ArcGIS 10.7 Prerelease is available for download now from My ESRI.  This includes Desktop, Engine, and Enterprise.  What’s new in 10.7 can be found here.  System requirements here.  Release note here.  The quick start guide can be found here.

The ArcGIS Desktop and Engine 10.7 setup packages are designed to detect and upgrade an existing installation of the same ArcGIS product. The settings for the installation location, License Manager (for Concurrent Use), or authorization information (for Single Use) are retained during the upgrade.  Continue reading →

ArcGIS Pro 2.3 just became available today.  Check out what’s new here.

Quite a few customer requests were added to this release.  To view what they are, ESRI has made a video of each request.

More info can be found here.  Release notes can be found here.

The system requirements for 2.3 can be found here.  ArcGIS Pro will not be supported on Windows 7 after January 2020.

And if you have been running ArcGIS Pro on a Mac using Parallels or VMware Fusion, at 2.3 you will not be able to do that anymore.  Instead you must use Boot Camp.  Read more about that here.

ESRI recently sent out a reminder that starting April 16, 2019, they will be updating ArcGIS Online to enforce the use of TLS version 1.2 only.  The update is likely to affect most ArcGIS software and your custom solutions.  If you have not updated and validated your system’s support for TLS 1.2 only, you may lose your ability to connect to ArcGIS Online.

If you use ArcGIS Pro to connect to ArcGIS Online, you are fine if you are using versions 2.0 to 2.3.  If you are using Pro 1.2 to 1.4.1, these versions are all retired and you are encouraged to upgrade to the recent version.

If you use ArcGIS Desktop to connect to ArcGIS Online, version 10.7, to be released in first half of 2019, will support TLS 1.2.  Version 10.6.1 and earlier will require a patch to enable TLS 1.2.  ESRI has provided validation web services so you can quickly verify that ArcGIS Desktop, third-party apps, and custom components will work when TLS 1.2 only is enforced.

For more info on this, see ESRI’s technical support article on TLS.  Also see the list of software products affected by this change.  To enable TLS 1.2 on ArcGIS Desktop, see this FAQ.  Validation web services can be found here.

Starting the night of December 5th, ESRI will be changing the user types in ArcGIS Online.  Right now there is a Level 1 and Level 2 user, where Level 1 was a viewer only and Level 2 could publish and edit data.  After the change there will be 5 user types: Viewer (formally Level 1), Editor, Field Worker, Creator (formally Level 2), and GIS Professional.

The new user types include a mix of capabilities and included applications.  For example, the Field Worker user type includes the ability to edit existing datasets through field apps like Survey123, Workforce, and Collector.  The different functions of each user type can be found here.  Read the ESRI blog about the new user types here.

ESRI states your current user settings will not change … I would check that after December 5th!  Role settings will not change.