Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 21, 2025!
Today, JMP QA teams in Beijing and Cary signed off on JMP 19 EA7! Installers are already pushed to MyJMP and product management will be notifying customers of their availability Monday afternoon. We are looking forward to getting some more feedback on recent JMP 19 updates!
Mia Stephens noted that having the Friday after the freeze available to focus on feature page updates helped speed up the process of identifying items that were “ready to test” for EA7. Of course, there is no need to wait until after an EA freeze to make feature page updates. You can work with the product manager you’re partnering with to update feature pages throughout each EA cycle as items are completed.
Thanks very much to JMP Life Sciences developer Luciano Silva for demoing his new JMP Pro 19 Marker Admixture platform at this Thursday’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. Also at the meeting, John Sall also spoke in honor of Russ Wolfinger’s 35th anniversary at SAS and JMP. With his trademark boundless enthusiasm, Russ commented that even after 35 years, he finds himself excited to start work each morning as he continues to learn and develop new code. Congratulations, Russ, on reaching this milestone!
We have a few topics already on the Teams calendar for upcoming dev demos and there are even more upcoming topics planned on the JMP Dev Meeting Volunteer Schedule. If you’d like to demo at a future session in March or April, please sign up on that page.
Today is JMP 18.2 Security Freeze. Thanks to everyone for working to get our scans to a clean state in preparation for final installer candidates for all products being generated next week! In addition, the new JMP 18.2.1 track had a few bug fix integrations this week as teams continue to identify critical security fixes and customer reported issues that need to be resolved for 18.X.
Thanks also to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases for this week with crashes selected!
Beta and crash report for the week of Feb 21 2025 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.2 Security Freeze – 2/21/25 ß TODAY
- JMP 18.2 Final Image Candidate – 2/24/25
- JMP 18.2 QA Signoff – 3/13/25
- JMP 18.2 Release in MyJMP - 3/18/25
- JMP 19 EA8 Freeze – 4/10/25
- JMP 19 EA9 Freeze – 6/5/25
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Finished up EA7 installer testing, Confluence page updates and video for Tabulate changes. Evan M. provided some action recording scripting for tags, so I was able to start using Workflow builder to open a few of my tables with tags, edit them, save them to a workflow and rerun it. After creating several such workflows on Mac and pushing to P4, I uncovered a new crash issue on windows. Also thinking about a possible download of USDA or Gov data to use for a data table demo later in March. The columns panel UI has been changing a bit more – so EA8 will have another view like this:
- Mike M: Found XML mismatch in 18.1 Help files… Thanks to Chris Barrett for figuring this out and fixing so quickly. Lots of churn with image tests crashing on new VM. Worked with John Powell to isolate some HTML bugs with text annotation, spacer box fills, and a process screening “tab page” workaround for images. Also thanks to Evan for looking at the Data Table partial draw issue (new bug opened).
- Nick H: Worked on updating our JSL scripts to work with the updated Jira Search, fixed a DNC in Functions/testColFunctions19, and continued work on a number of 19 bug and story verifications. Also found a bug with script editor coloring related to preceding lines containing ‘::’.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 19 EA 7 testing with a variety of configurations, JIRA verifications and updated status of several outstanding items, investigated JMP 19 EA 6 cases, and attended meeting for adding support in JMP 19 for authorization during the grace period.
- Audrey: EA7 testing, Implementing more automated scripts for our installer testing, preparing for 18.2 final validation which begins next week.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh: Preparing for JMP Live 18.2.0 Installer Testing. Focused JMP Live Testing on the Add-in Manager. Assisted Jim Borek with a scripting alternative to $HOSTNAME, now that we have clear aliases for the build machines. Built a JMP Live 19.0 Server for Bryan Boone to test Snowflake integration—this will serve as a temporary solution while we wait for IT to add our AWS IP addresses to the appropriate security group
- Anna: Continuing testing of transform column fixes. Creating new reports for JMP 19 New Features. Creating reports with data tables that use new tags, filters, etc. Investigating Confluence bug with pasting pathnames.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dan S: Data Filter search in categorical filter no longer clears selection - use Ctrl-click to add to selection. Looking at some dark mode issues. Fix for host controls and a crash in the property panel. Updates to the Date/Data Table on Output preferences to improve sizing and make sure they are removed when platform closes.
- Morgan: Reworked script editor/notebook preferences, reworked notebook sizing, and done some fixing for script editors deciding not to redraw occasionally.
- Evan: Added action recording for Column Tags. Rework of Column Filtering UI (mostly done). Looking into font sizing consistency between Mac/Win/Live.
- Dave B: Cleaned up the add in status dialog. Worked with Nick R to speed up jmprunner image testing.
- Xan: Bugs: legends, multiple-response, histogram binwidth and 18.2.1 marker label crash
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: The battle to subdue the sample size explorer bugs continued! I think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel
. I also helped revise a paper I’m co-authoring for Quality Engineering and am nearing completion on a model for the student working on the accelerated test.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl:
- More work on IME text entry. Various host control updates: Increased scrollbar hit test area. Combo box was not showing items added after initial dropdown. Adjusted Filter Field background color. Button and Panel display measurement tweaks. Add 18.2 Student Edition detection to Install Checker. Removed unnecessary copyright string from Call DLL sample code. Icon updates.
- Updated libxml2 to v2.13.6 for security fixes just under the wire for 18.2. Started removing the need to ship Telerik DLLs with our install as they can show in security scans but for features we do not use. I will move only the few classes we depend upon into jmpcs.dll. More sizing changes to panel display to grow when the title is wider than the content. Discussion and review of host fixes to properly handle spacebar in keystroke callback in the dedicated text box. Thanks to David White for finding and pushing the fix. Discussion and review of display box capture fixes for default appearance with Dan Schikore.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Completed work on JMPHTML-1374 (Plots are static when legend positions use 'Inside Left' or 'Inside Right'); currently in code review. Fixed bug related to JMPHTML-2123 where labels in HTML did not properly limit decimal places if the number of decimal places was not specified in JMP. Working on preparations for the JMP 19.0 Interactive HTML Features demo next Thursday.
- John Powell: Updated Interactive HTML publishing to inject the current copyright string on the fly so it won’t need to be updated manually anymore (JMPHTML-14365). Implemented special handling for Process Screening reports with local data filters on JMP Live (JMP-24553). Fixed an issue when graphs with colored markers are published to JMP Live in an unexpected way which reduces functionality (WEBJMP-8489). Updated confluence pages for EA7. Working with marketing on a project for JMP Reunion. Completed Security Training. Began preparing for the upcoming JMP Dev Demo.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (fixed some bugs, merged in Warnings List on Home page, added new table/column/chart specific count of open warnings, cleaned up Jira a bit, talked with Susan Conaghan about documentation). Updated some third party packages.
- Adrianna: Working on the JMP Live add-in manager, which will make installing and using add-ins on JMP Live easier.
Statistics
- John Sall
- In Response Screening, improve the performance of Subgroups. a subgroup benchmark resulting in 315,489 tests over 6210 rows and 135,608 subgroup variables went from 59 seconds to 44 seconds; it is 17 seconds on my new M4 laptop to demo at Discovery (JMP-25005).
- In Explore Outliers, fix row selection behavior when the table is a Summary or non-subset derived table (JMP-24947).
- In Fit Response Screening - if you save Effect Tests it will transfer RowState behavior to the new data table (JMP-24916).
- In Nonlinear, add prediction intervals to Profiler (JMP-24514).
- Annie: Focused on fixing issues related to new features I’ve added to new features I’ve added to Control Chart Builder (Jiras: JMP-25025, JMP-24994, JMP-24827, JMP-24929, JMP-8367, JMP-24318, JMP-24091, & JMP-23288).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Started making updates to Recurrence platform documentation in response to multiple changes made in 19 for handling adverse events. Continued string consolidation work. Started Q1 conversations with my team.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Design Explorer, adding more tests for designs with linear constraints. Investigating performance issues. Preparing presentation with Mark on using covering arrays for unit testing. Cleaning unit tests and updating usability study tool based on feedback from Irene.
- Mark: Attended the online training for the new OTL and entered my saved time data. Explored and tested the Bayesian Optimization platform. Practiced the presentation about using covering arrays in unit test scripts with Jacob.
- Tonya: Testing all of the recent CCB changes and CCB launches from Process Screening.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: JMP Clinical 19.0 Jiras, security updates at 18.2.0 and 18.2.1, and JSL support for other members of the team
- Richard: Paper on AE Event aggregation published in Drug Safety. Free read available here. Work on Subgroup Screening Complete. Will schedule a JMP Dev demo in near future.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Worked on reviewing and providing feedback on e-mail/SMS system for JMP Live, user string review for JMP Live, feedback on refresh token UI for JMP Live, design issues related to JMP Live theme for HTML, creating HTML scripts and lab launcher on AWS for JMP Lab at Discovery Summit, and logistics associated with lab machine setup.
Technical Support and Engagement
Development Operations
- Melanie:
- Localization: Analyzed and reported Korean JSL Conflicts for 19.0 Handoff 1 strings that have been returned. Ran Stringbot for Builtins (thanks to Caleb and Jacob for some corrections!) for estimates for 19.0 project planning.
- Copyrights: Communicated with Audrey and Ericka for some clarifications and answers to questions. It’s a sometimes-sticky situation! Brought in John Schroedl to discuss a different way to design and manage copyrights on the splash screen. (Thanks to Audrey, Ericka, and John Schroedl!)
- Documentation/Localization: Changed the output name for PDFs from the MIF-PDF automated jobs to the web-friendly filenames. Almost all are finished – the three remaining should be finished next week.
- General DevOps: Continuing to monitor Unit Test automation. Thanks to Nick Ruva and Jim – these have been very stable this week! Beginning to plan for migration of Stringbot for Sample Data and Builtins (low priority for now).
- Enjoyed the snow, from the inside of my house!
- Bob H: Created scripts and process for 18.2.1 Windows installers. Clean up of installer validation scripts to prepare for 18.2.0. Work with Bryan Fricke on installer splash screens for 19. Worked with Hunter on Student Edition testing. Worked with John Schroedl on InstallChecker modifications. Install building, testing, release of EA 7.
- Jim: Multiple JMP 19.0 EA #7 rebuilds; closed many JMPTOOL JIRA tickets; processed ASAN unit test output, resulting in several JIRA tickets; updated Mac operating system on a handful of company machines; Perforce integrations for the EA, 18.2 and 18.2.1 branches.
- Myron: Migrating telemetry data from jmptool.na.sas.com/MySQL to jmptoolprod.dev.jmp.com/PostgreSQL, some of which is tracked in JMPTOOL-1497. Also working on other database migrations a little (test and crash database).
- Shannon C: Worked with developers and testers on several 18.2.1 and 19.0 mystery crashes. Reviewed timeouts, crashes and DNCs in nightly streams and entered a few Jira issues – thanks to testers for the quick fixes!
Localization
- Allison: Worked on preparing the kit for handoff 1 of 19.0 JMP Live UI and Keycloak strings and sent the packages to vendors for localization; reported bugs on our Localization Dashboard-Jira integration automated processes; researched on queries from translation team about 19.0 Portable UI strings and communicated with developers; looked through the training documents for OTL Redwood; completed training courses on Code of Ethics and Protecting Privacy.
- Krzysztof: Finished the setup of automated MT translations of Marketplace descriptions and review environment. Continuing setting up the FrameMaker + Fm2Dita on an AWS machine. Testing new L10N automation features. Tuning up test projects for continuous word count generation.
- Sohail: Continued work on keyword dataset creation and resolved encoding error with database. Attended UCSD GenAI Summit 2025, talks ranging from Agentic AI systems to LLM security and interpretability.
- Sandy: Continued testing and refinement of new string return process program. Verified some project creation dashboard functions.
- Howard: Jira integration use case study for project revision. Review Jenkins job to reflect PDF renaming. Bug fixes.
Documentation
- Qiana: Continued working on sample data tables. Worked with Aaron and team on the new headers for help on jmp.com. Worked with the SAS Help Desk to get the Mac min up and running for remote connections. Completed ACT-now training. Project planning and coordination.
- Susan C: Reviewing DJ chapters in Oxygen. Working on JMP Live control chart triage new content. Working on UI strings from January for 19. Planning for 18.2.1 RNs. Completed ACT-now training. Enrolled in AI in tech writing course.
- Devon: Reviewing screenshot and script updates from Ying in L10N, beginning to write Column Filtering and Data Connector documentation for 19.0.
- Khawar: JMP-24261 - Edited and updated the scripts. Oxygen callout images - Updated the already-created images based on the guidelines. Finished compliance trainings.
- Chris: Republished 18.1 help after Mike found an error. Worked on Paul’s Python/R documentation. Implemented the new headers in the 19.0 help build.
Note from Shannon
Thanks very much to Dan Valente for sharing this perfectly punny funny! Hope you all enjoy a relaxing weekend! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
