Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 18, 2025!
We have now reached our freeze for JMP 19 EA8. Please update the Motivation and Summary section of your feature pages as soon as possible. Also, please review any open items you own that are currently on the JMP 19 Late Features page and move completed items into the Completed section. In many cases, we are using Epics on the Late Features page to track when late projects are complete. Bugs do not need to be linked to these feature epics since they can be addressed later in the cycle, so please feel free to disassociate incomplete bugs from epics if all Story items are closed out.
As JMP 19 feature work wraps up and we begin to look towards JMP 20, please sign up on the JMP Dev Meeting Volunteer Schedule page if you’re interested in presenting at a meeting in the next few months! Next week, Alex Taylor and other JMP Live team members will share about JMP Live’s transition to Git.
As some of you may already know, JMP 19 is planned to run in compatibility mode on machines with new Windows ARM processors. JMP development is working towards the goal of JMP working natively in Windows ARM environments for JMP 20 as more of the libraries we require become supported in this environment. Thanks to John Schroedl for sharing progress made in this area this week!
I was able to get the very first instance of a JMP build for ARM running. Thanks to help from a script Paul Nelson created I was able to use Python as well! Some things are disabled such as OpenBLAS, of course, but it's progress!
Finally, thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the details on the April 7 Atlassian product changes for Jira/Confluence:
On April 7, 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:
- Watch items in content tree within a Confluence Space
- Deprecation of JQL search/Evaluate expression endpoints (starting May 1)
- Configure columns view of child issues in parent
Contact Shannon Leslie or any of the other JMP Atlassian admins with questions.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19 Review Mode – 5/23/25
- JMP 19 EA9 Freeze – 6/5/25
- JMP 19 Approval Mode – 6/13/25
- JMP 19 Security Freeze - 8/15/25
- JMP 19 Final Image Candidate – 8/18/25
- JMP 19 QA Signoff – 9/11/25
- JMP 19 posted to MyJMP – 9/16/25
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Dan S: Continuing to triage and fix Save Scripts in English bugs. Fixed issues with display of combo boxes in the property panel in non-English languages. Fixed stretching of the Filter View panel in data tables and updated the popup menu for the Filter View. Fixed crashes with drag-and-drop within a Group Platform and using Recall in the Contour Plot dialog.
- Evan: Rewrote the JMP Telemetry Explorer Add-In. Wrote first version of Mimic TestRunner for interactive testing (see //depot/main/test/Mimic/RunMimicTests.jsl). Filing bugs found during these two efforts.
- Xan: GB Line of Fit shows binomial confidence intervals if response is categorical with 2 levels; performance issue for preEval vs formulas with strings; crash work.
- Dave B: Add-in status dialog work. Get Picture bug fixes. Recreated two anonymous user crashes. Fixed a bug on the Mac that caused 3d graphs to not scroll correctly.
DOE and Reliability
- Irene: Code review with Ryan and Joseph on BayesFLo implementation in JMP; submitted BayesFLo yesterday for EA8.
- Caleb: Finalized some string updates for the sample size explorers and started work on the remaining CSALT bugs.
- Mark: Continued testing the Bayesian Optimization platform.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul N:
- Security updates of Python.
- JMP 19 from 3.13.2 to 3.13.2.
- Compile 3.11.12 from source – Universal build on macOS, x86_64 build on Windows. Python 3.11.x is in security fix only maintenance mode, which means there are no binary installers and we must compile from source.
- JMP 18 from 3.11.11 to 3.11.12.
- Working with John Schroedl to take my Python update scripts and rewrite in support of Windows ARM64 Python.
- With which he got ARM64 build of JMP 19 up and running with Python support.
- JIRAs triaged and handed off for testing.
- JMP-25544 – string in Excel profiler change JMP’s -> JMP
- JMP-25783 – trigger error if JSL Python Reset ( ) is given a parameter, it takes none.
- JMP-24717 – fixed in some prior change.
- JMP-24183 – fixed in some prior change – I18N in scripting index.
- JMP-24402 – Strings for example drop down were incorrectly marked as NOTRANS
- John Schroedl: Working on project and source changes in pursuit of a Windows arm64 native build. Call with MS App Assure for ARM tech support. Thanks to Paul for updating Python scripts to handle x64/arm64 split. Investigated crash reports. Call related to Intel auth plans.
Interactive HTML
- Paul Spychala: These last few weeks have been spent polishing features and bug fixes for HTML and JMPLive exports
- John Powell:
- Interactive HTML Scatterplot 3D work:
- Improved marker shape rendering using 3D drawing rather than textures(JMPHTML-14479).
- Added support for character and unicode marker shapes (JMPHTML-14486).
- Added lit/shaded rendering of marker shapes in high marker quality marker mode(JMPHTML-14496).
- Improved DOT marker shape using a custom shader(JMPHTML-14501).
- Reported some JMP issues:
- Principal Components loses state of Label variables checkbox when Redoing Analysis (JMP-25848).
- Transparency setting ignored for character marker shapes in Scatterplot 3D(JMP-25834).
- Scatterplot 3D draws some grid lines black on black walls(JMP-25870).
- Responded to a JMP User Community Post with a work-around for unsupported Group Levels In View.
- Discussion about publishing ‘out of sync’ reports(WEBJMP-9857).
- Discussed analyzing Jira story points with Praveena and Shannon Leslie.
- Discussed high-level goals for JMP 20 new features with Dieter Praveena and Paul Spychala.
- Submitted an abstract for JMP Discovery Summit 2025 in Austin, TX.
- Praveena: John and I met with Shannon Leslie to discuss how to tailor Jira reports to align with our team's workflow. Also Worked with Paul Spychala to submit an abstract for Discovery in Austin and worked on the following Jiras:
JMP Live
- Aurora: Extended the ability to search for users by login name. Bug fixing - fixed several mildly broken skipped tests, better error message for publishing huge number of warnings, standardized notification email styling, fixed broken CLI tool, etc. Updated third party packages. Created confluence article "How to move a very large file to/from a JMP Live server". Made significant updates to New Feature page "New in 19.0: Control Chart Triage".
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Answered emails with SEM questions. Rewrote much of the equality constraints’ code in MIIV-2SLS to make it less crash and bug prone. Met with Taylor to discuss a potential collaboration using instrumental variables in SEM. Reviewed a manuscript that I’m co-authoring with folks at UNC using our SEM platform.
- Elizabeth: Bug investigations and fixes. Thanks to John Schroedl for helping with a non-informative crash stack investigation!
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed documentation updates in advance of the EA8 help build; discussed 2025 goals with team members; reviewed strings; planning for our summer student’s start date next month.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Working on tests for set cover(). Testing Easy DOE simulate responses updates for EA8. Investigating performance issues. Verifying tickets and cleaning unit tests.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Building additional functionality into IQ/OQ scripts for one-click generation of PDF/RTF with signature page (Thanks to Jeff Perkinson for starting initial JSL script!). Triaged issues with AE Narratives report for Amgen and provided Nora’s fixes as patch to 18.1.2 install so they can assess prior to the 18.2.1 installer. Researching mods to Snyk script for scanning Python packages for security vulnerabilities. JMP Clinical 19 bugs and one last 18.2.1 bug.
- Richard: Creating a confluence page of videos for new clinical features – here’s the link: Clinical Feature Videos.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Continued to work on icons and updated the splash screen for JMP Pro for JMP Live. Also, I coordinated with Sarah Sylvestre on preparing to do some usability work for our Salesforce setup.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Gary: Happy Friday! After a busy week prior at Reunion, the Support teams were back assisting customers with a wide range of inquiries. 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:
- Testing new sample data string process and ensuring tables are ready for localization by Monday. Thanks to Myron, Mandy, Qiana, Trish, and Krzysztof for coordination of effort!
- Gave Qiana a quick overview of editing strings in Visual Studio. Last week, gave documentation and localization team members a demonstration of bulk importing Jira issues from a CSV file for managing complex projects.
- Met Ericka Pirozzi (JMP legal team) last week and coordinated about a new JMP Disclaimer for JSL Builtins.
- Took part in some very productive meetings during the JMP Reunion.
- Learned how to manage the EA Sprint Jira process for JMP 19. Thanks, Shannon L!
- Finished my abstract for Discovery Summit in the fall. Thanks to Mandy, Shannon C, and Audrey for feedback!
- Shannon L: Planning follow-up tasks from the technical meetings we held last week. Continuing to help with clean-up of JMP 19 stories. Working on the Atlassian renewal process with Procurement. Doing some site cleanup for our Jira instance. Helping with the security vulnerability reviews for 18.2.1, planning. Working on project plans for the Marketplace monetization project with Kristen. Weekly technical meetings.
- Bob: Finishing up coordination for testing and approval of Beyond Trust fix to allow JMP Windows installers to properly update registry. Updated Windows 18.2.1 installers from Python 13.11.11 to 13.11.12. Updated installer 19 code to use updated Python folder organization in Perforce.
- Shannon C: Investigated numerous JMP 19, JMP 18.1.X and JMP 18.2.X crashes and entered JMPTEST Jira issues for novel crashes. Thanks to many people including Dave Barbour, Dan Schikore, Jacob Rhyne, Ernest Pasour and Mandy Chambers for helping replicate several issues!
Localization
- Ying: Finished checking EN screenshot scripts for DJ and retaking screenshots if needed (JMPLOCTOOL-735). Six Jira bugs opened for the Documentation team to correct certain screenshot scripts. Opened a Jira bug for function (JMP-25873). Beginning to check EN screenshot scripts for EG and retaking screenshots if needed (JMPLOCTOOL-736). One chapter has been completed and one Jira bug opened for the Documentation team to correct certain screenshot scripts.
- Krzysztof: Prepared and introduced new coding guidelines and standards for the L10N tech group (pull requests and code comments). Testing the process of converting fm files into DITA xml based on the script from the Doc team. Pushing updates to JMP Live translations. Updating memoQ templates.
- Allison: Communicated with translators and developers on translation queries we received for 19.0 Portable UI strings; fixed translation issues reported by QA team on JMP Live strings; worked with Howard on testing the jenkins jobs for copying localized JMP Doc Library pdfs and Title page pdfs to the designated folders in P4.
- Sohail: Set up, tested, and documented Bitbucket pull requests for team repo. Consolidated information learned from different teams about LLM projects during JMP Reunion into a confluence page.
- Howard: Worked on updates with Add-in Jenkins Job to automate translated PDFs to CreateDocLibrary. Worked on Dashboard activities progress feature.
- Trish: Updates to testing matrix information. Processing expenses from reunion. Triaged some translation queries. Did more research on 18.2 JA help bug.
Documentation
- Qiana: Completed sample data work for 19.0. Handoff of the sample data to L10N. Completed steps on Setting Up A Development PC in preparation for training with Melanie. Received training from Melanie on updating UI strings. Project planning and coordination.
- Khawar: Oxygen callouts: 2/3 of callout images for Using JMP done. JMP Preferences: Started updating Using JMP Preferences chapter. Working to get my authorization for Summer.
- Devon: Started developing a JSL syntax highlighting plugin for XML files, writing the various updates to Data Connectors for 19, reviewing edits in the Using JMP book.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Caught up on JIRAs, verifying fixes and adding tests. Found a few crashes while trying to resolve them and entered another crash from a user related to tags and properties. Worked on Data table filter views and tagging, Tabulate changes with tags added – hope to get more feedback on that one. Next week, will be verifying the EA8 JMP 19 for delivery and likely be making at least 2 EA videos for updates to the Data Grid/Filter views and Tags/Properties.
- Hunter: Completed verification of authorization items JMP-22660 and JMP-22400. Reported issue with terminated response codes being accepted (JMP-25770). Reported issue and tested cloud-side fix from Daniel P. for a “non-matching end tag encountered” error in log when applying downloaded response code files during offline authorization. Installed the BeyondTrust 25.2.40.0 update from the company portal on several Windows 10 and 11 devices and verified that JMP 18.x and 19.0 installations were properly registering components.
- Audrey: Intern planning, working with Steve on the JMP Live automation reporting that we do for JMP Live, Jira admin work.
Web Testing – Cary
- Anna:
- Tracking work being done by Adrianna, John P and Aa for JMP Live issue w/refreshing report published while out of sync w/data.
- Tested Scatterplot 3D functionality on desktop in preparation for testing John P and Paul S's new implementation in HTML5.
- Reported crash for Export Fit Least Squares report to HTML5 which John P has now fixed.
- Starting to test issue Dan S reported w/Platforms w/Groups not responding to data changes or supporting order-by.
- Testing Columns Switcher and Local Data Filter w/dynamic transform columns on desktop and in JMP Live.
- Reported issue that Xan has now fixed for chart area outline, labels and axes not drawn when no data returned by filter condition.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a great weekend! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
