Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 30, 2025!
We are now in JMP 19 Code Review Mode, and JMP 19 EA9 is planned to freeze next Friday, 6/5/25. We will have EA installers for JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical and JMP Live for EA9. Thanks to everyone for continuing to triage, fix and verify bugs in the JMP 19 track! JMP Code Approval Mode starts on 6/13/25 and JMP Clinical Code Approval Mode starts on 6/27/25. During Code Approval, we aim to fix the most important bugs required to ship 19.0. Once 19.0 freezes, the JMP 19.1 and 20 tracks will open for other bug fixes.
As we continue towards JMP 19.0 Code Freeze on 7/3/25, please triage your bug items with Planned Version = 19.0 and make updates to items that are no longer planned for 19.0. You should assign most bug items with Planned Version = 20.0 but may also want to add 19.1 to the Planned Version field if an item seems important enough to consider for integration into our first maintenance release track. Of course, bug fixes should be tested in the 20.0 track prior to evaluation for integration into 19.1. All bug fixes made in maintenance releases (19.1, 19.2) must undergo code review prior to integration. Any minor features being considered for integration into 19.1 need to be added to the JMP 19.1 Features page. For both features and bugs, make sure to mark Release Notes Affected = Yes for items that should be mentioned in maintenance release notes.
For Story items, please update the Planned Version to 20.0, if you know the item is definitely in scope for our next feature release. If you know it is going to be worked on at some point but are not sure when, you can remove the Planned Version value and leave that field blank until a specific future release is chosen. Finally, if you have a Story on your list that needs more research or evaluation by product management prior, you can demote it to a Feature Request by using the “Move” option under the Jira … menu. Make sure to add a comment and @ mention the product manager who works in that area to bring that item to their attention.
In the JMP 19 cycle, we will begin releasing monthly “dot-dot” security updates. Because of the short timeframe for finalizing these monthly updates, we will not be able to accommodate non-security bug fixes in most of these releases. The only “dot-dot” releases where non-security critical bug fixes may be considered for integration will be 19.0.3, 19.1.3, and 19.2.3. Standards for inclusion will be stricter than in the 18 cycle and the Approval process will also be different. We will use a Jira-based process to request integrations - please see this draft page for more details about monthly releases and the X.X.3 approval process.
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/crash cases with crashes selected!
Beta and crash cases for the week of May 30 2025 | JMP Live
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
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Enhanced Simulate Responses for DOE. Testing Easy DOE, writing new unit tests for opening saved .jmpdoe files created in versions 17-19. Testing a shelved build of Reliability Life Testing Sample Size Explorer. Verifying Jira tickets. Prepared presentation on new ‘ut parameterized test’ functions created by Evan.
- Mark: Continued to test the Bayesian Optimization platform with new scenarios now that the numerical routines and heuristics are closer to the final form. Started a unit test script for the estimation of the Gaussian process model in the Bayesian Optimization platform.
- Tonya: Working on bug verification and unit test cleanup.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Working through the last set of 19 Jiras for JMP Clinical
- Richard: Networks! (clap clap) Networks! (clap clap).
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: Happy Friday! The Support teams continue to assist customers and work on projects related to Salesforce issues and enhancements. 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:
- Helped diagnose a table script problem (excluded columns weren’t saved out) with Mandy – thanks to Ernest for a fast fix! (JMP-26582)
- Fixed a concatenated string and ran Stringbot for Builtins for localization. Thanks to Jacob for quickly verifying my edit! (JMPLOC-6936: Run Stringbot for Builtins)
- Worked on getting a JSL Conflict for several languages fixed. Thanks to Evan and Jianfeng for the fix and to Audrey for helping to test it! (JMP-26519)
- Worked with Qiana, Mandy, Trish, Myron, and others on sample data issues for 19.0.
- Watched Myron do a bulk change in the new database for JiraBot. Thanks for the training! (JMPTOOL-1603)
- Entered a couple of Jiras to add the ability to localize Column Group names, Variable Group names, Column Tag names, and Filter View names in Sample Data tables. (JMP-26514, JMP-26513)
- Bob: Pro Live 19 EA creation and testing. Added installer splash screen and fixed up some JIRAs reported during preliminary testing. We will have a good installer to test from on June 6. Worked on how files are installed using the custom file option with Windows installer.
- Shannon L: Initial review of product requirements for the JMP Marketplace Monetization project with the business owners. User support for Atlassian tools, plus continuing to work on policy and process documentation for Atlassian tools, as well as other R&D policies. Weekly technical meetings, including Doc and L10N meetings. Meetings with Product Management.
- Shannon C: Reviewed items on the JMP 19 Late Features page and helped move items to Test-Ready status. Continued to review open ASAN issues and marked several Test-Ready if they did not appear in the latest runs. Investigated a few mystery crashes. Reviewed items with Planned Version = 19.0 and added Origin details and comments. Reviewed ongoing work at weekly technical meetings.
- Myron: Bulk updated tech writer assignments (JMPTOOL-1603). Investigated extra blank lines in sample data notes (JMPTOOL-1618). Continued migrating unit test, crash, and other SQL Server data to PostgreSQL on AWS (JMPTOOL-1477).
Localization
- Allison: Worked on investigating and resolving translation bugs that QA reported for Sample Data and JMP Live; prepared translation packages for 19.0 HTML5 and handed off to translation teams; prepared translation packages for final handoff of 19.0 Portable UI and sent them to translation teams; reported bugs to Howard on automation processes.
- Krzysztof: Run Stringbot and the commit for the third (and final) drop of PortableUI. Created a Jenkins job that sets up HTML5 help build environment. Tested new Return job for UI and the updated Jenkins for Quick-Start project. Started looking into the extra line breaks problem in SampleData notes.
- Howard: Finished Quick-Start Jenkins job with label syncing and image comparison. Finished testing of LS related Jenkins jobs. Investigating project enabling issue on Dashboard.
- Sandy: Continued new return process development for sample data. Tested Quick Start/Html5 populate job.
- Trish: Lots of time spent on sample data issues related to Stringbot. Fixed ZH menu translations for 19.0 EA (JMP-24433). Planning for handoffs in July.
- Ying: Finished localized FrameMaker templates for V19. Backing up and transferring data.
Documentation
- Susan C: Labeled and handed off HTML5 help & Text insets for HTML5 & JMP Live. Finished updating the JMP Live install help and sent for review (early). Sent the publishing content for JMP Live & HTML5 in the UG book out for review - will incorporate feedback. Continuing work on updates to JMP Live admin/user help. Kept up with UI strings for May.
- Khawar: Oxygen callouts - Made a list of images for all the remaining books (4 books left); Started creating images for PR. JMP preferences - Discussed Column Tags with Ernest and got some help; Updated information in the chapter
- Chris: Pushed the first take of some Python doc. Trying to diagnose a link issue on JMP Live Resources page. Investigating font sizes for JMP Live/Public.
- Devon: Continued work reviewing edits to the JMP user guide, continued work on various data connector docs.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Worked to try and determine how For Each Row() performance has deteriorated over the past year of 19.0 development and as a result Ernest was able to make some improvements to performance. I have also worked with Morgan on a number of JSL Snippet fixes and improvements. Lastly, I am working with Myron on getting the Testing Dashboard codebase ready for database transition to Postgres – this will be ongoing over the next few weeks.
- Mandy: Mostly worked on JMP 19, verifying JIRAs and adding tests. Worked on NYC 311 Records.jmp table – doing some of the clean-up for that table, which will be pushed in 19.1. Working on getting thoughts together for Discovery Summit Austin paper on changes in JMP19 for Data Table.
- Audrey: Created some draft policies for our Jira/Confluence user access and one for our more strict code approval process coming during 19.x.x. Collecting additional third-party library information along with related tests. Organizing intern events.
- Lisa: Worked on investigating an axis rename issue in graphlets, helped update some JSL scripts with Qiana for documentation, and continued bug verifications.
- Hunter: Most of the week was spent working on JIRA verifications. Ran through test cases for some authorization updates.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Da Li: (1) Bugs verification. (2) TS: 00206722 PDF import issue investigation and create bug JMP-26550: JMP Crash when doing special steps in PDF import wizard. (3) DONE: Feature testing of import/export part of JMPTESTBJ-3629: Feature testing for JMP-586: Test the in-line IME support in JSL script editor for Simplified Chinese. (4) IN-Progress: JMP Clinical 19.0 English publish to JMP Live testing round 2/2. (5) Feature testing: JMPCLINICAL-4314: Allow reports to distribute interactive objects to more than one JMP Live page. (7) Preparation: JMPTESTBJ-3681: JMP Clinical 19.0 Chinese publish to JMP Live testing.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP 19.0 bugs verification testing. (2) Snowflake rest-based data connector testing on Windows and Mac. (3) Query Builder related code improvement regression testing. (4) l Chinese IME testing for Add-in, ODBC Database/Query Builder, data connectors, AspenTech IP.21 connection.
- Kimi: (1) Bug Verification. (2) Discuss the UT failures of Mac machines with Jim: JMPTOOL-1559: Request to install the latest R version 4.5.0 and setup environment variable on both win and mac – Done, disable R-related tests for 1900MacV64. (3) SAS – NF: JMP-26201: CRP: It would be nice that adding ODS Style back to SAS Preferences. JMP-26202: CRP: It would be nice that adding "Show SAS Log > On Error "back to SAS Preferences. (4) Remove Anaconda from AWS machines. (5) Investigating UT crashes and failures: JMP-26466: JMP crashes after running SASIntegration/test_012_Preferences.jsl –fixed. JMP-25485: Windows Only: JMP crashes after running SASIntegration/test_003_Submit.jsl – workaround, use “Preferences1: << Set( "Display JSL SAS results as HTML"n( 0 ) );” to turn display HTML off when running JSL. JMP-26551: Cannot Init R with the latest rpy2 – discussing with Paul. (7) Test the in-line IME support with Simplified Chinese, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3629 – Done. (8) JMP 19.0 I18N Testing, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3198 – In Progress. (9) JMP Live 19.0 Scenario-based Testing, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3470 – Done. (10) Jenkins: Check results for Beijing Daily UT.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Investigate JMP Live E2E test failures – JMPTESTBJ-3678 – DONE. (3) JMP Live 19.0 Scenario-based testing: round 6 – JMPTESTBJ-3470 – In Progress.
- Lily Meng: (1) Bug Verification. (2) L10N Testing - CHINESE : Sample Data on JMP 19.0 - Done. (3) Win Automation: Investigate JMP crashes while running Win Automation test cases.
- Nala: (1) Bug Verification. (2) JMP Live 19.0 Scenario-based Testing, detailed refer to JMPTESTBJ-3470 – In Progress. (3) Deployed Viya 3.5 (LTS 25w12) for the 3rd party testing next week. (4) Tested the Date/time format for JMP Live 19 for WEBJMP-10111: Review JMP Live datetime formats for supported languages. (5) Regression testing for JMP Live download progress bar, refer to WEBJMP-10201: Progress bar still shown after download is canceled.
Core
- Dan S: Fixed stretching in Query Builder dialog with Bryan Boone. Fixed a missing where-clause when GB is launched with a filter. Fixed Preset issue in Distribution with a filter. Working on fixing image output in JMP Live JSS theme + dark mode.
- Xan: Forced values; shape file issue found by Jasean; empty axis dispatch key; duplicate color/overlay variables.
Interactive HTML
- Paul Spychala: Fixing bugs for HTML and JMPLive.
- Distribution: Histogram turns to bogus when the column uses custom order (JMPHTML-14231)
- JMP Dashboard becomes blank in HTML (JMPHTML-14184)
- GB: Chart w/wrap role layout changes when data has special characters (JMPHTML-14650)
- Design Space Profiler should be static (JMPHTML-14286)
- GB: Need to support multi-line text in group headers (JMPHTML-2415)
- Diamonds are missing after exporting Hierarchical Cluster to HTML5 file. (JMPHTML-14657)
- John Powell:
- Took a couple of short Pluralsight courses.
- Fixed CellPlotBox bugs in situations where each Cell Plot row represents multiple table rows:
- JMPHTML-14626 Cellplot (with GroupRowstateAbility) has no tooltips.
- JMPHTML-14646 EMV: Clicking dendrogram lines does not select associated cells in cell plot.
- JMPHTML-14652 EMV: Selection not working properly when CellPlot rows represent multiple table rows.
- Worked with Dan Sckikore to resolve JMPHTML-14654 regression: background color lost after change list 857057.
- Mike Stickles: Completed work on bugs JMPHTML-14460 (Line : HTML5 does not honor the line label color), JMPHTML-14556 (Bar segment doesn't support transparency in exported/published report), and JMPHTML-14454 (Fill Pattern: Ellipse doesn't honor the fill pattern set from legend) and submitted them for testing. That work also appears to have resolved related and/or duplicate issues JMPHTML-13454 and JMPHTML-13681 (Ellipse fill patterns) as well as JMPHTML-14173 (line label color); those JIRA issues are linked from the originals. Also determined that bugs JMPHTML-2299 (Legend text does not use white in dark theme on stand along HTML5) and JMPHTML-2368 (CCB: Line connected through excluded data point) had apparently been fixed as a byproduct of other work, and submitted those to testing for verification.
- Sam: Working on interactive multiple response histograms for JMP Live. On top of this I have been working on some bug fixes related to Pie Charts in JMP Live and their interaction with special characters.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (fix marker data link at publish time, store table name without extension to account for different info from JMP, tweak OpenAPI documentation, store and pass along qc_byLevel - in progress). Add protections against spoofed image files in user avatars.
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Sent out the updated sample size explorer chapter for review. The documentation now includes examples for many of the explorers now that they are coded such that they support the ability to script screenshots.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to John Sall for sharing this! Hope you all have a great weekend and stay safe with the weird weather!
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Cartoon by John Landers for Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. The winning caption by by Cigdem Sirin from The University of Texas at El Paso.
