Do you know that there is a prerelease of ArcGIS 10.6?
For all Pinoy qualified customers (customers with licenses current in maintenance through September 28th, 2017), ArcGIS 10.6 pre-release is now available on My Esri. Check it out and get a sneak preview of what is coming out in the final version of ArcGIS 10.6 in 2018. However, ArcGIS Pro 2.1 is not included in this pre-release.
According to the Esri ArcGIS Platform Team, “the 10.6 prerelease includes enhancements and new features to preview the final release of ArcGIS 10.6 that is scheduled for January 2018.”
Among the important things identified by the Esri ArcGIS Platform Team about the ArcGIS 10.6 prerelease are:
- The 10.6 prerelease is primarily an early preview of the upcoming release. It is not intended as a ‘release candidate’. ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 prerelease is not feature complete. Several additional new features and many quality enhancements will be in the final release.
- The prerelease includes ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 and ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.
- New license keys have been created for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 and are available from My Esri. No new license keys are required for ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.
- Not all extensions and server capabilities are available at prerelease. If your favorite extension or feature is not yet available, it will part of the final release.
- It is not supported to upgrade from prior versions to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 prerelease. It will also not be supported to upgrade from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 prerelease to the final version or any other future versions. Install the prerelease on a new system that you plan to decommission after testing.
The Esri ArcGIS Platform Team added that “the ArcGIS Enterprise portal includes many of the enhancements seen in the June and September updates of ArcGIS Online including things like point clustering with web maps. Within ArcGIS Server, there are significant performance improvements to several administrative operations involving service management. GeoAnalytics Server includes new tools and support for ORC and Parquet datasets. The What’s New sections in the installed help will have additional information.”
For Philippine qualified users, contact GEODATA SYSTEMS’s technical support for assistance working with the 10.6 pre-release.