What's new in version 2.4.3

New

• Updates documentation regarding ArcGIS Online terms of use
• New modules:
  • arcgis.ai
    • Provides functionality for image and text analysis and translation
  • arcgis.apps.dashboards
    • Focused on managing content dependencies within Dashboard items for more fluid cloning capability
• Deprecated modules:
  • arcgis.apps.dashboard
    • Removal of the module, which has seen no active development since the 2.1.0 release.

Guides

• Update item_type parameter to type for upcoming deprecation of item_type parameter in ItemProperties
• Authentication
  • Different authentication schemes
    • Adds a section for working with developer credentials: DeveloperCredentialManager
• Administration
  • Managing ArcGIS applications
    • Working with ArcGIS Dashboards
      • Introduction to arcgis.apps.dashboards
    • Working with ArcGIS StoryMaps
      • Introduction to StoryMaps
      • Cloning and Editing StoryMaps
      • Introduction to Briefings (ArcGIS StoryMaps)
      • Introduction to Collections (ArcGIS StoryMaps)
• Deep Learning
  • 3D Computer Vision
    • How Hyperspectral3DRCNMet model works

Samples

• GIS analysts and data scientists
  • Which US Counties and States lack access to public airports?
  • Enriching 311 Service Requests with ArcGIS AI Utility Services

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• GIS
  • New properties:
    • admin
  • map()
    • Adds support for entering Point objects for location argument
• Item
  • update()
    • BUG-000176001 Adds documentation to NOTE clarifying the file name for the data argument may differ from original file name
• User
  • New properties:
    • ENH-000154038 categories
  • report()
    • Updates iternal logic to return a csv item or TimeoutError if report cannot be generated in 5 minutes
• UserManager
  • user_settings
    • Adds reference documentation and code example
• ContentManager
  • clone_items()
  • New parameters:
    • For implementations of new arcgis.apps.dashboards module
      • dashboard_mapping - allows for fine-grained management of lower level dashboard information layer and field metadata
      • dashboard_options
    • Updates internal version values of cloned dashboards to latest version compatible with the target organization
    • ENH-000179291 Supports identical item id values for the item_mapping dictionary when cloning Map Services between ArcGIS Enterprise deployments
  • bulk_udpate()
    • Adds code example to reference documentation
  • create_empty_service()
    • Updates reference documentation with links to additional information
• Folder
  • add()
    • Adds support for pathlib.Path objects in the file argument
• OfflineContentManager
  • export_items()
    • New parameters:
      • update_fc - Adds support for exporting to specified format to include updates since original publication to services published from feature class data
• PortalDataStore
  • publish()
    • New parameters:
      • options
      • overwrite
• ResourceManager
  • add()
    • Updates reference documentation for file_name and access parameters
    • Adds code example illustrating explicit file extension required for file_name

arcgis.gis.admin

• Updates internal processing when initializing AdminManager objects for all implementations
• UX
  • New classes:
    • UtilityServicesSettings
  • MapSettings
    • default_mapviwer()
      • Updates method processing and documentation to accommodate deprecation of Classic Map Viewer
• Kubernetes
  • New classes:
    • ConfigurationJob
    • SiteConfiguration
    • Availability
    • LogSetting
    • KAboutManager
  • New functions:
    • configure_enterprise()
  • KubernetesAdmin
    • New properties:
      • about
• LicenseManager
  • New method:
    • stale_entitlement_usage()
• DeveloperCredentialManager
  • create()
    • Adds code example to reference documentation

arcgis.gis.agonb

• Enables the Python API to securely retrieve secrets for use in ArcGIS Notebooks

arcgis.gis.workflowmanager

• Updates error messaging with server messages to provide more comprehensive information

arcgis.features

• FeatureLayer
  • Updates documentation regarding ArcGIS Online terms of use
  • fromitem()
    • New parameter:
      • id_property - Allows for specifying FeatureLayer.properties.id
  • query_top_features()
    • Updates reference documentation to clarify top_filter argument and a code example illustrating results
• Table
  • fromitem()
    • New parameter:
      • id_property - Allows for specifying Table.properties.id
• Spatially Enabled DataFrame (GeoAccessor)
  • to_featureclass()
    • Adds check for mobile geodatabases to avoid potential locking issues

arcgis.features.managers

• ParcelFabricManager
  • Updates internal processing for asynchronous functions
• UtilityNetworkManager
  • Updates internal processing for asynchronous requests to improve performance
• Version
  • New methods:
    • partial_post()
• AttachmentManager
  • update()
    • New parameter:
      • keywords

arcgis.features.analysis

• Adds deprecation notice for return type to those functions with estimate parameter
• arcgis.features.elevation
  • profile()
    • ENH-000145456 Adds documentation note with information necessary to return z and/or m values

arcgis.raster.analytics

• New functions:
  • calculate_image_service()
  • build_multidimensional_info()
  • detect_image_anomalies()
  • detect_target_using_spectra()
  • resample_library_spectra()
• linear_spectral_unmixing
  • New parameters:
    • remove_continuum
• manage_multidimensional_raster()
  • New parameters:
    • truncation_unit
    • start_end_keyword
    • dimension_definition
    • min_value
    • max_value

arcgis.raster.realitymapping

• New functions:
  • compute_spatial_reference_factory_code()
• New Enumerations and settings objects:
  • SensorType
  • ScenarioType
  • Default settings
• Project
  • New parameter:
    • project - for creating a new Project item
  • Modifies accepted string format for sensor_type and scenario_type arguments to camel case
  • New method:
    • from_item()
      • for creating a Project object from an existing item

arcgis.notebook

• New functions:
  • get_secret()

arcgis.geoenrichment

• Country
  • New properties:
    • source
  • get()
    • Adds reference documentation
    • New parameters:
      • hierarchy

arcgis.graph

• New methods:
  • KnowledgeGraph
    • export()
• New Data Model Types:
  • esriMergePolicyType
  • esriSplitPolicyType
  • GraphDomain
  • CodedValue
  • CodedValueDomain
  • RangeDomain
  • GraphDomainMask
  • GraphDomainUpdate
• New Response Types:
  • ExportResponse
  • DomainResponse
  • AddDomainResponse
  • UpdateDomainResponse
  • DeleteDomainResponse
  • DataTransferStats

arcgis.map

• Implements the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 5.0
• Reorganized Table of Contents so manager classes align with headings
• New classes:
  • SubtypeGroupLayer
  • SubtypeGroupTable
  • FormManager
    • available as form_manager properties on these classes:
    • MapContent
    • GroupLayer
    • SubtypeGroupLayer
  • Map Classes
    • OfflineCompatibilityReport
    • CompatibilityIssue
    • BasemapLayerCheckResult
    • LayerCheckResult
    • TableCheckResult
• Refactored classes:
  • PopupManager
  • RendererManager
    • available as the popup_manager or renderer_manager on these classes:
      • MapContent
      • GroupLayer
      • SubtypeGroupLayer
• RendererManager
  • Updates processing to properly check the entire json structure, including that of the service for retrieving rendering information
  • New properties:
    • blend_mode
  • New methods:
    • define_renderer()
  • to_template()
    • New parameter:
      • path
• Map Classes
  • MapContent
    • New methods:
      • renderer_manager()
      • form_manager()
      • popup_manager()
    • New properties:
      • layer_info
      • table_info
  • OfflineMapAreaManager
    • New methods:
      • check_compatibility()
• GroupLayer
  • New methods:
    • renderer_manager()
    • form_manager()
    • popup_manager()

arcgis.apps

• arcgis.apps.dashboard
  • Removed from documentation and code base. Deprecated since release 2.1.0.
• arcgis.apps.storymap
  • New classes:
    • Infographic
    • Image360
    • App
  • Significant refactoring throughout module to:
    • update numerous internal utilities, including for node and resource ID generation
    • improve peformance through loading classes and data only when being used, particularly for internal functions of:
      • Collection
      • Briefing
  • Briefing
    • copy_content()
      • Updates content parameter description to clarify it is a list of slides
  • Collection
    • update_content_info()
      • New parameter:
        • location
• arcgis.apps.survey123
  • SurveyManager
    • create()
      • Public Repo Issue #2229 Adds support for Folder objects
• arcgis.apps.itemgraph
  • ItemGraph
    • New methods:

      • to_knowledgegraph()

arcgis.learn

• Updates the scale_range and num_it values for lr_find methods
• Adds support for prithvi_v2_300M and prithvi_v2_600M backbones for Object Classifiction and several Object Detection models
• Automated Machine Learning
  • AutoML
    • New keyword parameter:
      • use_loc_embeddings
    • ENH-000182626 Renames Training Distance Feature variables using the source feature class instead of generic labels for the importance table

arcgis.datapipelines

• Adds support for the Beta release in ArcGIS Enteprise 12.0

Fixes

Guides

• Administration
  • Customizing the look and feel of your GIS

    • Updates paths and access to accommodate refactored class paths

Samples

• Tabular Data Forecasing
  • Leveraging TabPFN for Human Activity Recognition Using Mobile Dataset
    • Updates to installations instructions for tabpfn

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• GIS
  • Improves internal processing for faster initialization times
  • map()
    • Clarifies API reference description and valid formats for location argument
  • notebook_server
    • Fixes issues with accessing NotebookServer using IWA and/or PKI authentication schemes
    • Fixes issue where value was being returned on ArcGIS for Kubernetes deployments even if no Notebook Server is configured
• Item
  • publish()
    • Fixes error on ArcGIS Enteprise and ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes after updating a source csv, shapefile, file geodatabase or microsoft excel item and attempting to use overwrite=True
  • copy_item()
    • Fixes issue where output was not properly added to the folder argument
    • Updates documentation to include parameter table
  • favorite
    • Fixes KeyError when attempting to get or set an item not owned by logged in user
    • Fixes issue where setting property appears to work but item is not added to user's favorites
• ContentManager
  • clone_items()
    • Fixes failures with updating the definitions of any cloned Feature Layer output to ArcGIS Enterprise
    • Fixes issue where specific Web Mapping Application items had some content removed incorrectly during clone process
    • BUG-000177674 Fixes NoneType is not iterable error when cloning hosted feature layer views with specific authentication schemes
    • BUG-000181596 Fixes issue where setting preserve_item_id=True did not preserve value for ArcGIS StoryMap items
    • Fixes issues when cloning multiscale geometries between ArcGIS Online and another ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise
    • Fixes issue when cloning web map items containing Living Atlas layers between ArcGIS Online deployments
  • search()
    • Fixes spelling error in outside_org parameter documentation
  • import_table()
    • Fixes AttributeError with gdal processing attempting to publish item
• OfflineContentManager
  • Refactors code to use Folder objects and Dataclass objects when appropriate
  • export_items()
    • Public Repo Issue #2326
      • Fixes issue where exported data was missing most recent content from an ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer published from a service definition file
      • Fixes PermissionError that file is being used by another process when running import_content()
      • Fixes issues where some layer-level and field-level metadata, such as description, field descriptions, drawingInfo and maxRecordCount were not properly transferring
  • import_content()
    • Fixes issue where export package was failing to properly load contnet because of improper processing of package content properties
    • Fixes issue with StoryMap items whose resource content contained HTML strings
• ResourceManager
  • add()
    • Updates documentation to include required extenstion value for file_name argument
• APIKey
  • delete()
    • Updates method to permanently delete keys

arcgis.gis.admin

• LicenseManager
  • all()
    • Public Repo Issue #2447 - Fixes issue where method returned no results when expired licenses exist in organization
• UX
  • featured_content
    • Fixes AttributeError when setting value to a group
  • SecuritySettings
    • set_informational_banner()
      • Fixes issue where empty text values incorrectly processed for resetting and/or disabling
  • MapSettings
    • web_styles()
      • Fixes issue where running operation with no values was returning incomplete results

arcgis.gis.server

• Server
  • publish_sd()
    • BUG-000164981 Fixes ConnectionError issue when publishing to stand-alone ArcGIS Server in disconnected environments

arcgis.gis.agonb

• NotebookFolder
  • move()
    • Fixes invalid path error when moving another NotebookFolder object

arcgis.apps.workflowmanager

• WorkflowManager
  • create_job_template()
    • Updates method with missing parameters: default_job_name, default_status, default_final_status

arcgis.features

• FeatureSet
  • sdf
    • Fixes 'float' is not interable error when called on FeatureSet results of network analysis results
• FeatureLayer
  • query_top_features()
    • BUG-000180522 Fixes AttributeError with internal processing structures
  • query()
    • Fixes incorrect error handling when multiple out_fields are specified with return_distinct_values
• Spatially Enabled DataFrame (GeoAccessor)
  • from_featureclass()
    • Fixes TypeError when reading from files with spatial references other than 4326 or 3857 in gdal processing environments
    • Fixes error with case sensitivity when specifying shape or SHAPE in the fields argument
    • Fixes ValueError: I/O operation on closed file in ArcGIS Pro environments
  • full_extent
    • Fixes IndexError: too many indices for array: array is 1-dimensional, but 2 were indexed when using the Arrow format

arcgis.features.analysis

• Fixes UnboundLocalError on tools when run in ArcGIS Online with estimate=True
• arcgis.features.find_locations
  • find_similar_locations()
    • Fixes incorrect output descriptions in reference documentation
  • find_existing_locations()
    • Fixes reference documentation formatting so parameter table renders correctly
• arcgis.features.analyze_patterns
  • Fixes incorrect output descriptions in reference documentation for:
    • find-point-clusters()
    • find-outliers()
• arcgis.features.hydrology
  • trace_downstream()
    • Fixes incorrect totaldistance value on output when run in ArcGIS Enterprise
• arcgis.features.summarize_data
  • summarize_within
    • Updates sum_within_layer parameter description to account for when input can be None
    • Fixes internal processing so bin_type is not incorrectly set if a sum_within_layer is provided

arcgis.features.managers

• Version
  • stop_editing()
    • Fixes documentation error describing method
• TraceNetworkManager
  • validate_topology()
    • Clarifies validation_type parameter API Reference description
• AttachmentManager
  • count()
    • BUG-000183019 Fixes error when running operation against features with no attachments

arcgis.raster

• RasterCollection
  • Fixes HTTPSConnectionPool timeout issue when initializing objects from Landsat services
  • Changes the default value for query_boundary within the context argument to False when initializing object

raster.analytics

• segment
  • Adds missing parameter: max_segment_size_in_pixels

arcgis.raster.functions

• Fixes error when running functions with estimate=True
• segment_mean_shift()
  • Adds missing parameter: max_num_pixels_per_segment
• apply()
  • Fixes situation where saving an imagery layer after applying a filter with rendering rule creates an empty image service
• raster_collection_function()
  • Fixes issue where spatial reference is not being read when passing a Feature Layer as the query_geometry argument

arcgis.raster.functions.RFT

• RFT
  • Fixes issue where parameters load incorrectly when there are value properties in the raster function template

arcgis.geoprocessing

• Fixes issues with tools running in disconnected environments

arcgis.map

• Map
  • Updates initializer so Point object can be used as the location argument was not working
  • Updates reference documentation with a parameter table and initialization code example
  • save()
    • BUG-000175861 Fixes issue with improper keyword handling which prevented the collection button appearing in Field Maps app
• Scene
  • Fixes issue where default basemap was not read from appropriate organization setting
• Map Classes
  • MapContent
    • add()
      • BUG-000181995 Fixes TypeError when adding a WMTS service layer
      • Fixes issue where adding a Feature Layer item with both tables and layers required adding the tables separately
• Scene Classes
  • SceneContent
    • add()
      • Updates internal logic for handling drawing and popup information
      • Updates processing of string input for item argument
      • Fixes TypeError when adding a Scene layer - building (hosted) or BuildingSceneLayer object
• RendererManager
  • from_template()
    • Public Repo Issue #2385 Fixes FileNotFoundError when attempting to apply a saved template from either item resources or a json file
• SmartMappingManager
  • class_breaks_renderer()
    • Fixes AttributeError when a layer definition does not exist in a layer's underlying json structure

arcgis.apps

• itemgraph
  • create_dependency_graph()
    • Public Repo Issue #2429 and BUG-000182468 Fixes issue where ItemNode incorrectly created when id values within web maps resemble structure of item ids
    • Public Repo Issue #2436 Fixes issue with web map dependencies when more than one GIS is specified in the environment
• storymap
  • StoryMap
    • BUG-000181653 Fixes issue where initializing object formed the GIS url incorrectly
    • get_theme()
      • Fixes issue with returning correct theme
    • credits()
      • Fixes issue with internal processing after updating with a description or heading argument
  • BriefingSlide
    • Updates behavior to use requirements instead of raising an error when attempting to use Text object to set title
  • Image
    • display()
      • Improves performance when adding size values by removing redundant internal processing
  • Map
    • Improves many facets of internal code processing for how maps area created, accessed, and updated within StoryMap items
    • delete()
      • Fixes issues when deleting expressmap objects in StoryMap
    • update_map_layers()
      • Fixes internal processing of method so it is more flexible
  • Briefing
    • delete_briefing()
      • New parameters:
        • permanent
  • Collection
    • delete_collection()
      • New parameters:
        • permanent
• survey123
  • SurveyManager
    • surveys
      • Fixes internal processing checks for existing surveys
• workforce
  • Assignment
    • update()
      • BUG-000180622 Fixes KeyError on results

Public Repo Issue #2429

arcgis.learn

• Fixes issue where models generated output with a different bit-depth than the original
• Fixes UnpicklingErrors with multiple different models
• Data Preparation Methods
  • prepare_data()
    • Fixes IndexError with show_batch() on PointCloud datasets for 3D segmentation models
    • Fixes num_workers argument being overwritten on Linux operating systems
• Object Classification Models
  • FeatureClassifier
    • plot_hard_examples()
      • Fixes TypeError when run against models using SAtlas backbones
• Object Detection Models
  • FasterRCNN
    • Fixes various bugs when initializing with terramind_base backbone and chip sizes other than pretrained 224
  • RetinaNet
    • save()
      • Fixes RuntimeError when saving with torchscript framework
  • SingleShotDetector
    • lr_find()
      • Fixes WeightsUnpickler error when running method
    • show_results()
      • Fixes TypeError when saving results at the end of epochs (also occurs with show_batch() on data objects)
  • MaskRCNN
    • Fixes IndexError issues when using various timm backbones
  • MMDetection
    • fit()
      • Fixes warnings returned when using the dcn model
  • DETReg
    • fit()
      • Fixes Could not load best model error
      • Fixes issue with NaN validation loss
• Pixel Classification Models
  • DeepLab
    • Fixes a load failure with previously saved models configured with timm and satlas backbones using ArcGIS Pro Classify Pixels Using Deep Learning tool
  • ChangeDetector
    • precision_recall_score()
      • Fixes peformance issues with this method
  • SamLoRA
    • Updates internal processing to ensure default vit_b backbone is used when no argument provided
• 3D Models
  • PTv3Seg
    • lr_find()
      • Removes warnings that should not be emitted during operation
• Feature, Tabular, and Timeseries Models
  • Fixes issue where negative r2 scores were being returned
  • TimeSeriesModel
    • predict()
      • Fixes TypeError regarding Timestamp argument
      • Fixes ValueError regarding frequency spanning a negative value
• Raster Timeseries Models
  • PSETAE
    • show_results()
      • Fixes a Pandas KeyError when running operation
    • load()
      • Fixes UnpicklingError attempting to load model
• Unstructured Text Models
  • arcgis.learn.text module
    • EntityRecognizer
      • extract_entities()
        • Fixes TypeError: can only join an iterable error
• Inferencing Methods
  • detect_objects()
    • Fixes incorrect threshhold values when using pretrained model building footprints
    • Fixes compatibility errors when using FasterRCNN or RetinaNet models saved in previous version of the Python API
• Model Management
  • train_model()
    • Fixes execution failure with AutoML when using a shapefile for input training features and explanatory distance features