ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 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 and includes links to additional information for specific components and functionality.
Several features have been retired or deprecated at this release. See retirement and deprecation notices for details. For a list of beta features in this release, see beta features.
Additional supporting resources for this version:
Caution:
Before upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, review the considerations for upgrades.
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.
- ArcGIS Topographic Mapping is a server extension that allows you to publish topographic map products using a map service. This extension consolidates the extensions previously known as ArcGIS Production Mapping and ArcGIS Defense Mapping.
- When deploying ArcGIS Enterprise in a cloud environment, administrators can store the server directories that are configured with ArcGIS Server in object storage from a cloud service. This option is an alternative to storing these directories in a file share.
- Service interceptors are an extensibility pattern in ArcGIS Enterprise that allows developers to inspect and modify existing GIS service requests and responses at runtime. They are lightweight and customizable components that can intercept network traffic from any REST-based service published to ArcGIS Enterprise, regardless of its service type. Learn more in an Overview of service interceptors.
Notebook templates are a new 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. For more information, see Create a notebook.
- Audit logs are now supported for access operations on map, feature, geoprocessing, and image services. See Audit logs for more information.
- Enable Workflow Management as an organization-wide extension, allowing ArcGIS Workflow Manager to complete workflows on behalf of organization members, including all tasks they have the privileges to perform, such as creating and sharing an item and editing data.
Beta features
Details about beta features in this release are provided.
- ArcGIS Data Pipelines (beta) is a no-code, visual data engineering capability that makes it easy to prepare and integrate data for mapping and analysis workflows.
- ArcGIS Reality Server (beta) provides distributed computing and storage systems that powers reality mapping capabilities for large collections of drones, digital aerial and satellite images.
- Organization administrators, or those with administrative privileges, can configure AI assistants (beta) for use by members of the organization. Generative AI capabilities are only enabled when the organization opts in.
- An Item details assistant (beta) helps you improve the quality of the information you store about your items, which, in turn, helps other users find, understand, and use the items.
- Administrators can use Prometheus to collect observability metrics (beta) for ArcGIS Server to provide better insight into the performance of services and machine resource usage.
ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux
Servers
Server extensions
Apps
There are new features and enhancements for the following apps in ArcGIS Enterprise:
- See What's new in ArcGIS Dashboards.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise Sites.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Excalibur.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Experience Builder.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Field Maps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Instant Apps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Knowledge Studio.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Mission.
- See What's new in ArcGIS QuickCapture.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Solutions.
- See What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Urban.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Web Editor.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Workforce.
- See What's new in Indoors Floor Plan Editor
- See What's new in Indoors Space Planner.
- See What's new in Indoors Viewer.
APIs and SDK
- See what's new for developers in ArcGIS Server administration, Portal administration, ArcGIS Services Directory, and the ArcGIS Portal Directory.
- See the ArcGIS API for Python documentation.
- See the ArcGIS Enterprise SDK documentation.
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.
Map Viewer Classic is no longer supported
ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 does not include Map Viewer Classic. Use Map Viewer instead.
See the Map Viewer Classic deprecation notice for more information.
Tile cache data store is retired
The functionality of the tile cache data store has moved to the object store. See the tile cache data store deprecation notice for more information.
Note:
If you have hosted scene layer caches stored in the tile cache data store, you cannot upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0. You must first upgrade the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to 11.5, configure an object store, and migrate hosted scene layer caches before you can upgrade to 12.0.
ArcGIS Server Localized setups are no longer supported
ArcGIS Server no longer provides localized setups. See Localize ArcGIS Server for available localization resources.
ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is retired
ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is no longer supported with ArcGIS Enterprise. You are encouraged to use ArcGIS Experience Builder to create apps.
Note:
Existing apps created with ArcGIS Web AppBuilder will not function when you upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0.
See the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder deprecation notice for more information.
ArcGIS Configurable Apps is retired
ArcGIS Configurable Apps templates are no longer included or supported with ArcGIS Enterprise. You are encouraged to use ArcGIS Instant Apps instead.
Note:
Existing apps created with ArcGIS Configurable Apps templates will not function when you upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0.
See the ArcGIS Configurable Apps deprecation notice for more information.
ArcGIS Insights is retired
ArcGIS Insights is no longer supported with ArcGIS Enterprise. See the ArcGIS Insights deprecation notice for more information.
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is no longer supported
Starting with ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, SQL Server 2017 is not supported. If you are using SQL Server 2017, upgrade the database to a supported version before you upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise to 12.0.
PostgreSQL 13.x is no longer supported
Starting with ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, PostgreSQL 13.x is not supported. If you are using PostgreSQL 13.x, upgrade the database to a supported version before you upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise to 12.0.
Snowflake to retire single-factor authentication
Snowflake is removing support for single-factor authentication with passwords this year. This will impact connections to Snowflake from all releases of ArcGIS Enterprise. For information about the steps you must take to ensure that you can continue to access data in Snowflake, see Esri technical article 35129 and the ArcGIS Blog article, Snowflake to Block Single-Factor Authentication: What You Need to Know.