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.
It is recommended that you review the deprecation notice to determine if your hardware and software components are still 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 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.
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 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.
- Configure routing services supports a new service called Snap to Roads (Beta) using a network dataset in mobile geodatabase.
ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux
Server roles
Server extensions
Apps
There are new features and enhancements for apps in the portal.
- 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 AppBuilder.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Web Editor.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Workforce.
- See What's new in Indoor Floor Plan Editor
- See What's new in Indoor Space Planner.
- See What's new in Indoor Viewer.
APIs and SDK
- Developers can use custom data feeds to write code that connects to custom data formats and serves that data as feature services. It is developed using the ArcGIS Enterprise SDK and must be installed on the same machine as ArcGIS Server.
- 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 notices
Review each notice below and determine whether they impact your organization's workflows.
ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server
ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server is being retired at the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4. See the ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server deprecation notice for more information.