Release notes for 100.15

• BUG-000154793 The clone property for the feature layer does not clone the respective LabelDefinitions to a new feature layer object.

• BUG-000163776 Dictionary Renderer Expression scaling renders incorrectly in 3D. Reported via a question on Esri community.

• BUG-000167293 Switching the map view back and forth causes the map view to be blank.

• BUG-000167761 Switching between web maps before the layer loads causes the application to freeze.

• BUG-000167816 GeodatabaseFeatureTable.LoadAysnc causes Esri.ArcGISRuntime.ArcGISRuntimeException: No Data.

• outStatistics query in requests causes delayed response while querying for features from ArcGIS Enterprise feature services.

• Possible race condition during applyEdits and feature refresh.

• Line labels are offset from and display beyond the line feature.

• Failed attachment upload leads to silent failure in ServiceGeodatabase.applyEdits() call.

• Arcade Evaluator crashes when calling BufferGeodetic with single vertex geometry.

• Text symbol offsets for labels don't display correctly on high-resolution screens.

• Upgrades HarfBuzz 3rd-party library to 8.3.0 to avoid a security vulnerability with versions 6.0.0 and earlier.
• Labeling performance improvement for multi-part line features.
• BUG-000152602 Identifying layers causes an unnecessary login prompt for public layers when used with an imagery basemap.

• BUG-000161160 Cancelling a login for the ArcGIS Runtime for .NET OAuth sample gives the error: "A task was cancelled" without prompting to login again.

• BUG-000159531 Memory leaks when adding/removing layers from a map or scene.
• BUG-000160998 Significant reduction in performance if using a feature layer with more than 3000 polyline features and using the arrow marker style.
• BUG-000161071 After rotating, an ArcGIS Runtime application crashes intermittently when an offline map, containing several feature layers that have a refreshInterval defined, is loaded.
• Potential crash when executing multiple attribute rules simultaneously.
• Arcade expressions that use a straight apostrophe (') fail to evaluate.
• WMTS layers fail to load on some maps due to duplicate parameters.
• Feature table fails to load if the feature service layer has a null extent.
• A map that contains a lot of data and heavily uses labels may crash when rendering the labels.
• Loading a locator task from an .mmpk may crash on certain devices.

• BUG-000149324 Identifying a feature with a hidden field does not return popup.

• BUG-000157495 Applying edits on a feature service fails to associate attachment to its feature when there is another layer in the service that does not have attachments enabled.

• BUG-000158130 Updating SubtypeFeatureLayer.ScaleSymbols does not update its value.

• BUG-000158132 Cloned SubtypeFeatureLayer does not retain values for the ScaleSymbols property.

• BUG-000158270 Animate images with image overlay hangs on Xamarin Forms.

• Several OAuth fixes around short-lived tokens.

• Improve http caching by allowing responses with Vary: Accept-Encoding thereby preventing data to be redownloaded with vector tiled basemaps and a few other services.

• If an Enterprise 11.1 feature service layer response erroneously excludes domain information, the app crashes without providing load errors or diagnostic information.

• An app crashes when using a locator built with ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later.

• Attachments are not uploaded for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 hosted services with sync disabled.

• A non-spatial table's formInfo json is not set in the unsupportedJSON dictionary when saving it to a portal item.

• Deleting a parent feature in a simple relationship may clear the attributes of its child feature while applying edits in a ServiceGeodatabase.

• Political boundaries are not displayed when a basemap is added to a scene view.

• Upgrade Libtiff 4.5.1 to resolve some exposed security vulnerabilities.

• BUG-000157449 Application crashes intermittently when an offline map including a basemap and 10 operational feature layers with refreshInterval is loaded.

• BUG-000148794 Several features fail to render despite zooming in and panning when featureRequestMode is onInteractionCache and tilingMode is disabled.

• BUG-000155484 SubtypeFeatureLayer pointing to service with labeling info fails to load.

• BUG-000153386 Reference scale not honored for some symbols in a SubtypeFeatureLayer.

• BUG-000156196 PictureMarkerSymbol causes a memory leak when a new instance is created outside of the map view.

• BUG-000157983 Reduce CPU usage when SceneView idles.

• Using service-level applyEdits() fails to delete features in some cases.

• System tables in a service are not correctly identified.

• System table edits are not sent with calls to ServiceGeodatabase.applyEditsAsync().

• Magnifier image is distorted after MapView is resized.

• PopUp elements fail to create from returned Arcade dictionary.

• Upgrade Protobuf 3rd-party library to 3.21.12 to avoid security vulnerabilities.

• BUG-000158270 Use of ImageOverlay or KmlGroundOverlay may cause Xamarin Forms applications to hang.

• BUG-000119969 Process memory leaks when adding and removing feature collection layers frequently.

• BUG-000150574 Marker symbol rotation in feature collection not honored from webmaps.

• BUG-000151826 Arcade expression shows inconsistent behavior in case sensitivity when Simple renderer and Dictionary renderer is used.

• BUG-000152564 createTableAsync method of geodatabase ignores the vertical coordinate system of the table description.

• BUG-000152913 Data (mmpk, tpk, etc.) cannot be opened in Runtime SDKs from external hard drives.

• BUG-000153347 Crash while solving offline routes on features with self-intersecting geometry in Android.

• The results of Arcade expressions are incorrectly cached between features in Media popup elements.

• Distinguish between null being returned from an immediate calculation attribute rule and an empty return value.

• Updating LabelDef.Symbol.Color after changing LabelDefinition does not work on specific layers.

• Map does not refresh after setting a feature layer's definition expression to "field_name is null" when tiling mode is disabled.

• Projecting curved feature geometry from Web Mercator to WGS 84 causes a crash.

• Location updates for floor-aware geotriggers do not work with all integer types used to represent floor information.

• Updated RouteTrackerLocationDataSource to support asynchronous start and stop methods to be consistent with those used by IndoorsLocationDataSource.

• Modified the timestamp calculation used by the Kalman filter in the positioning estimation of IndoorsLocationDataSource, improving its accuracy.

• Fixed a buffer underflow bug in the floor estimator that caused occasional crashes in IndoorsLocationDataSource.

• Unable to delete features from hosted feature layers that do not have GlobalIDs.

• Contingent values validation logic doesn't match ArcGIS Pro if there are no contingencies defined for the current subtype.

• A UtilityNetwork created with a URL not matching the case 'FeatureServer' fails to trace, get associations with extent, and query trace configs.

• A direction maneuver is sometimes missing from the results when a route traverses a feature with a self-intersecting geometry.

• Upgraded zlib library to 1.2.13 to address security vulnerability.

• Upgraded Libtiff from 4.4.0 to 4.5.0 to address security vulnerabilities.

• Upgrade sqlite to version 3.39.2 to address vulnerability.

Line labeling improvements

At this release, labels on line features are kept in the visible extent when possible. This behavior is automatic (no additional API calls are required) unless repetition is being used along the line. If repetition is used then it is assumed that the author is deliberately controlling the approximate frequency of labels on the map in order to avoid clutter.

Line labels will also make more small local movements to avoid obstacle features or other labels. This applies to labels that use repetition and those that don't. For labels with repetition, this may affect the distance between repetitions.

Support for text symbol flip angle

ArcGIS Runtime now honors flip angle on a CIMTextSymbol. The flip angle property defines the angle at which rotated text is flipped (mirrored) in place. The property gets applied dynamically at rendering time and is not exposed via a public API. Angle is calculated in degrees from vertical. There are four different ways rotation can be applied to a symbol: map rotation, symbol rotation, geometry rotation, and marker rotation (defined on the respective symbol layer). Flip angle is not honored in 3D or if the text symbol's angle property is greater than 0.

Prevent subnetwork controller deletion

The utility network allows designating specific features as subnetwork controllers. Subnetwork controller features serve as network sources or sinks and form the starting points of a subnetwork. After a device or junction object has been assigned as a subnetwork controller, the feature cannot be deleted. Beginning with version 100.15, when attempting to delete a feature that is a subnetwork controller, ArcGIS Runtime will prevent its deletion.

Geotriggers are now floor-aware

Geotriggers that use floor-aware feature data can now make use of the level information provided by a floor-aware LocationDataSource (such as the IndoorsLocationDataSource ) to limit notifications to fences on the correct floor. For example, notifications will only be sent when you enter/exit a fence based on a feature that is on the same floor as your current Location . If the location does not include floor information then the floor attribute of a fence is ignored.

Support for large positioning files

In previous releases, the IndoorsLocationDataSource did not always work effectively on all platforms when using large positioning files (30 MB or more). With release 100.15, the indoor location data source can use positioning files up to 300 MB.

Improved indoor position accuracy

This release includes several improvements to indoor positioning system (IPS) accuracy.

• Indoor positioning output that does not use path snapping is now more stable. The display presents fewer horizontal/sideways jumps and drifts and follows the user's actual position more precisely.
• Positioning accuracy has been improved when the location data source switches between GNSS and IPS.
• Floor level estimation is now more accurate.

Improved output

• IndoorsLocationDataSource will no longer send warnings that are not relevant to the diagnosis of indoor location data source issues.
• The timestamps for indoor location data source positioning output are now correct for estimated positions. IndoorsLocationDataSource will no longer output the last known position when a position cannot be estimated.

Arcade improvements

At this release, ArcGIS Runtime supports Arcade 1.19, which has the following enhancements.

• Support for while loops like the one shown below.

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var count = 1
while (count < 10){
  count *= 2
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• Simplified Dictionary construction where the name of an entry is the same as the variable containing the value.

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var hello = "Hello"
var name = "Arcade"
{hello, name} // Equivalent to {"hello":hello, "name":name}

• A new ConvexHull function added to the set of geometry functions.
• The FeatureSet constructor can now accept a dictionary.

For more information, see the Arcade documentation.

Enhanced support for attribute rules

ArcGIS Runtime 100.15 adds support for the following Arcade data functions for use with attribute rules:

• GetFeatureSetInfo() returns metadata for the original source database and service (if applicable) of a feature set. This function was added in Arcade version 1.18.

• NextSequenceValue() returns the next sequence value from the database sequence specified. This function executes locally when called from attribute rules running in stand-alone mobile geodatabases.

Utility Network Trace Toolkit Component

The Utility Network Trace Tool allows you to easily run a trace for any map that has been authored with trace configurations. To use the tool, select a trace configuration and click on the map to add a starting point. Run the trace, and the results will be displayed in the UI and on the map. This is supported in WPF, UWP, and Xamarin Forms.

The following changes have been made to coordinate systems, map projections, and geographic transformations:

• Several planetary satellites and extraterrestrial bodies had updated definitions added based on the IAU/IAG 2015 publication. Projected coordinate systems for Mars and the moon were also added.

• The Luxembourg 1930 name was updated to LUREF which affected geographic and projected coordinate systems and several transformations.

• Several edits were made to geographic transformations:

  • The name of MGI_1901_To_WGS_1984_12, 8688, was updated to MGI_1901_To_WGS_1984_16.
  • The rotation values were fixed in 9383, KSA-GRF17_To_WGS_1984_1, and 9472, DGN95_to_SRGI2013_1.
  • The transformation method was fixed in 1825, Hong_Kong_1980_To_WGS_1984_1.
  • The WKIDs and transformation methods were updated for CR05_to_CR-SIRGAS_1 and CR05_To_WGS_1984_2.
  • A rotation value was fixed in 8827, Camacupa_2015_To_RSAO13_1.

• Many years ago, the EPSG registry (https://epsg.org) deleted entries that had problems. They added corrected entries with new well-known IDs (WKID). This included a large group of geographic transformations where the ‘old’ WKIDs were in the 8xxx range. Esri kept the previous WKIDs in case someone was using them, but ‘code-changed’ the objects to use the official WKIDs. EPSG has started reusing the 8xxx numbers, although only a few objects so far have been affected. The code-change entries that used 8xxx (and which no longer exist in the EPSG registry) were removed at this release. This allows us to use the 8xxx values for new EPSG entries. Five GDA2020 transformations were affected and had been given Esri WKID numbers (108xxx). They now have code-change entries to their official EPSG WKID numbers. These are:

  • GDA_1994_To_GDA2020_1, 108060 to 8048
  • GDA_1994_To_GDA2020_NTv2_2_Conformal_and_Distortion, 108447 to 8447
  • GDA_1994_To_GDA2020_NTv2_3_Conformal, 108446 to 8446
  • GDA_1994_To_GDA2020_NTv2_4_Christmas, 108444 to 8444
  • GDA_1994_To_GDA2020_NTv2_5_Cocos_Keeling, 108445 to 8445

• Several new vertical transformations based on geoids, quasi-geoids, or other conversion grids are available. You can use them to transform to or between gravity-related vertical coordinate systems for the following areas: Belgium, Estonia (geoid file distributed by AlphaGIS, Estonian distributor), Italy (EVRF 2019), Latvia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Tasmania (Australia), Ukraine (EVRF 2019), and United Kingdom (HS2-VRF).

• Projection mathematics for the Hotine oblique Mercator projection and the Rectified skew orthomorphic projection have been modified to fix an issue with ±90° azimuth cases. This is expected to cause about 4 cm offset in the center of the Swiss projected coordinate systems (affected WKIDs are: 2056, 21780, 21781 and 21782). The projection algorithm has been added as a new variant to the Hotine oblique Mercator projection.

Shortly after iOS 16 was announced during Apple's WWDC conference in June 2022, testing began on the developer and public betas to ensure apps built with ArcGIS Runtime could adopt it quickly. Following the official release of iOS 16 on September 12, 2022, ArcGIS Runtime 100.15 was certified to support iOS 16.

ArcGIS Runtime Local Server SDK 100.15 is an incremental compatibility release that provides support for geoprocessing and map packages created with ArcGIS Pro 2.9.x. This release supports the ArcGIS toolbox format (.atbx file extension), which represents the next generation of geoprocessing toolbox, tool, script, and model storage. Using ArcGIS Pro, you can create toolsets, add new model and script tools, change properties, and copy tools from legacy toolboxes (.tbx file) into the new toolbox format. For more information see Create a toolbox.

There are no breaking changes with this release.

• Layers imported from ArcGIS Pro 3.0 that specify labels be offset to the Left or the Right of a line feature (following its digitization direction), will now have that positioning respected rather than defaulting to Above and Below the line feature on the screen.
• Horizontal labels offset from a line feature are now positioned so that their closest point is at the expected offset from the line feature. This was not previously correct in all cases, especially when the map was rotated.
• Labels are no longer lost when elevation changes.

There are no API deprecations with this release.

• Support for Windows 8.1 is deprecated. The last release to support Windows 8.1 is version 100.15. For more information see Windows 8.1 product lifecycle in the Microsoft documentation.

• Support for Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016 is deprecated. The last release to support Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016 is version 100.15. A minimum of Windows Server 2019 will be required at the next release. For more information see Windows Server 2012 lifecycle, Windows Server 2012 R2 lifecycle, and Windows Server 2016 lifecycle in the Microsoft documentation.

• Support for .NET Framework 4.6.1 is deprecated. The last release to support .NET Framework 4.6.1 will be version 100.15. A minimum of .NET Framework 4.7.2 will be required at the next release.

• Support for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 is deprecated. The last release to support Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 is 100.15. A minimum of Visual Studio 2019 will be required at the next release.

• ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET version 100.15 is the last release to include project templates for Visual Studio 2019 in the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET Visual Studio extension. ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET continues to support development with Visual Studio 2019 and you can continue to use standard project templates included with Visual Studio 2019 and reference ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET NuGet packages. See the following Microsoft Docs topic for more information regarding Visual Studio 2019 Platform Targeting and Compatibility.

• Support for Android versions 6.0 Marshmallow (API level 23), 7.0, Nougat (API level 24), and 7.1 Nougat (API level 25), is deprecated. The last release to support these versions is version 100.15. A minimum of Android 8.0 Oreo (API level 26) will be required at the next release.

To learn more about the future of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET, see ArcGIS Runtime in 2022 and beyond blog.

Issues addressed in this release are listed below.

• Question on Esri Community WMTS layer fails to load with "Invalid argument: tile info origin must have a spatial reference"
• Question on Esri Community Changing Opacity of a Surface without Basemap doesn't update on screen
• BUG-000134159: Ordering fields by OrderByFields.Add(orderBy1) in a mobile map package (.mmpk) with 40,000 features fails with an error.
• BUG-000148570: The 2D MapView flickers when displaying the mobile map package data using FeatureRenderingMode.Dynamic or FeatureRenderingMode.Automatic.
• BUG-000149335: The zoom and pan tools built in ArcGIS Runtime SDK 100.14 result in white tiles.
• BUG-000149425: Mobile geodatabase is returning a "No Data" error even though there is data in the mobile geodatabase.
• BUG-000149646: Geotriggers do not create fences for all features from a paged Service Feature Table.
• BUG-000149978: Add/update/delete feature operations that trigger attribute rules whose Arcade expression uses the Domain function will fail to evaluate in Runtime with an "Arcade expression is invalid" error message.

• BUG-000150661: A blank screen is displayed when the application is moved between 2 monitors with different DPI Scaling in ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET.
• Question on Esri Community Sketch Editor hard crash in MAUI.

There are no known issues or limitations for this release.

New samples

• Add features with contingent values
• Apply unique values with alternate symbols
• Display feature layers
• Export vector tiles
• Render multilayer symbols
• Set max extent
• Create mobile geodatabase
• Query features with Arcade expression
• Generate elevation profile with Local Server
• Show device location using indoor positioning

Enhancements

• Added ability to favorite samples.
• Added analytics to WPF sample viewer.
• Added cancel button to Export tiles.
• Changed behavior in Format coordinates to prevent scenario where coordinates could be repeatedly recalculated and rounded.
• Removed use of deprecated ArcGIS Runtime code.
• Resolved various warnings on all platforms.
• Added download progress bars to sample viewers.
• Added reset buttons to Clip geometry and Cut geometry samples.
• Removed unnessecary async void methods from samples.
• Removed unsafe awaits in async void event handlers.
• Updated Display layer view state sample to improve clarity of behavior.
• Added reset buttons to Clip geometry and Cut geometry samples.
• Renamed Generate geodatabase replica from feature service to avoid confusion with Create mobile geodatabase.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug with Local server geoprocessing in Microsoft store sample viewer.
• Fixed Xamarin.Forms Android issue where android:exported needed to be set in activites with intent filters on Android 12.
• Fixed issue where solution configuration prevented deploying Xamarin.Forms to physical iOS devices.
• Fixed a bug in the WPF sample viewer where closing the settings window would minimize the main window.
• Fixed a bug that caused the camera button for the WPF screenshot tool to briefly appear when opening a sample.
• Fixed viewpoint parameters in samples where the 3-parameter viewpoint constructor was using outdated and incorrect behavior.
• Updated data manager to handle situations where no internet connection is available.
• Updated queries in Query with CQL filters to be compatible with CQL2.