Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 11, 2025.
JMP Development has entered a new era, the JMP 20 era, with major branching events happening this week after Code Freeze for JMP 19.0. Jim has announced that main is now auto-integrating into the JMP 20 branch, and I’ve started seeing pushes happening there as work for the next release of JMP is already starting. The JMP 19.1 branch is also available now for continued work and bug fixes in the 19 track. Daily builds and installers are available for both of those versions – thank you Jim Borek and Bob Hickey for your work to make this happen as we all rely on them. Jim and others continue to work on related tasks such as getting our nightly JSL test suites up and running, and branching JMP 19.0.1.
Big congratulations are owed to the DOE team for being awarded two additional patents! Congratulations to Peng Liu, Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz, Rajneesh Rajneesh, and Jacob Rhyne for this accomplishment. The details of both patents are available in this collection of Issued Patents to SAS and JMP staff.
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has indicated it issued your patent, entitled Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Adaptive Design Exploration and Model Management on 2025-07-01 as U.S. Patent No. 12,346,541.
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has indicated it issued your patent, entitled Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Adaptive Design Exploration and Model Management on 2025-07-01 as U.S. Patent No. 12,346,544.
Thanks to Ryan Lekivetz for organizing a series of R&D Seminars. This week we heard from Dr. Jennifer Van Mullekom (VA Tech) about The ABC’s of Effective Communication in Statistical Collaboration Description. She gave some very helpful and practical advice for communicating key statistical analyses to non-statisticians. If you missed it, the recording can be viewed at this link. I highly recommend it especially if you are someone who gives technical talks at JMP Discovery or elsewhere.
I’d like to give a friendly reminder to everyone that the ACT-Now Compliance Training is due by Friday, July 18th. All employees need to take it. The link to your training will be in a notification a couple of weeks ago – take the time to go through it since it is required for all of us.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing some highlights about change you may notice in our Atlassian products.
July 7, 2025, product changes for Atlassian products
On July 7, Atlassian rolled out changes to our Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket Cloud sites. A list of relevant changes along with highlighted details and documentation can be found here: July+7+2025+product+changes+for+Jira+Confluence+Bitbucket. The changes include:
- New Jira and Confluence navigation has started to rollout
- Jira Issues: now referred to as "Work" items
- Jira Board settings have moved to new left navigation
- If you want to, you can disable smart replies in your work item comments
- 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.
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 summary for the last 2 weeks can be found here: EA report for June 27th - July 11th (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
Technical Support and Engagement
Technical Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last two weeks:
Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last two weeks:
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Sara Doudt:
Product Launch Preview Campaign Now Available
As part of the launch this fall, we are introducing a preview campaign for customers and prospects who are interested in the next version, as a path for them to sign up and be one of the first to get a sneak peek into what is coming in JMP before the actual release date.
Learn more about how you can help support this campaign.
- Bryan F: This week I continued to develop a usability report for the JMP Store. The week prior Sarah Sylvestre acted in the role of a user in a usability study. Sarah and I also prioritized the items that were identified. I also developed some planning documents for refreshing JMP icons and improving accessibility. I provided some feedback to Ernest regarding nesting tags within the columns panel. Finally, I updated some splash screens for John Schroedl so that the copyright information can be updated programmatically
Development Operations
- Bob: Prepare installer scripts for 19.1 and 20.0 Windows releases. Test and tweak new installer scripts so that we now have a full set of Windows installers for JMP 19.1 and JMP 20.0 (only 620 days until version 20 release). Installer validation for 18.2.2.
- Jim: Plan/set up Mac and Win build machines for 19.x.x and 20.0.0. Created Perforce branches (19.0.0 to 19.1.0 and Main to 20.0.0); 19.0.1 (from 19.0.0) forthcoming; updated Copyright year for each branch. Coordinated with Audrey (THANKS!) to set up unit test machines for 19.1.0, 19.0.1 and 20.0.0. Participated in a (false alarm) fire drill early last week :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:. Integrated many, many, many, many, many changelists to 19.0.0 and 19.1.0. Applied macOS Tahoe updates to multiple unit test machines. Created final image candidates on Mac and Win for all JMP 18.2.2 products; disabled all related nightly processes. Perforce support.
- Melanie: Catching up after 2 weeks off (and completely offline wrt work). Rural Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York are lovely places.19.0: Last JSL Conflicts for localized PortableUI strings. Only 2 need to be fixed. 19.0 strings have been very clean with respect to conflicts through all 3 handoffs. Thanks to Allison Liang for coordinating this project! Thanks to Jim Borek for getting updated string files integrated into 19.0 and 19.1 (and all the other integrations he's done while also creating and launching 3 new branches)! Helped Localization and Documentation get a clean Discovering JMP handoff. I enjoyed the R&D Seminar with Dr. Jennifer Van Mullekom - great presentation. Thanks to Ryan Lekivetz for setting that up! Just in time for beginning to write my presentation for Discovery Summit in Austin.
- Shannon L: Wrapping up security reviews for 18.2.2, in process for 19.0. Curated a list of interesting Jira and Confluence updates from our last monthly rolling update from Atlassian on Monday. Weekly technical meetings, including Doc and Localization. Met with Snyk support regarding SBOM generation failures that started occurring last month. Finalized our new JMP Security Bulletin with 18.2.2 fixes, to be announced to customers on the jmp.com Trust Center with the 18.2.2 release. Monthly meeting with CIS to review JMP technical dependencies on SAS.
Localization
- Trish: Triage handoffs from the doc team. Quick Start pushed to production and being validated. Reviewing remaining projects for 19.0 and validating before freeze & Jira reviews.
- Ying: Finished creating animated .GIFs for Quick Start for all languages. Finished creating screenshot for HTML5 for all languages.
- Sandy: Continued new return process development/testing for Sample Data, Builtins, and PortableUI. Tested file comparison utilities in populate and image diff jobs after addition of test/submit check boxes. Took online class for career development
- Sohail: Completed implementation for GPT nano model plugin and provided UI element for summarization feature on RAG Chatbot. Upgraded MemoQ server to newest version and advised others to upgrade client as well.
- Allison: Worked on preparing 19.0 Keyboard Shortcuts translation kits ready and sent them out to vendors. Validated localized 19.0 QuickStart animated gifs. Prepared 19.0 DJ translation kits and sent them out to translation teams.
Documentation
- Khawar: Oxygen callouts: QPM images done and reviewed by Chris; Working on BA images. Ran production checks on books for 19.0.
- Devon: Wrapping up various review notes and minor documentation in the JMP user guide, security training, getting books production ready.
- Chris: Got in some last-minute changes to Transform Scoping and Filter Views doc. Reviewed QPM callouts. After several false starts, finally got the DJ to Localization. Testing and prepping 19.0 doc for release. Thanks to Devon for taking the arbitrary nesting feature!
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on answering a few TS tracks, request for things that mostly will need to be added in 19.1 or 20; Finished up verifying a few Tabulate fixes Andrew put in and added a few test cases to try and cover those; Opened this scrolling issue from John JMP-27165 and got the fix approved and in, testing that and requested a few other folks try and grab the 19 install and check out scrolling in the data table; began working on DS paper and data preparation – for 19.0; tried an install of JMP 20 on Mac today and found an authorization issue and chatted with Daniel Powell – he was aware so all should be okay now.
- Hunter: JMP 18.2.2 final installer validation on Mac and Windows with various authorization cases. Installed the Mac Tahoe Developer Beta 3 on MDA692 (M1 mini in lab) and set up an old (but new to us) Intel MacBook Pro named Macbeta2x86 that will be used for host testing Tahoe on Intel. Investigated some test failures on Macbeta2x86 that appeared to be related to dropped wi-fi connections what were resolved by using a network cable. Met with Bob to demonstrate an issue where JMP 19 EA 9 would not uninstall on Windows 11 that he was able to resolve. Investigated one JMP 19 EA 9 case.
- Audrey: 18.2.2 testing, reviewing 19.0 issues and requests, verifications of 19.0 issues. Had a fun outing to see the Durham Bulls with some of our interns on Thursday evening.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Investigate JMP Live E2E test failures – JMPTESTBJ-3784 – DONE. (3) Regression testing for refactoring Jira - JMPTESTBJ-3785 – In Progress. (4) Request additional Beijing VM and deploy JMP 19.5 for E2E – JMPTESTBJ-3786 – DONE.
- Lily Meng: (1) Bug Verification. (2) Learn more about Profiler via JMP Online Help, relevant Jira issues, and UT cases. (3) Summarize checkpoints for component Profiler.
- Nala: (1) Bug Verification. (2) Work with Audrey review Final Installer Checklist and updated JMPC checklist section. (3) Fixed several UT failures. (4) Preparing for Beijing team’s testing timeline. (5) Sanity check for JMP Live 19.5. (6) Updated JMP Clinical EA Release Checklist. (7) Created two confluence pages: Add the sample study Nicardipine to JMP Clinical by 'Add sample study...' button, Run All JMP Clinical Reports
JMP Live
- Aurora: Recactoring tasks. Helping with an investigation into crashes at First Solar.
Web Testing
- Josh: JMP 18.2.2 installer testing: planning and execution in progress. Started upgrading JMP Live 18.2 machines to 19.1. Will be moving the 19.0 machines to JMP 20. Adding two new test servers for JMP Live 19.5 (wt-midldap, wt-midpublic). These will cover the JMP Live and half-year releases.
Core
- Xan: GroupRowStateAbility – performance and Multiple Response issues.
- Dave B: Started a 19.1 branch for jmprunner / image testing. Fixed a bug with large 3d markers not increasing in size when selected. Fixed a distribution bug with rebinning when journaled.
- Dan S: Working to remove legacy graph platform code - Overlay Plot, Treemap, Chart. The legacy menu no longer appears, and since JMP 15 these launchers have produced Graph Builder reports. Improved performance of categorical filters with many levels. Performance also improved for brushing in Graph Builder. Fixed crashes at data-table close with on-close script that runs callbacks. Fixing dispatch / Save Scripts in English issues.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Discussion and research into new libxml2 vulnerability reports. Pushed improvements to /logstart output to include whether JMP is running as Admin, home dirs for add-ins and better message if JMP.PFS is not present. Looking into why JMP is not listed in the OS Default apps list. Debugging crash using FileSystemWatcher when target dir is deleted. Fielded questions from tech support re: JMP behavior when using OLE automation. Updated splash screen drawing to draw copyright message from code instead of have it part of the background image.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Fixed RectSegment to use the customized line style for the outline of Fit Confidence Region and Heatmap cells(JMPHTML-13467). Worked with Annie and Eric to help Alex Lippincott with a dashboard on JMP Live that wasn’t updating properly when data was refreshed. Performed Whitebox Testing. Our team created 30 Jira work items for problems found. Discussed implementation of custom tooltips in the MDMCC platform with Jianfeng to understand how they differ from Graphlets that are supported on JMP Live. Working on an issue where sizing of content within a LineUpBox is incorrect causing items to be clipped(JMPHTML-14667).
- Mike Stickles: Completed ACT-Now SIRT training. Participated in full-day Whitebox testing. Reviewed and did initial investigation of all 24 Major issues assigned to me which I had not yet reviewed, to identify the best ones to work on next. Began work on JMPHTML-14080 (Exported date format changes depending on Regional settings) and JMPHTML-14740 (Bars for first Group are not correct).
- Praveena: Preparing blogs & video (Product management wants a 5min video for Process Screening for their SPC page), reached out to Hui for tools to create GIFs. Whitebox testing. Working on JMPHTML-14724 (Control Charts with By groups are inactive)
Statistics & DOE
- Caleb: Finalizing some paper revisions and paper reviews. I've also started development on a shape profiler add-in tool based on my work with Sky and Zoe in WildTrack.
- Ryan L: Giving a shout-out to one of our interns, Simin Zheng, and Caleb King, that just had a paper accepted for publication in Quality Engineering: DR-AIR: A Data Repository Bridging the Research Gap in AI Reliability. Simin Zheng, Jared M Clark, Fatemeh Salboukh, Priscila Silva, Karen da Mata, Fenglian Pan, Jie Min, Jiayi Lian, Caleb B King, Lance Fiondella, Jian Liu, Xinwei Deng, Yili Hong.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: The Stat Doc team completed all new content work for 19.0 and handed our books off to the doc team for production checks! Completed a lot of new content for new Stat and DOE/Reliability features. Attended some meetings about getting more JSL content online.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Working on getting the CCB unit tests to run properly in 19 due to the fundamental changes made in the way the platform works.
- Jacob: Testing JMP-27097 and updating the DOE unit tests to account for this. Writing new tests for the Prediction Variance Profiler in DOE, motivated by JMP-26866. Preparing for JSM. Updating the Usability Study Tool.
Thank you to John Sall for sharing the results of the 110th Cartoon Caption Contest from the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE). The contest occurs monthly, and July’s contest is ongoing right now if you’d like to enter. June’s contest image is shown here, with the winning caption and runners up below.
June’s winning caption:
“In assessing whether their workout plan led to significant gains, the gym was advised to use a one-sided test.”
- Steve Wang from Swarthmore College. Steve’s caption can be used to discuss the difference between one- and two-sided tests (and why the gym in the cartoon might choose the former).
Honorable mentions:
“When your sample is biased, your gains are too.”
- Nayab Ali, a student at University of Texas at San Antonio. Illustrates the problems of biased sampling such as drawing data from an unusual sampling frame.
“Lefty’s Gym promised gains, but they didn’t say the distribution would be so right-skewed!”
- Chantelle Estabillo, a student at MiraCosta College. Discussion of the meaning of skewness in statistics and how it differs from usage in everyday speech.
“Not the best place for a matched pair design.”
- Anonymous. Discusses how matched pair designs that rely on bodily symmetry should still be randomized across subjects.
