Welcome to the JMP Development Update for June 27, 2025!
It’s been a busy week for approvals as we wind down JMP Code Approval mode. Next week will be the last one for requesting JMP/JMP Pro source changes with JMP/JMP Pro Code Freeze coming at 5 pm on 7/3/25. JMP Clinical begins their approval mode for JSL-only changes at 5 pm today and will freeze at 5 pm on 7/17/25. The JMP 19 Approval requests we have received so far are tracked under this epic.
The DevOps team is working towards our upcoming branching events for 20, 19.1 and 19.0.1. While DevOps is doing everything possible to set up processes and tools ahead of 7/3/25, we expect to continue working the following week to get remaining infrastructure tasks completed and tested for all the various branches. Thanks in advance for your patience. We will prioritize JMP 20
(next feature branch), JMP 19.1
(next maintenance branch) and finally JMP 19.0.1
(security-only monthly release). Please see the links in the prior sentence for the epics tracking our branching tasks. I’ll be out of the office on vacation from 7/4-7/13, but Shannon L and Melanie will be helping organize and monitor branching tasks in my absence so please feel free to reach out to them with any questions!
Congratulations go out this week to Khawar Latif Khan, our JMP documentation team intern, who successfully defended his dissertation on Monday, June 23! Khawar shared that this successful defense was part of his PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University. He says, “The dissertation, "Designing for Nonprofit Knowledge- and Resource-Sharing in Pakistan: An Activity-Centered Approach to Understanding, Framing, and Designing Collaboration" focuses on studying and designing for nonprofit activities that can support cross-organizational collaboration related to the problem of violence against women and children in Pakistan. Please find my picture with my dissertation chair (Dr. Stacey Pigg) below.” Congrats again on achieving this milestone, Khawar!
Thanks very much to DOE team member Joseph Morgan for sharing an update on his ongoing covering arrays research at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! If you were not able to attend, you can find a recording here. Joseph followed up colleague Irene Ji’s recent dev talk on BayesFlo with a deep dive on recent extensions to JMP’s capabilities and performance improvements for covering arrays for JMP 19 (and work that will continue into the 20 cycle).
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing a link to summary reports for the combined data of EA1-EA8 found here: EA1-EA8 | JMP Live. The weekly summary for the last 2 weeks can be found here: Weekly EA report for the weeks of June 20th and June 27th | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: This week we had a very exciting training session for the sales enablement training session. Dan Valente and Russ Wolfinger presented on positioning JMP in the Era of AI, and Russ gave a sneak peek of the JMP Assistant that he has been working on.
This session was recorded, and there is a sales sheet in the Sales Enablement Library if you would like to know more.
- Bryan: This week I continued to develop the Usability Study Builder. Specifically, I added the ability to rename existing studies. Last week I tested with Sarah Sylvestre to make sure that both she and I could create and collaborate on studies. I also participated in an ideation session with the JMP Live team regarding the ability to edit data tables on JMP Live and collect response values as part of a DOE. In addition, I provided input on the UI for a JMP AI Assistant.
Technical Support and Engagement
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
- Myron: JMPTOOL-1619 – finished updating indexes, removed old releases, updated SQL Server view used for selecting input data. JMPTOOL-1477 – SQL Server to AWS/PostgreSQL migration. Discussions on development goals and updating them in PLATO.
- Jim: Installed mac OS 26 (Tahoe) on multiple unit test machines, including a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro, which will be used for JMP Pro 19 testing. Performed multiple Perforce changelist integrations to the 19.0 branch.
- Shannon L: User support for Atlassian tools, including opening a support ticket for Jira bug when including screenshots. Finalizing Atlassian renewals. Discussions on JMP Live 19.5+ releases.
- Shannon C: Assisted Mia with development queries about crash and telemetry content relating to the JMP Assistant add-in privacy review. New release planning and discussions on branching task progress with DevOps team. Q2 development conversations with various team members. Attended lunch and learn on Gender Diversity, Neurodiversity, and Queerness. Thanks to the JMP D&I team and HR for sponsoring this informative and interactive session!
Localization
- Allison: Worked on getting 19.0 Quick Start translation packages ready and sent them to translation teams; ran the jenkins job for copying Quick Start images/gifs to our l10nsource area in P4 and reported bugs to Howard to get the process fixed; communicated with developers and translation teams on queries related to PortableUI and Marketplace strings; processed Marketplace translations and pushed them to GIT; reviewed our existing jenkins jobs and jira epics to prepare for DJ handoff, template files for DJ web, JMP Live Help, HTML5; completed the training course on security; completed a Project Management course provided by O'Reily in PLATO before our subscription ends.
- Ying: Finished test JMP Live Help Auto - Localized Help Setup: Create Jenkins jobs. Testing HTML5 Help: Build Localized Help. Resolve FrameMaker installation issue. Finished security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Training and Awareness (2025 Q2). Verified the modified EN image scripts for DJ.
- Krzysztof: Working on a new job for copying localized built doc to exp and test environments (Html5 and JmpLive). Working on setting up new localization projects in our localization dashboard. Testing new L10N automation features (new Return job - Builtins) and fixing bugs. Helping with launching and receiving translations to and from our vendors.
- Sohail: Worked on improving RAG Chatbot user interface text bubbles, improved latency and reduced computation with summarization feature, and added user/system logging.
- Howard:
- Finalized quick-start populate job and image diff job
- Added feature to Dashboard project template for project/domain one-to-many relationship
- Started incorporated JMP-UI script to Dashboard automation
- Trish: Planning for DJ, MDC, KS and JMP Live help handoffs. PLATO dev goals meetings with team.
Documentation
- Qiana: Began working on the data table column filtering feature. Addressed JMP-26876 and JMP-26754. Met with Mandy for a demo of the new filtering feature (thanks Mandy!). Incorporated test feedback into the Keyboard Shortcut and Menu Description Cards. Ran the production scripts on the cards. Project planning and coordination.
- Khawar: Oxygen callouts: Creating images for QPM. JMP Preferences: Updating the chapter in UG and adding help keys.
- Devon: Sent Data Grid Edit Pane documentation for review and implemented Mandy’s comments, wrapping up Column Tags documentation, wrote internal documentation for conducting a PDF review using Adobe Cloud.
- Susan C:
- Made some last-minute changes to the Quick Start tips and handed off to localization.
- Updated the Get the Most from JMP TI.
- Incorporating the JMP Live/Public user/admin help feedback.
- Working on updating JMP Live/Public scripts.
- Had the localization + doc meeting & updated our meeting notes.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Catching up after being on vacation with Jira’s, verifies, and other stuff; many tabulate changes/fixes, so mostly worked on that this week and added some tests in JSL framework to confirm those changes; reviewed a few Doc items, and the Quick Start tips after changes went in; Did the security training in LMS; will start preparing my data and paper/presentation for Discovery Summit Americas.
- Audrey: JMP 19 testing continues as we head towards Code Freeze and things seem to be going well overall. I have been doing some planning for 18.2.2 installer testing, planning for future unit test runs after the upcoming branch event, testing Jiras here and there.
- Nick H: Continued work on 19.0 verifications. I have also continued to push updates to the testing dashboard hosted at http://jmptooldev.dev.jmp.com/testing/dashboard/ with the new PostgreSQL backend. A number of the pages are now working; however the more complex pages are still a work in progress.
- Hunter: JIRA verifications. investigated a crash with data filters in projects, ran some tests on MDA692 in the lab with the updated Tahoe 26.0 Developer Beta 2, and reviewed the Keyboard Shortcuts and Menu Description Cards for Qiana.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dave B: Reproduced and then fixed a text import crash Xan reported. Updated the crashreader program to work around a devstudio problem reading pdf files from a network drive. Tried to reproduce a smootherseg crash but was unable to. Triaged 19.0 jiras.
- Evan: Meetings, discussions, and other work orbiting JMP Assistant. Various bug investigations and reviews. Working on Telemetry dev talk.
- Xan: Doc review, bug fixes in future branch.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will: Working on adding a progress bar for Python Install Packages() such that JMP does not appear hung when trying to install fairly large packages that take a longer time to install. This is a fix for JMP-26438.
- Paul:
- Final expected updates to Python for JMP 18.2.2 & JMP 19.0 - 18.2.2 was updated to Python 3.11.13 and 19.0 received Python 3.13.5.
- Turns out all four PLATO courses I signed up for and planned to complete by the end of the year were O’Reilly courses (which SAS is phasing out). From the end of last week through this week I did them all…
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed a bug with markers missing on graphs in Process Screening with a local data filter (JMP-26715).
- Added a log message for unsupported Partial Selection Indicators (JMPHTML-14687).
- Updated fill operations for Contours, Maps, GStream, and Polygons to use “evenOdd” to match a recent JMP rendering change (JMPHTML-14696).
- Fixed an issue where backslash characters were dropped from OutlineBox titles (JMPHTML-13408).
- Fixed an issue with CellPlotPlatform missing CellPlots with an X Role defined (JMPHTML-14666).
- Fixed issues caused by CellPlots not supporting Hidden and Exclude properly (JMPHTML-14159, JMPHTML-14670 ).
- Rebuilt Pie Segment reference images for Sam’s new Pie Segment unit tests since he doesn’t have a Mac.
- Fixed individual unit tests that failed due to dependencies not being included.
- Presented with Praveena on “What’s new in Interactive HTML for JMP19” at the Americas SEs monthly meeting.
- Completed the SIRT Security training course.
- Added Development Goals and Plan to PLATO.
- Mike Stickles: Did additional work on JMPHTML-14483 (GB: Line: Stacked chart yields different result w/Ordering=Summarized), but tabled it since the fix I’d found was generating a different error that I was uncertain I could get solved before code freeze. Switched to working on JMPHTML-14720 (Control Chart with Process Capability crashes), generated a fix and integrated into both main and (after approval) 19.0.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Fixed a bug in GLMM with missing values in a frequency column that was causing a crash for Causal Treatment. Code reviews for folks. Nominal multinomial GLMM work (it’s producing results now, but I’m not sure they’re entirely correct, yet. Progress, though!).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Finished documenting reliability-related new features for 19.0, and nearly finished documenting Fit Model new features; reviewed drafts of documentation for Colleen and Safiya.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Worked with Jacob on the draft of our presentation about using DOE to test software usability for the FTC in October. I worked with Jacob on the draft of our case study about using DOE to test software usability to be published this summer by ISEA. I tested the Bayesian Optimization platform for Kasia and Chris. I worked with Yeng and Chris to identify issues with the Profiler upon which BO heavily depends. I updated the add-in that emulates the IndPenSim 2 simulation for use in BO workshops. I will be on a family vacation all next week.
- Tonya: Working on beta reporting, unit test cleanup, and bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Closed out last of JMP Clinical 19.0 Jiras, assist in triaging performance and functional issues in other JMP Clinica reports, and assisted Novo with custom JMP Clinical report JSL.
- Richard: Created some simulated PK data with a UNC student for JMP Clinical. Bug fixing for 19.
Note from Shannon
Hope everyone enjoys the weekend – make sure to get outside to do your activity early in the day and don’t overheat!!!
