Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 13, 2024!
JMP 18.2 is planned to freeze next Friday, 12/20/24. We have had a handful of approval requests so far this week but work in this track seems largely wrapped up! Please continue to triage your lists of items with planned version = 18.2 and remove 18.2 if you know you’re not going to get to that item for this release. We’ll have an 18.2.1 and 18.2.2 for third party security fixes and any showstoppers that surface after 18.2 approval mode is over.
JMP 19 EA5 was built and rebuilt earlier in the week and testing of the installer candidates looks good so far. QA plans to sign off early next week if all goes well. Thank you for all the updates to feature pages! Customers will have plenty to test, and we’ll be creating a set of JMP 19 EA6 installers in mid-January where additional features will be highlighted.
Thanks to Xan Gregg for presenting at this week’s JMP dev meeting on work he’s been doing in JMP 19 with dynamic transform columns (aka “comfy transforms” :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:) and the much-requested line/arrow graphs. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Also, at last week’s meeting, Paul Spychala presented on JMP Live Profilers and Fit to Window. If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here showing how the interactive HTML team continues to add support for profilers and improve performance for JMP 19!
John Sall has offered to demo JMP 19 updates to support environmental monitoring analysis in Process Screening at next week’s meeting. If you’d like to do a dev demo in the new year, please sign up on the JMP Dev Volunteer schedule here.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the latest Atlassian news! You can contact her or any of the other JMP Atlassian admins with questions. Also check out our JMP Atlassian Q&A Teams channel, where this and other Atlassian information will continue to be shared.
On December 10, Atlassian rolled out changes to our Jira and Confluence Cloud sites. A list of relevant changes along with highlighted details and documentation can be found here.
The changes include:
- New API tokens will now have a one-year expiry
- Jira issue menu changes for linking issues, adding attachments, and getting to marketplace apps
- Calculations as well as numbered entries added to Confluence databases!
- New toolbar for bulk actions in the backlog or issue list
- and more!
Thanks also to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/Crash cases with crashes selected!
Beta/crash report for the week of 12/13/2024 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.2 Code Freeze – 12/20/24
- JMP 18.1.2 Security Freeze – 1/3/25
- JMP 18.1.2 Final Image Candidate – ~1/7/25
- JMP 18.1.2 QA Signoff – 1/16/25
- JMP 18.1.2 Release in MyJMP – 1/21/25
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: The product marketing team posted an inside JMP article giving some updates on the JMP Marketplace. This article talks about the featured extension of the month (The Materials Informatics Toolkit), JMP Marketplace stats, and some promotional items that can be used to continue to spread the word about the marketplace. Here is the link to the InsideJMP article!
- Dan V: Published the 2024 Product Management Readout a year-end summary of the key initiatives the Product Management team took in 2024, process improvements, and highlights of strategic efforts. This annual readout ensures the entire organization knows what the PM team is focused on, driving transparency and linked goals.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: Several of us from the Support teams met in person this week and attended the pot luck on Wednesday. As usual, it was so good. Thank you to all who shared their talents! Below are the usual graphs for case volume as well as topics for both Tech Support and Engagement. Here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by Support for the last 14 days.
Technical Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last week:
Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Melanie: Ate too much excellent food at the JMP Winter Pot Luck! Unit Tests - Monitoring new parallel runs for daily unit tests (thanks Nick Ruva – so cool!) Doc and Help - Writing up project plan for automating JMP Live Help generation and deployment with Shannon Leslie (IP). Testing new MIF-PDF vm (JMPDOC-2286: Update MIF-PDF VM) 18.2/18.1.2 - Tracking software copyright updates with Audrey Shull. JMPTOOL-1252: Update software copyright information (18.2) and JMPTOOL-1411] Update software copyright information (18.1.2) Jira: Tested using a new field to bulk import issues with a Smart Checklist. (JIRAHELP-166: Add a new field named Checklists so that bulk import from CSV will also import Smart Checklists). Worked with Audrey Shull on Jira Error Dashboard, used to ensure data integrity for Jira tickets. Stringbot: Looking at a UTF-8 encoding issue with Myron, Michael Hecht, and others. (JMPTOOL-1438: StringBot is mangling extracted strings with non-ASCII Unicode characters). Interesting Jira of the Week: JMP-24129: Crash in 3d Scatterplot caused by unusual font.
- Shannon L: Helping with clean-up of JMP 18.2 Jira issues still marked as planned for 18.2. Attended several Oxygen meetings this week and JMP and JMP Live security vulnerability reviews. Curated list of Atlassian December release changes affecting our Jira and Confluence site, for users and for admins. Started on POC implementation of issue-level security in our Jira instance. Continued progress on documentation for end-of-cycle security/registration tasks and JMP development processes. User assistance with Jira best practices.
- Jim: Branched and built JMP 19 EA #5; kudos to Michael Hecht for helping to pinpoint the Packages option needed in order to notarize the mac EA disk image file; reported multiple assertion failures from the most recent WinOS JMP Pro 19 Debug build; thanks to Nick Ruva for his assistance in getting the Jenkins unit test project working with parallelization for Windows Server 2025; Perforce support.
- Shannon C: Attended inclusion speaker presentation. Investigated a few recent crashes and reviewed existing UT failures and UT Jira issues. Discussions and meetings about ongoing DevOps group work. Reviewed and closed out 2024 goals.
- Bob: Created and tested Windows installers EA5 for JMP, JMP Pro, and JMP Clinical. Updated JMP 19 Student Edition - Windows installer to include updated Student add-in.
- Myron: Worked on JMPTOOL-1438: stringbot mangling extracted strings and the connected utf8/ANSI/Perforce discussions.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Prepared the Portable UI 19.0 translation project. Demoed a proposal for a JMP Store localization process. Wrapping up finished projects: Marketplace, Menu Description Cards, and Release Notes. Testing the new Commit job for JMP UI. Testing new automation features in our workflow and reporting bugs. Updating JMP Clinical localization project. Enhancing memoQ filter and alignment process for Oxygen xml files.
- Allison: Sent handoff 1 of 19.0 Portable UI strings to translators for localization. Created 18.1 localized add-ins and screenshots and delivered to Kristen for uploading to Marketplace. Communicated with reviewers about invoices and quotes; tested out Localization Dashboard and Jira integration automation and reported feedback; labeled all relevant .fm and image files for JA in P4 and handed off to Doc team for building localized JMP Online Help.
- Sohail: Continued scoring automation for LLM Term Extraction evaluation and began work for iterative improvement of LM JSL output. Working on adding JSL coding standards and rules as context for JSL generation.
- Howard: Bug fixes. Dashboard Jira integration – Translation Push, Project Close.
- Trish: Led the monthly Doc/Loc team meeting; planning handoffs for v19.0.
- Sandy: Continued work on commit job enhancements.
Documentation
- Susan C: Jira work - built in time for Jill to edit the 18.2 RNs. Working on dates in 19.0 Jiras for HTML5 & JMP Live/Public. Set up meeting with Alex L to discuss a request for new install documentation for the JMP Live Updater. Worked on Q4 goals, had meeting with Qiana and closed/moved out goals for this year. Retrospective JMP Live fixes - closed 2 Jiras, still working on 3. Taking over UI string work for December from Chris. Watching JMP Live Demo for 19.0 features. Learned about some Python changes, so working with Aaron & Devon to meet and discuss. Met with Trish & the localization team for our monthly meeting. I'll be running this next year, thanks Trish for running them this year!
- Khawar: Oxygen - Discussed the callout examples page with Chris; worked on one multiple images example; added the new EG images to Perforce. Sample index - Completed two Confluence pages by populating the suggested edits/comments column and got feedback from Qiana; working on the third page.
- Qiana: Continued working on the JMP 18.2 Release Notes. Worked on JMP 19.0 sample data work. Reviewed Khawar’s Sample Index update suggestions. Met with Dan, Trish, and Shannon L. to discuss JMP Marketplace terminology and editing. Project planning and coordination.
- ChrisB: String reviews. Testing translated help builds on AWS machine. Created page so we can discuss callout design. Worked on missing images in translated JMPLive help. Investigation on how to use DITA attributes to control output.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Handled multiple TS tracks, still on JMP19EA4 – reporting either known issues, crashes or new things and filed JIRA’s. Worked on the new data table icons for hide, tags, refresh table filtering that developer added prior to the EA5; working on JMP19EA5 installer testing. Verified a number of JIRA’s that developer pushed to JMP 18.2 for Tabulate.
- Hunter: JMP 19 EA 5 testing, responded to JMP 19 EA 4 cases, JIRA verifications. Investigated crash when closing JMP Clinical from profiler report created from the AddIn for Excel. Tested several cases with expected warning and license expiration messages when running JSL scripts to try to replicate a CRP.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dan S: JMP 19 updates for axis scripting to ensure that increment & interval are saved together. Worked with Evan on a fix for SendToReport in both 18.2 and 19. Integrated fix for Group Platform (By) for Partition and some other Fit platforms. Looking at scripting options for FDE multiple-Y, and continuing to work on Data Filter search updates.
- Ernest: Continuing work on refactoring column property editing and handling. One goal is to make properties non-modifiable outside of a tightly controlled process, so I’ve made many changes throughout the codebase. Let me know if you have questions or if I have broken anything.
- Evan: Delivered new column filtering for the Data Table in EA5. New properties for Splitter Box styling. More investigation of DirectWrite and Gdi+ interop.
- Morgan: Fixed some bugs with Notebooks, code folding, and script editor preferences, and did some work on a “Go To Definition” edit command in script editor.
- Xan: EA5 videos and dynamic transform columns.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Finalized work on converting the one sample interval explorers (mean, proportions, and variance) as well as some additional work on the two sample explorers (almost ready to show!). I also attended a special 75th anniversary conference for the Virginia Tech statistics department. Lots of good talks and discussion about the future of statistics. And lots of highlights of JMP as well!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will: Developed an additional data connector to be bundled with the OneDrive data connector that grants users access to their SharePoint site list data. This was a direct request from a customer at Discovery. Got the SharePoint and OneDrive add-in ready for EA5 and deployment on the JMP Marketplace. Minor updates to the Data Connector editor UI for a better user experience.
- John Schroedl: Further UI modernization and dark mode fixes. One notable change is the addition of the window icon as an overlay on data table thumbnails. Fixed an issue where it was possible to have a tooltip shown for a recently-closed window. Fixed the background of our auto-hide menu area. Splash screen updates for copyright dates.
- Paul N: Security update of JMP 18.2 Python to 3.11.11 on macOS and Windows. Security update of JMP 19.0 libcurl to version 8.11.1, Security update was released 11 Dec 2024.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Created a 3rd party software update request to update three.js to a version (r148, Thanks Michael G.) that supported InstancedMesh and doesn’t trigger a security exception on JMP Live (JMPHTML-14258).
- Tested Interactive HTML Scatterplot 3D code for compatibility with version r148 of three.js and updated code to fix all issues found.
- Worked on implementing local clipping (clipping some 3D objects but not all) for Interactive HTML version of Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-14275).
- Worked with Praveena on supporting many-to-one marker selection in Alarm Graphs in the Interactive HTML version of Process Screening platform.
- Helped Elise Batchev with a graph using Needle bar style and Cumulative Sum statistic that is not interactive on JMP Live.
- Paul Spychala: I have been working on Fit to Window issues and also added the ability to turn the feature on or off via a menu item inside HTML/JMPLive (JMPHTML-14219).
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (conducted a usability study with Mia Stephens, presented during JMP Live iteration demo, project update to development managers and Dieter, sent updates for Invention Disclosure Form to Dwight Thompson, minor refactoring, investigation of edge cases and performance). Upgraded a third-party package.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Implemented an option within Mixed and GLMM to allow users to change to containment degrees of freedom (the SAS PROC default) from Kenward-Roger DFs (the JMP mixed models default) – JMP-23504. This option isn’t recommended, as it’s been shown that KR provides better Type I error control, etc, but there are a couple use cases from JMP users that make it useful. In checking all of the report options that had to be updated for the change of DFs, found a couple other bugs that are actually long-standing, but probably (hopefully!!) not common. Fixed one of those already related to the conditional profilers and DOE generated blocking terms – JMP-24103.
- Laura C-S: Fixed two bugs with the new specific indirect effects feature and made a feature page for it. Circled back to the new MIIV-2SLS estimator, as I made UI changes recommended by Ken Bollen. Worked on SPSP workshop with Haley.
- John Sall: Continued work in Process Screening for Environmental Monitoring (JMP-23533, JMP-24030).
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Worked on updating some older material in the distribution chapter.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Explored how Easy DOE supports Workflow Builder with Jacob. I prepared a presentation about the most recent usability study for Easy DOE for JMP Stat Dev with Jacob. I am building an add-in that emulates the IndPenSim 2 simulator to support Bayesian optimization development.
- Jacob: Adding tests for DSDs in Design Explorer, focusing on cases with categorical factors. Testing Easy DOE, investigating with Mark Bailey how DOE platforms are supported with Workflow Builder. Verifying Jira tickets
Preparing Easy DOE usability study results presentation with Mark Bailey.
- Tonya: Working on updating CCB unit tests due to Annie’s recent sorting changes.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Lots of bug fixing and triaging and getting 18.1.2 and 18.2 wrapped up!
Note from Shannon
It was nice to see so many Cary colleagues at the JMP Winter potluck Wednesday! I enjoyed the coffee cart and trying so many (way too many!) of your delicious creations and treats. Thanks very much to Robin Betters, Beth Evans, and all the other organizers and helpers. Hope you all have a great weekend!
