Stay Updated: List of April 2025 - Technical highlights & Resources from Esri

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Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find.

This blog provides a comprehensive list of all the April 2025 technical highlights and resources from Esri. It is a buffet-style list, so feel free to pick and choose the topics that interest you.

What's New

 

ArcGIS

• What's New in ArcGIS Image Dedicated? (March 2025) here

ArcGIS API for Python

• What's New in ArcGIS API for Python 2.4.1 (April 2025) here

ArcGIS Earth

• What's New in ArcGIS Earth (April 2025) here

ArcGIS StoryMaps

• What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (April 2025) here
• What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (March 2025) here

ArcGIS Urban

• What's New in ArcGIS Urban (March 2025) here

Developers

• What's new in ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps 200.7 here

Esri Demographics

• What's New Esri Demographics (April 2025) here

Patches & Environments

 

ArcGIS Enterprise

• ArcGIS Video Server 11.4 Import and Export Site Patch here
• Portal for ArcGIS 11.3 Security 2025 Update 1 Patch B here
• ArcGIS Server 11.3 Map Services Definition Query Patch here
• ArcGIS Video Server 11.3 Upgrade and Reliability Patch here

News

 

Esri Blog

• The First of Its Kind, University of Kentucky Digital Twin here
• Video: NASA's Open Data Approach to Earth Science here
• Tracking Ghosts: How Smart Maps Help Protect Snow Leopards here
• Public Health Scotland Leverages Location to Boost Healthcare here
• Video: How MITRE Corporation Reveals Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities here
• Geospatial Technology Helps City Planners Protect and Expand Urban Forests here
• Tennessee Building Boom and the State’s Permitting Systems Must Keep Pace here
• North Carolina Lake Patrols Gain Precision with Real-Time Maps here

Podcast

• Location Intelligence: A Critical Tool for Tackling Retail Crime here
• Urban Intelligence: A Leadership Advantage That’s Transforming City Management here

WhereNext

• NextTech: A New Response to the Request, ’Make Me a Map’ here
• The Geospatial Pros with a Business Edge here
• Modernizing Infrastructure in Tight Spaces here
• The Real Estate Team Gets a Side Hustle here
• As Tariffs Loom, Opportunity Emerges here

New Training Courses

 

Training Seminar

• ArcGIS Security Best Practices and Privacy Basics here
• Get Started with ModelBuilder in ArcGIS Online here

Web Course

• Writing ArcGIS Arcade Expressions here
• Introduction to the R-ArcGIS Bridge here
• ArcGIS Online: Working with Imagery here
• Place-Based Storytelling Using ArcGIS StoryMaps here
• Introduction to Lidar Data Using ArcGIS Pro here

ArcGIS Lab

• Processing SAR Data in ArcGIS Notebooks here

Events

 

Esri Events

• 2025 Southeast User Conference - Atlanta, GA - 4/8/25 here
• 2025 Esri Education Summit - San Diego, CA - 7/12/25 here
• 2025 Esri User Conference - San Diego, CA - 7/14/25 here
• 2025 Business Leadership Summit @ Esri UC - San Diego, CA - 7/15/25 here
• 2025 Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference - Palm Springs, CA - 10/28/25 here
• 2025 Esri European Energy Resources GIS Conference - London, UK - 11/4/25 here

Upcoming Webinars

• Spring Esri Emergency Management Forum - 5/1 here
• Streamlining Environmental Protection with GIS - 5/1 here
• Q2 - ArcGIS: Enterprise Mapping & Spatial Analytics System - 5/20 here
• Esri San Antonio | ArcGIS for Comprehensive Hurricane Readiness - 5/21 here
• Esri Northeast Region - Avoid Data Duplication with Collaborations - 5/22 here
• Leverage ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App to Make Impactful Decisions - 5/27 here
• Enhance Government Ops. with Unified Address and Road Data Management - 5/28 here
• AEC Community Webinar-Environmental Consulting - 5/28 here
• GIS Career Insights from Veterans - 5/29 here

Recorded Webinars

 

Esri Video

• What's New in Esri Developer 2025 here
• Enhance Your Business Decisions with ArcGIS for Microsoft Webinar here
• Understanding Cause and Effect Relationships and Analysis Uncertainty: April 2025 here
• Streamlining Environmental Protection with GIS: Exploring Real-World Examples here
• ArcGIS Instant Apps: Introduction to the Reporter and Manager Templates here
• Improving Operational Efficiency with Real-Time Mapping Solutions here
• Leveraging Technology to Save Lives in an Era of Growing Conflict here
• AI in GIS Education: Realm of Possibilities here

ArcGIS Blog

 

ArcGIS

• ArcGIS for Microsoft Webinar Questions and Answers here
• Streamlining water system management with Power Automate here

ArcGIS API for Python

• New! Use the ArcGIS API for Python in Databricks Notebooks here

ArcGIS Dashboards

• Introducing dual-axis charts in ArcGIS Dashboards here

ArcGIS Enterprise

• Deprecation Notice for ArcGIS LocateXT here
• ArcGIS Enterprise Living Atlas content release 2025 here

ArcGIS Experience Builder

• Harness the full potential of Near Me for spatial analysis here

ArcGIS Field Maps

• Apps for Field Operations at the 2025 Esri User Conference here
• ArcGIS for Microsoft 365
• ArcGIS for Microsoft – Helpful resources here
• What’s new in ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 (March 2025) here

ArcGIS Hub

• Cultivate your community with ArcGIS Hub Premium - best practices part 3 here

ArcGIS Indoors

• Water Industry: Enhanced Facility and Vertical Asset Management in the here
• Emergency Response Mapping with Indoor GIS for K-12 Schools here

ArcGIS Instant Apps

• ArcGIS Instant Apps: Tips and Tricks here
• Exploring Key Workflows and Features of the Manager Instant App here
• Exploring Key Use Cases of the Reporter Instant App here

ArcGIS Living Atlas

• What's the Point? here
• Ookla Speedtest for Global Broadband Performance in Living Atlas here
• van Gogh style wind map here
• Earth Day Celebration at Machicomoco here
• Learn to explore Sentinel-2 imagery using Sentinel-2 Explorer here
• Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections here
• High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (March 2025) here

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

• Announcement: ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud Functionality Deprecation here

ArcGIS Mission

• What's Coming in ArcGIS Mission 11.5 here

ArcGIS Online

• Improving Mapping, Visualization and Campus Life here
• Introducing Analysis Tools in Scene Viewer here
• First Quarter Basemap Release Includes Over 200 New and Updated Communities here
• Authoring maps that auto-update using CSV, GeoJSON, and GeoRSS here
• Optimize Your Popups for Accessibility and Internationalization here
• Hack a dramatic portrait mode effect for your ArcGIS Online map here

ArcGIS Pro

• Explore the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem with ArcGIS Pro here
• Faster gp and efficient data management w/ the memory workspace in ArcGIS Pro here
• Prepare your data for National Spatial Reference System modernization here
• A guide to migrating data from ArcGIS Online to an enterprise geodatabase here
• Multidimensional analysis & visualization with the Space Time Kernel Density tool here
• Poles of Inaccessibility here

ArcGIS Solutions

• Leverage the Community Risk Reduction solution for state-level programs here

ArcGIS StoryMaps

• Congratulations to the 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition Winners here
• Write your own GIS tutorial here
• Join us for ArcGIS StoryMaps Live April 2025 here
• Building Resilient Communities: Insights from the 2025 Infrastructure Report Card here
• Developer & Technology Summit 2025: Creating the Digital Twin of Zürich here
• Classic Esri Story Maps Roadmap for Retirement here

ArcGIS Trust Center

• ArcGIS GeoEvent Server Security 2025 1 Patches Available here
• Portal for ArcGIS Security 2025 Update 1 Patch here
• ArcGIS Utility Network
• Creating and sharing maps for utility network data here
• ArcGIS for Utilities – Enterprise GIS for Modern Network Info. Management here
• Deploying a utility network to ArcGIS Enterprise here
• Deploying a Utility Network Foundation here
• Deploying a utility network with the Migration toolset here

Developers

• Stay Ahead with the ArcGIS Geocoding Service April 2025 Updates here
• Announcing ArcGIS Maps SDK 2.0 for Unreal Engine here
• Announcing ArcGIS Maps SDK 2.0 for Unity here

Esri Demographics

• Introducing A New and Seamless Way to Purchase Demographic Data from Esri here

ArcGIS Velocity

• Enhancing Organizational Safety: Real-Time Monitoring with Webinar Q&A here

ArcGIS Knowledge

• MITRE Uses ArcGIS Knowledge To Analyze Critical Infrastructure Dependencies here

ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET

• How to perform snap geometry edits with utility network connectivity rules here
• Frox's Success with ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET for Survey Efficiency here

ArcGIS Location Platform

• Geocoding: Transforming Location Data to Power Better Apps here
• Unleash Powerful Insights: Enrich Your Application with People, Place, and Business Data here
• Empowering Developers and Users with Access to Places and Points of Interest Worldwide here

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric

• GIS Routes transforming operations with ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric here

ArcGIS for SharePoint

• Integrate your SharePoint documents with ArcGIS here