

Map Viewer Classic deprecated

Map Viewer Classic is deprecated and replaced by the new Map Viewer. See the Map Viewer Classic deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Configurable Apps deprecated

ArcGIS Configurable Apps is deprecated. You are encouraged to use ArcGIS Instant Apps instead.

See the ArcGIS Configurable Apps deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder deprecated

ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is deprecated. You are encouraged to use ArcGIS Experience Builder instead.

See the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder deprecation notice for more information.