What's new in version 1.4

New

• Added full capabilities to install arcgis package with pip
• Added Upload Manager to aid in upload operations to the server
• Added shapely support to the Spatial DataFrame
• Added is_empty property for checking geometry
• Added support for GeoJSON LineStrings, and Polygons
• Added support for Operations Viewss and Dashboards to clone_items function on Content Manager
• Added ability to Content Manager to search for map image layers
• Enhanced Map Image Layer.export() to output image and kmz formats
• Added ability to export data from non-hosted feature layer to Excel
• Added support for multiple profiles persisted in the .arcgisprofile
• Added ability to plot a GeoSeries (See Spatial DataFrame with suite of symbology and rendering options
• Added admin functionality for Portal users with publisher privileges
• Added output_cellsize parameter to resample raster function
• Added ability to read list of Feature Layers to FeatureLayerCollectionManager.create_view method
• Added ability to register SDE Connection Files as a data store
• Improved performance when cloning items
• Added parameters to user.update() method to accept first and last names as input
• Added distanceSplit and distanceSplitUnit parameters to GeoAnalytics.reconstruct_tracks function
• Added cellSize, cellSizeUnits, and shapeType parameters to features.analyze_patterns.find_hot_spot function
• Added support for Content Categories for portal items
• Added ability to convert Rasters to Features with ImageryLayer.to_features() function
• Added [draw_graph] function to ImageryLayer objects for for visualizing Raster function workflows
• Added support for additional rasters as inputs to raster functions
• Added additional rendering support to MapView and FeatureLayer" objects
• Added users_update_items parameter to GroupManager.create() to allow members to update all items in group
• Added token parameter to GIS for logging into GIS from external contexts
• Enhanced automation of creating users with security_question parameter to user.update() method
• Added support for MapImageLayer to map.add_layer() method

Fixes

• Group.add_user method will accept user objects or a string representing username as input.
• Updated date handling and integer types available on the Spatial DataFrame
• Fixed issue where mixed-content layers were failing when using the map widget
• Fixed issue where FeatureSet.df was not properly setting the spatial reference
• Detailed warnings issued exporting layer with global function in the function chain
• Fixed issue where PNG files referenced in thumbnail parameter on user.update() method raised an exception
• Fixed error when drawing FeatureCollections with datetime fields
• Fixed bug where ContentManager.import_data() returned error if Pandas dataframe did not contain addresses
• Fixed bug when using SpatialDataFrame.to_featurelayer() method for environments lacking ArcPy site-package
• Fixed issue where time-enabled hosted feature layers failed to clone to portal items
• Fixed projection issue when using SpatialDataFrame.to_featureclass() method when ArcPy site-package not present
• Fixed problem with Geoenrichment.Country.subgeographies queries not returning results
• Fixed handling of NoneType responses for Geoprocessing service requests
• Fixed bug where user.update_level() method was not changing level of user
• Added missing parameters to raster.classify function
• Fixed errors when writing dates to feature attributes