v12.0.0

Knowledge-PBF v12.0.0 Release Notes

November 2025

Upgrade

Protobuf Compiler Upgrade

• The protobuf compiler used to generate classes has been moved to 29.5.
• Instructions to compile proto files: https://github.com/Esri/knowledge-pbf/tree/master/bin#compiling-protobuf-definitions

New Features

Export | Publish

At 12.0.0, the knowledge graph server introduces the ability to export the knowledge graph service to a service definition file, and publish a new knowledge graph service from an existing service definition file. The service definition includes the data, the data model and the service definition properties.

Async Cancellation

At 12.0.0, AsyncCancellation has been enhanced to return a protobuf response from the jobs\{jobid}\cancel operation.

Documents

At 12.0.0, The Documents Geometry property is no longer hard-coded to "geometry", and can be configured to a user-defined name at service creation time.

Query

At 12.0.0, the GraphQueryResultHeader in QueryResponse has been enhanced to include warnings in addition to errors that may occur during query parsing or execution.