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Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

AlexP_ — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:02:31 GMT

Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise? What is the different? Which do you recommend? I am looking into purchase product related gov. I am not clear about pre release but it sounds risky. Please advise. Thank you.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:38:34 GMT

any documents for pre-release versions?

EDIT

Blog post on the prerelease.... but no details

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

JayantaPoddar — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:36:13 GMT

I would recommend to go for ArcGIS 10.5 now. You will be eligible for 10.6 (final release) as well. We can expect the final release by end of Dec. 2017.( dlaw-esristaff: Please correct me if I am wrong.)

Don't go for pre-release (unless you want to test it), as you won't be able to upgrade it.

Also the pre-release won't have all the features that would come along final release of 10.6.

Also the documentation of ArcGIS 10.6 will be released when the final release comes out.

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.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

AlexP_ — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:34:44 GMT

Thank you, Dan.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

AlexP_ — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:35:21 GMT

Thank you for your reply, Jayanta.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DerekLaw — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:10:25 GMT

FYI, ArcGIS 10.6 is scheduled for release by the end of this year - but this date is NOT final and may change.

Hope this helps,

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:14:10 GMT

Derek... is there any information on what is there (so far, I know it isn't done)? Is it just bug fixes?

Just announcing a release date isn't very exciting if there is nothing to get excited about .

It is like saying 'more of the same...just a new number'

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DerekLaw — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:39:57 GMT

Hi Dan,

If you download and install the 10.6 software, the included help documentation should have a "What's new" topic. I do know that there are some enhancements for ArcGIS Enterprise, not sure about ArcGIS Desktop.

Hope this helps,

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:50:10 GMT

Yes, I was hoping they had a sneak peak at the what's new before one downloaded and installed it, just in case what's new might suggest a 'just wait'

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:36:29 GMT

Dan Patterson‌ They have posted it here http://gisupdates.esri.com/ArcGIS/106pr/ArcGIS_106_ArcMap_Whats_New.pdf

My favorite new item is they added D-infinity to the hydro tools. Thomas Colson‌ (Tom not sure if you received my PM a few years ago but I worked off of your NC research, applying this and more physiographic variables through logistic regression. Interestingly, accuracy in the slate belt was not increased that much, albeit but a bit.)

Excerpt:

Hydrology toolset

• A new tool Flow Distance is now available for calculating the minimum downslope distance for each cell to the stream into which they flow.

• The Flow Accumulation tool now supports a new output data type of Double, to provide more accurate accumulation values.

• The Flow Direction tool now supports two new algorithms for determining the direction of flow. A new parameter, Flow direction type, allows you choose between the original algorithm (D8), multiple flow direction (MFD), and D-Infinity (DINF).

• The following tools now support parallel processing for enhanced performance: Basin, Fill, Flow Accumulation, Flow Direction, Sink, Stream Link, and Watershed

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:45:26 GMT

sadly there is no mention of replacing python 2.7 with python 3.5+ at least. I suppose they are going to run ArcMap until python 2.7 becomes terminal next year.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

VinceAngelo — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:31:16 GMT

ArcGIS 10.5.1 is the current release. I would recommend ArcGIS 10.5.1 over 10.5.0 for immediate use.

Pre-release builds are not supported for upgrade to final, so pre-release is not comparable to any final release in terms of deployment. 10.6pr is great to practice for 10.6 upgrade, but you have to be willing to walk away from any data which has been migrated.

- V

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:00:00 GMT

I'm also wondering about Server. We were about to upgrade to 10.5.x Server very soon. Anyone else in this boat? I'm wondering about advantages of 10.6 Server. On the one hand, I like that 10.5.1 is patched and vetted. On the other hand, I imagine patches going forward will be for 10.6, at least feature updates. I know security ones are backported farther back. I believe there were a few things about more streamlined Portal setup. We don't have Portal but are considering it either when I install 10.5/6 or perhaps some point thereafter. And yes for Python 3 >>.ArcPro.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:13:41 GMT

Kevin MacLeod We are in the same boat. We are working on upgrading from 10.2.2 to 10.5.1. (edit....For Server, Portal, Image Server)

We have so many other moving parts in the picture (SQL, new servers/OS, remote servers/workstaion vs local, etc) and it has taken us so long to get to a place we are ready to really do it, that we will not move to 10.6, even if it is released before our upgrade is ready.

I think the move to 10.5.1 and all the rest is a big enough leap for us that the vetted-ness of it is a plus. I'm sure it will get patches as need for quite some time....even if not necessarily new features.

my 2-cents, from our perspective.

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:00:00 GMT

We are actually exactly the same boat! With SQL, OS, hardware etc. And yes I'm also leaning on the same decision, going 10.5.1.x Thanks for your thoughts. Maybe we can discuss how it went with each other at Dev Conf! Hope to see you there!

Re: Prerelease for ArcGIS 10.6 or ArcGIS 10.5 Enterprise?

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:35:34 GMT

I think that is smart. An upgrade to 10.6 should be fairly painless (after vetting) once 10.5.1 is running smooth, is my guess. We also haven't done anything with Portal, except install and set up a test site using my developer subscription.

We do not plan to federate at all because of all the overhead of the named users and the "security take over" of ArcGIS Server.

I'm actually starting with our Image Server server (on its own machine now) and trying to improve on what I had done (or not done efficiently) in our 10.2.2 server. I have a long thread I started yesterday you can find if interested. It's mainly trying to help get my mind wrapped around all of it.

See you at the Dev!