Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 15, 2025!
With signoffs now complete, JMP 18.2.1 is planned to be released in MyJMP next Tuesday. You can download details on the bug fixes included in the release notes for 18.2.1 here. In addition, numerous third party library updates are included in 18.2.1. Over the last several release cycles, JMP has made great strides in scanning, reviewing and fixing third party libraries to meet the needs of security-conscious customers. By the way, many of these customers also scan our software products to catalog the third party components they include and identify any vulnerabilities. JMP plans to have have monthly security updates during the 19 cycle in an effort to further shorten the fix cycle for security vulnerabilities – stay tuned for more information as we move beyond 19.0.
JMP 19.0 bug fixes continue with only a few items remaining in the under development section of the JMP 19 Late features page. JMP 19 Code Review mode begins on 5/23/25. As a reminder, code pushes made after 5/23 need to include the name of the reviewer in the push description, in the Jira issue and in any approval requests sent after JMP 19 Code Approval mode begins on 6/13/25.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing these May Atlassian product changes, and April/May Atlassian customizations and improvements!
On May 12, 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:
- Improvements to Cloning in Jira - Nnw Clone child issues in Epics!
- Also Clone Comments, and change the Assignee and Reporter (if have permissions)
- Export up to 10,000 issues instead of max of 1,000 issues
- And more!
Also, in late April / early May, the Admin team rolled out some improvements to our Jira instance. A list of changes along with details and documentation can be found here.
The changes include:
- A new Jira plugin for Agile planning: Planning Poker Agility for Jira
- A new option for the Origin field: "JMP Information Security"
- And more!
Contact Shannon Leslie 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.
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
DOE and Reliability
- Ryan L: The JMP group did well at the recent set of elections for the ASA:
- Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES):
- Chair-Elect 2026: Michael Crotty
- Program Chair-Elect 2026: Ryan Lekivetz
- Secretary/Treasurer 2026-2027: Yeng Saanchi
- Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
- Secretary 2026-2027 Caleb King
- We also received a notice of allowance on a patent application:
Patent Application No. 18/933,070
Title: Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Adaptive Design Exploration and Model Management
Filed: 2024-10-31
Inventors: Caleb Bridges King; Peng Liu; Ryan Adam Lekivetz; Jacob Davis Rhyne; Rajneesh Rajneesh
- Caleb: Working on improving the consistency with saved files of the CSALT design platform. Preparing a talk for the annual meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, which I'll be attending at the end of the month after my vacation next week in Minneapolis. Helping with some initiatives we've laid out for ISEA, including the summit.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Added a Windows Specific preference to switch to "legacy" text handling for customers needing to use older IME and for error handling on very old versions of Windows 10. Worked with Morgan Gribbins to support triggering IME reconversion from the context menu. Added an assert for consistency with Mac to ensure that a modal dialog is not shown while processing an existing show() call. Pushed an update to browser control creation to use the older (bad airspace) mode for Quick Start and OAuth usages to avoid errors at startup on old editions of Windows 10. Dealing with Visual Studio update issues; JMP now builds cleanly using the new version. Crash investigations
Interactive HTML
- Praveena: Worked on numerous Jira issues
- JMPHTML-14445: Process Screening - The charts for selected items disappear when using a data filter in HTML5.
- JMPHTML-14446: Process Screening - The graph under 'Charts for Selected' disappears on desktop during HTML5 export if a local data filter is present.
- JMPHTML-14596: Process Screening - Charts for the selected outline node appear when a local data filter is applied.
- JMPHTML-14177 On Mac, in HTML5 reports, the Cmd key does not perform "add to selection"
- JMPHTML-14494 Process Screening: The selection on process summary table don't respond to Alarm Graph, Goal Plot, or Process Performance Graph when data filter is on
- JMPHTML-14598 Process Screening: Row in summary table does not respond to deselection for Marker on Alarm Graph
- JMPHTML-14375 Process Screening: Deselect a marker for a process on Process Performance Graph does not dismiss its control chart.
- JMPHTML-14580 Triage: Warning Information Panel no longer opens after pan axis
- JMPHTML-13832 'Triage' popup menu not accessible when excluding and including rows
- JMPHTML-2487 Stack command on HTML5 does not honor Axes on Left(1)
- Mike Stickles: Committed bug fix for JMPHTML-1407 (Legend setting on size role does not work on HTML5) after code review. Also fixed issue JMPHTML-14515 (SP3D: Legend text not visible in dark mode) and committed fix after code review. Did preliminary investigations on JMPHTML-13955 (CCB: HTML5 page doesn't load when using '\' on phase) and noted findings in the JIRA. Began work on fixing bug JMPHTML-577 (S1518749: Error intervals are missing color).
- John Powell: Fixed a crash when CellPlotBox is in a report with another plot using a different dataset (JMPHTML-14267). Made static content render in the current color mode with help from John Schroedl and Dan S. (JMPHTML-14606). Completed Q2 Check-in: Development Goals training. Reviewed Interactive HTML Help Document.
- Michael Senoyuit: Worked on some graphlet bugs and edge cases.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Bug fixing (notification to admin about comment mention). Adding requested restrictions on who can download control chart warning information. Met to discuss updates to control chart triage Invention Disclosure Form.
Statistics
- Annie: Continued to work on fixing Jira tickets in Cusum, EWMA & CCB. Specifically, Jira JMP-1873, Jira JMP-17716, Jira JMP-13271, Jira JMP-25778, Jira JMP-25916, and Jira JMP-26185.
- Elizabeth: Bug fixes (thanks, Fang Chen, for the thorough testing!) and continued work on nominal multinomial GLMMs.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed and updated many strings in the Bayesian Optimization platform in preparation for upcoming final string extraction for 19.0 translation; found out I was elected as Chair-Elect for the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences of ASA; documented some NFs in Parametric Survival.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Jacob and I discussed the expectations for submitting a case study to ISEA with Caleb. We began writing a draft of it this week. I attended an interview with the patent examiner for Bill's patent on a new choice design. Jacob and I brainstormed our presentation for the FTC. I virtually attended the "Stolen Sister" event sponsored by SAS D&I. I finished an explanation of measuring reflectance for Caleb and started a script for image analysis to obtain accurate reflectance data from the 3D printed clips using a smart phone camera.
Life Sciences Updates
- Richard: Wrote 7 blog posts. Outlined features for JMP Clinical 20.
- Wenjun: Attending CDISC board meeting and CDISC interchange.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Aside from customer cases, the Support teams are working with Salesforce development teams regarding some case issues and setting priorities. Engagement is clarifying and documenting team processes. Below are the graphs for case 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.
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Shannon L: Created full project plan for JMP Marketplace Monetization project launch. Curated list of Atlassian May release changes affecting our Jira and Confluence sites, as well as documenting our own configuration improvements. Worked with Product Management to scope and implement Jira improvements to assist in feature tracking. More discussions on monthly security release naming as well as ideas around version-less JMP and continuous feature releases (all pending further discussions). Weekly technical meetings including standing product security vulnerability reviews. Technical meetings with Snyk and Atlassian.
- Melanie: Completed work to handle automated processes and Jira issue components and fields for renaming the Genetics book to Life Sciences. (JMPTOOL-1594, JMPDOC-2368). Generated localized Sample Data Tables for 19.0; general QA on the tables; reported a bug against Value Labels; submitted final tables. (JMPLOC-7051, JMP-25193, JMP-26341) Added the updated Disclaimer and copyright code for JMP (provided by legal) to all Builtin JSL scripts. (JMPTOOL-1449) Checked JSL conflicts against Chinese and Korean returned portable ui strings for Handoff 2. (JMPLOC-6852, JMPLOC-6861) With Shannon Leslie, implemented Issue Level Security for the JMP Marketplace project. (JIRAHELP-194) Participated in conversations about naming conventions for monthly releases in the future. Learned about perforce labels. Thanks, Allison Liang! General process, branch, qa, question-answering across DevOps.
- Bob: Finished Windows installer validation file upload and confirmation (JMPWEB-1764). Modified Windows installer to hopefully correct a locked font issue during installation (JMP-26196). Modified Windows installer to disallow installations on the oldest Windows 10 - now JMP will only install on 1809 and above (JMP-26228). Modified Windows installer to add code allowing a custom menu file (admincust.jmpcust) to be added during installation (JMP-26373). Researched security issues to help improve installer experience.
- Jim: Multiple assertion failure and LEAKS JIRA tickets were verified as fixed for JMP Pro 19; JMP products and installers are being built nightly from the 18.2.2 Perforce branch; the Baseline/NIST unit test scripts are being run nightly for JMP Pro 18.2.2 on all localized WinOS and mac OS supported systems, with work for the full unit test suite runs ongoing; Perforce accounts (that I am aware of) were set up for summer interns.
- Myron: Spent more time on SQL Server to PostgreSQL conversions (Jenkins scripts, database, dashboard environment in dev). Also worked on a few other minor maintenance issues like updating 18.2.2 data for the web dashboard.
- Shannon C:
- Discussions on release numbering for monthly releases. Investigated customer crashes, entered and updated Jira issues. Looked into origin- prefix issues with help redirects that surfaced with the rollout of new jmp.com.
- Thanks to Lisa Grossman for publishing a new report for crashes by year and release to JMP Live!
- If you look at this graph, you can see the prominent bars for JMP 17.0 and 17.2 (abbreviated version below). Certainly the longer length of time that release has been in the field has an impact. But digging deeper, it’s apparent that many of the reports in JMP 17.0 resulted from two common causes:
- crashes impacting graphs/hover labels for certain cases (JMP-13682, JMP-18895 and related dups)
- a very difficult to debug issue (JMPTEST-464) which may have been resolved by JMP-23081, a Graph Builder drag and drop crash fixed in 18.2.
- Both managed except crashes above can be seen occurring in JMP when running in English and all our language variants.
- As JMP 17 use in the field has decreased and these prevalent issues were fixed or worked around, we have seen fewer crashes reported in 18.X releases.
- Although not shown in this graph, another trend is that many more crashes are now received anonymously than are sent through technical support. This is why I’ve been focusing on entering JMPTEST items under my Mystery Crash epic (JMPTEST-95) as a way to highlight groupings of matching anonymous crash stacks that lack clear replication cases and deserve further investigation by developers. Once they can be replicated, they are moved to the correct component in the JMP project.
Localization
- Allison: Finalized JA 19.0 Sample Data translations and handed off both ZH and JA to Melanie to build the tables; prepared 18.2.1 Release Notes translation project and handed off to JMP Japan for translation; I translated ZH 18.2.1 Release Notes; responded to translation queries on Sample Data and Portable UI strings; reviewed processes for localizing Quick Start to prepare for handoff of 19.0.
- Trish: Date planning for Help and Quick Start. Answering translation queries on portable UI strings. Discussions with Krzysztof about Marketplace description workflows & memoQweb. Stalking portable UI strings in prep for final handoff.
- Sandy: Continued testing and refinement of new string return process program for portable UI. Continued new return process development for sample data. Tested jobs that needed changes for renaming GA to LS.
- Ying: Created the final PDF of Release Notes 18.2.1 for ZH. Creating localized FrameMaker templates for V19. The JA templates have been completed.
- Howard: Tested/Adjusted Jenkins jobs related to GA renamed to LS. Bug fixes on some Dashboard issues. Finished Dashboard progress messages.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished up HTML5 updates sent for review (early). Working on 19.0 updates for JMP Live to UG (publishing), install help, and user help. Worked with Roger to get the latest 18.2.1 RN PDF published on our JMP documentation page on jmp.com. Thanks Roger! Planning for upcoming projects and proposing dates.
- Devon: JMP-23540: Added note to UG about Summary Table roles being supplied automatically to scripts, continued work on AspenTech and Python data connector updates, continued revising edits and screenshots, added list of web help publishing options to JMPDOC-2166.
- Khawar: Oxygen callouts - Discussed DJ, UG, CR, and DOE edits with Chris; finished JSG images. Updating images. JMP Preferences - Discussed Notebooks with Chris B.
- Qiana: Worked with Procurement to renew WebWorks software. Continued making updates to the JSG to replace SF Crime with NYC 311 Records. Project planning and coordination.
- Chris: Went through callout notes with Khawar, and reviewed his JSG callout images. Got the JMPLive/Public copy script up. Updated a key in the 18.2 helpmap. Working on Python doc.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy:
- Worked on Columns Manager issue where Ernest added back a column sort and reorder feature to 19 that was similar to Columns Viewer (JMP-26228).
- Worked on Column Filtering – adding the Edit > undo and Action recording for those commands in the columns panel – added some JSL test there too – thanks to Evan for some JSL tests and a template for this; Working Forced Values property issues that had happened with platforms and filtering – some LDF and DF and even in Filter Views – added some tests there too – need to work on some more cases with character data and MR – Thanks to Dan for the testing template; Testing things that will be in EA9 – trying to get a bit ahead and maybe make EA9 videos for a few final things to share with users.
- Audrey: Finalized 18.2.1 testing. Completed branching tasks related to 18.2.2. Continuing to map 3rd party libraries to specific JMP functionality (and tests). Evaluating Loom with Shannon L and Travis. Interns arrive next week and I am finalizing plans to be ready for their arrival.
- Nick H: Recently I have continued work on 19.0 verifications. Fixed several failing unit tests in the nightly runs. Started ideation for a couple of new enhancements to the JSL Unit Test GUI inspired by requests from Fang Chen – sorting the unit test list by modification date, and adding ability for multiple custom test lists that can be labeled.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 18.2.1 final installer testing, tested online/offline authorization cases for the JMP product/host configurations with the JMP 18.2.2 nightly builds, and JIRA verifications.
- Lisa: Finished 18.2.1 installer testing. I then worked on verifications and testing new margin work for Graph Builder.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Xan: Rework of margins in Graph Builder with a new Graph Margin property and support for DisplayBox margin properties. Bigger default Graph Builder size. Forced Values column property vs. missing values. No histogram bar labels for non-bars (those with no counts).
- Dan S: Levels that are introduced with the new Forced Values column property will no longer show in reports if they appear in a filter and are unselected. Made some changes to reduce scrolling when focus changes, and fixed some SendToReport issues for TableBox.
- Morgan: Ironing out some outstanding IME items and Notebook bugs, and making sure that Script Editor works as it should with CJK characters.
- Ernest: Changed Tables->Update to rename colliding columns instead of dropping them.
- Evan: Finished Column Filtering feature for v19.
Note from Shannon
I thought this one was fun! Hope you all enjoy – and have a great weekend!!!
