ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 is available

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 Is Available

March 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ESRI

For all those who can’t resist installing the latest service pack for ArcGIS, here it is:

ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 5
ArcGIS Image Server Service Pack 5

In case you can’t remember if you care or not, check out the Service Pack 5 announcement.

Freakin’ sweet!

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8 responses so far ↓

1 Paul // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Reading the list of “issues addressed” makes my head hurt.

Does anyone - ESRI included - think that an SP5 is a consequence of good product engineering or a clear sign that they need to revamp their internal processes?

I have my own opinion; but I’m interested in what other’s think.

I will say that it’s hard for anyone to argue that 5 service packs is bordering on “abusive” for the user base.
2 Ron // Mar 27, 2008 at 10:51 am

Yeah, it’s pretty sad that it takes 5 service packs to fix 9.2. The good thing is that usually they come with new features.
3 greg // Mar 27, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Well, they could alway follow the MS model, 55 patches between SPs.
4 Brian Johnson // Mar 27, 2008 at 6:39 pm

I just want to get away from DOS and 8 or 13 character file names and no spaces in the directory path…

Yikes! I forget about this every once in a while, and the cryptic errors messages don’t say anything about these issues some times - just a failure to work message.

I need my co-worker to slap me on the head when I ask him why I can’t apply a projection to this batch of rasters…..and then I remember - this is ESRI.
5 jaro // Mar 28, 2008 at 2:39 am

is it the last one, or SP6 is coming in next months?
6 LatinGIS // Mar 31, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Does anybody know if this is the last SP before 9.3? or SP6 is on the road?
7 Schuller Tom // Mar 31, 2008 at 10:34 pm

I have seen in the beta forum of esri a post about solving bugfixes in sp6.
8 m buss // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:48 am

GIS is a complicated product. Its not a video game; I think its more like an OS. It doesn’t have the luxury of creating its own exclusive operating environment within a set of given system parameters. The mandate is to connect different data within a common, shared operating environment. Of course its painful to have so many imperfections and sensitivities, and only of limited comfort to see such extensive corrections. But it seems like this cost is necessary because the tool is powerful.

I hope the crew at ESRI stay on it. I love them for it. xxoo