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What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 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 11.5 and includes links to additional information for specific components and functionality.

For a list of issues that were fixed at 11.5, see the 11.5 Issues Addressed List.

Caution:
Before upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5, 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 11.5 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.

Installation requirements

The ArcGIS Web Adaptor installation now comes with two .war files. If you're using Apache Tomcat 10.1.x, you must deploy the arcgis_tomcat10.war file to your application server. For Tomcat 9.0.x and all other Java application servers, you must deploy the arcgis.war file. For instructions on how to deploy a .war file, refer to the documentation for your application server.

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 API for JavaScript version 3.x retired

ArcGIS API for JavaScript version 3.x is retired at the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5. See the ArcGIS API for JavaScript version 3.x retirement notice for more information.

Tile cache data store deprecated

The tile cache data store that you create with ArcGIS Data Store is deprecated. ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release that will support the tile cache data store. If you have hosted scene layer caches stored in the tile cache data store, you must configure an object store and migrate hosted scene layer caches at this release. See the tile cache data store deprecation notice for more information.

Map Viewer Classic deprecated

Map Viewer Classic is deprecated and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release to support it. You are encouraged to use Map Viewer instead.

See the Map Viewer Classic deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Configurable Apps deprecated

ArcGIS Configurable Apps is deprecated and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release to support it. 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 and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release to support it. You are encouraged to use ArcGIS Experience Builder instead.

See the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Insights deprecated

ArcGIS Insights is deprecated and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is the last release to support it. See the ArcGIS Insights deprecation notice for more information.

ArcGIS Workflow Manager (Classic) deprecated

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 was the last release to support ArcGIS Workflow Manager (Classic). Beginning at 11.5, ArcGIS Workflow Manager (Classic) is no longer supported. See the ArcGIS Workflow Manager (Classic) deprecation notice for more information.

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.