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ArcGIS Pro Prerelease Update

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10-31-2014 10:30 AM
RobElkins
by Esri Contributor
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‎10-31-2014 10:30 AM

Last night we released an update to ArcGIS Pro Prerelease.  To get the update you'll need to have Pre-Release installed and authorized.  Then you start up Prerelease and will be notified that an update is available. Actually there are 3 new updates, one for the app, one for the Help System and one for Python.

With this update, ArcGIS Pro is "feature complete" for the 1.0 release that will be part of ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop.  Our focus has shifted from new development to bug fix and stabilization.  More than ever we need your help.  If you see something wrong please say something.  You can contact Support and or submit a error report.

We have also added a new Category to the ArcGIS Ideas site called "ArcGIS Pro". This is were you can submit ideas to improve the app and vote on other user submitted ideas.

Thanks for all your patience and help with this release!

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JoshuaBixby
by MVP Esteemed Contributor
MVP Esteemed Contributor
‎11-03-2014 02:16 PM

This is a larger question about ArcGIS Pro updates in general and not this specific update.

After I received notification that an update was available and it started downloading, I noticed the application was downloading ~650 MB, which seems to be the entire application.

Are future updates always going to be entire re-downloads of the application or will they be incremental or differential between the installed version and what was updated?  Downloading the entire app to basically apply a patch seems very inefficient.

I work for an organization with thousands of GIS users spread across hundreds of small offices in rural areas, I have concerns about users re-downloading 650 MB or more every time an update comes out.

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curtvprice
by MVP Alum
MVP Alum
‎01-08-2015 01:46 PM

I could not agree more. Updates should be made available in a more "offline" format, especially if they are going to be hundreds of MB so we can apply updates across our organization efficiently.

There is no way we want each user on each desktop wasting our extremely limited external bandwidth.

A member of the Esri team promised they will post all versions after release through MyEsri. See:

ArcGIS Pro Flawed Update Strategy‌

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