After attending the ESRI Conference last week, here is the latest release schedule for ArcGIS Pro:

• August 2014 – Beta 5 (you can still participate here)
• September 2014 – 10.3 Pre Release
• November 2014 – Released as part of 10.3

You can take a look at my last post about ArcGIS Pro.  And here are some extra tidbits of information I picked up at some of the Pro workshops:

• You will get Pro if you have Desktop
• Web based install or network install
• Improved help system, can install local or on server, or not at all
• Editing is on all the time, no start/stop editing
• As you work with a layer, the ribbon interface changes for just that layer
• Bookmarks honor time & space
• You can export to Excel
• You can reorder attribute fields
• True transparency and anti-aliasing when exporting to PDF, smaller file sizes
• Analysis about 20% faster in Pro
• Tightly integrated with ArcGIS Online and Server on premise
• Can use ArcGIS Online as content storage for Pro
• License levels based on your Desktop license level (Basic, Standard, Advanced)
• Licenses managed via ArcGIS Online or Portal
• You grant access to Pro to named users
• You control product level and extensions for each named user
• Will show which users are using Pro and how much
• All popular extensions available in Pro
• Note: 3D Analyst extension not needed to view 3D data, only for 3D data analysis
• Python scripts run in Pro with minor changes (no map docs, project files instead)
• Uses Python 3.4, 64bit
• You can customize the UI for users
• You can extend Pro with .NET API, beta this fall and released 2015 Dev Summit
• Note: No data driven pages in first release of Pro, python script will be provided
• Note: Cannot create geoprocessing services in the first release of Pro