19.0: final testing – 19.0.1: security fixes only -- 19.1: code review until Sep30 -- 20.0: open for pushes to main; 20 EA1: ~11/30/25
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 8, 2025!
Thanks to Xan Gregg for suggesting the above “ribbon” to summarize where we are in each ongoing release! As we have more tracks going at a time, I hope this will be a helpful way to quickly see the status of each one.
John Sall shared the following information about updates to the online scripting index discussed in recent dev updates and meetings. Many people have already been working to enhance JSL examples for numerous platforms in the 19.1 and 20 tracks.
The JSL Examples project to publish the Scripting Index to the web (https://jsl.jmp.com) will do its next extract based on the 19.1 build on August 15. If you have new ScriptItem “.example" work, please link your work to the epic JMP-27234, and get it integrated into 19.1 by August 15. Kristen Slappey, Evan McCorkle, and Matthew Gilmore make the extract and convert the data into web pages. This project is important for LLMs to learn how to compose JSL better.
Much appreciation to Nick Ruva for coordinating the conversion of JMP’s Perforce server to LDAP authentication this week! As previously announced by JMP security manager Travis Lapolla, this update is intended to streamline access management and enhance JMP’s security posture. I appreciate the early testers who logged in last weekend for a short trial run - special thanks to Jim Borek, Dave Barbour and John Sall for reporting issues they noticed, and to Nick and Jim for working to answer questions, research and resolve issues as the migration progressed. If you encounter any lingering issues that you think are related to the LDAP transition, please contact Nick to detail your issue so he can help investigate.
Hope you all were able to attend one or more of our end of summer intern presentations over the past few weeks! This week, we saw virtual demos from Toni McCoy, Bradley Bowen, Mateo Collado, Hunter Sill, Elikem Dodor, Ashley Fowler, Molena Huynh, Jamie Young, Justin Walters, Victoria Uchman, and Simran Ajwani. If you missed the meetings, you can find them here: intern session 4 and intern session 5. Links to these and other recent recordings are also found here.
It was great to connect with some of our local interns at the Intern Expo on Wednesday in Building C! I was sorry it was not in A this year given the rain, but those of us who braved the walk to C with our umbrellas found a busy room of poster presenters and attendees. I had a chance to chat with some of the the interns and even spotted our JMP celebrity interviewer Cameron with her mom Allison Hines! You can check out a final round of fun antics with the interns at that event.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases with crashes selected!
Beta and crash cases for the week of August 8 2025 | 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
Development Operations
- Nick: Please let me know if you see any lingering weirdness from Perforce that you think might be related to the LDAP transition and I will be glad to help troubleshoot! FYI that our Snyk scan will also be updated next week. I'm working with Travis to confirm the versions of third-party packages in versions 18.x-20 in preparation for moving to a manifest-based package manager that I wrote to better serve our security scans.
- Jim:
- Thanks to Nick Ruva for all the planning, executing, and supporting of the Perforce LDAP migration!
- Spent a good amount of time on JMPTEST-1819, getting ODBC drivers installed and configured on mac OS for JMP 19.0, 19.1 and 20.0
- Created an ASAN build on mac OS for JMP 20, ran the UT suite, and reported JIRAs for new issues
- Created a Debug build on WinOS for JMP 20, ran the UT suite; have not reported JIRAs for new issues yet
- Worked with CIS to restage (BeyondTrust change) the Sales Engineering mac OS machine that had administrator privileges removed
- Working with CIS to backtrack a BeyondTrust change that removed JMPBLDR’s administrator privileges on the JMP 19.1 Sonoma testing machine
- Started making changes to WinOS build scripts for JMP 20
- Perforce support.
- Melanie:
- Documentation Processes: I got the automated image checker going again - it had broken after a Python update a while ago (). I also updated email settings, fixed an updated book name, and added a couple of books that were missing from the checks (JMPTOOL-1728) Thanks to Trish who noticed the job wasn't running correctly. • Reset JMPWRITER perforce password and updated the credentials in Jenkins. • Answered some FrameMaker and screenshot scripting questions for Trish.
- DevOps Processes: Worked on calling the UT Log Capture script from Jenkins. • Investigated question from SAS about backups on a server about to migrate to a new storage array - bumped the priority on this item to migrate to JMP storage before that happens (late September). [JMPTOOL-1734] • Investigated and contributed my 2 cents to the Process Screening problem when publishing to JMP Live for 19.0. [JMPHTML-14905] • Started planning for setting up and running Stringbot on main (20.0) and 19.1 in the next couple of weeks. • Helped a very tiny amount with perforce passwords. Huge thanks to Nick Ruva for a very clean switchover for a complicated process!
- Finally, thanks to Jim Borek and Nick Ruva who have gotten a LOT of unit test streams running during the last few weeks to cover 19.0.1, 19.1, and 20.0. Here's the overall status. There's just a couple of ornery machines they're still wrangling with. These graphs (and a lot more) are posted on jmplivedaily: DevOps Reports | JMP Live
WINDOWS
- Shannon L: User support for Atlassian tools, plus configuration updates for IdP certs. Security meetings, including Snyk reviews and PLSR reviews. JMP Marketplace Monetization stakeholder meetings and planning. Weekly technical meetings, including Doc team meeting and JMP Live 19.5 feature release review. Investigating new feature in Atlassian for Service Accounts.
- Shannon C: Discussions around various possible fixes. Weekly technical meetings and catch-ups with team members. Reviewed crash scores table for short uninformative stacks and in the process found a few mystery crashes to investigate. Looked into some 18.X and EA crashes reported by internal users and through JMP TS. Special thanks to Dan Schikore and John Schroedl for help with crash investigations this week!
Localization
- Allison: Prepared and sent out 19.0 GPO production kits to linguists for localization; prepared and sent out DJ SharedTextInsets production kits to vendors; went through the 19.0 Big Books test kits in memoQ to run pre-translations using the TMs that we applied changes to to reflect English source edits; and validated localized JMP Live Public screenshots.
- Krzysztof: Preparing the L10N workflow for big Books hand offs for localizations (memoQ templates, MT, TMs, L10N dashboard). Continued working on mitigating style changes in 19.0 English Doc source impact on pre-translation. Re-testing Jenkins job and scripts that do P4 operations using jmploc after introducing the password. Testing new l10n automation features (Commit and Return scripts for JMP UI).
- Sohail: Automating testing for term extraction and prompt engineering for individual models to extract relevant terms. Fixed converter script to port files to jmptransweb, installed dependencies on new machine, and set up SSH access.
- Trish: Handoff
- of Localized HTML5 help to validate before sending to QA. Worked with doc team to resolve remaining issues blocking handoff of big books to localization.
- Howard: Worked on new delivery QA process for Book project in Dashboard. Integrated memoQ commit project to Dashboard, troubleshooting P4 command with the newly P4 password setup.
- Sandy: Testing of P4 LDAP updates in various Jenkins jobs. Continued new return process development/testing for Sample Data, Builtins, and PortableUI.
Documentation
- Susan C: Reviewed the New in JMP page and worked with Jiras and team to make updates. Wrapped up JMP Live/Public & HTML5 English help work, updated all files in rel/19.0 with the latest. Working on the JMP Live for SPC document.
- Qiana: Reviewed the NIJ page and added my missing items. Reviewed the global changes to the doc that L10N identified. Corresponded with Bob and Tom about the Installation Validation Doc for JMP 19.0. Attended the L-CAB meeting. Deleted unused image files and unlabeled the .png files that will be referenced in the doc going forward. Assisted Tom create screenshot scripts for LS. GPO book updates and handoff to Test and L10N.
- Jill: Working through EG Jiras, creating screenshots and associated JSL scripts, and edited Marketplace add-in information for upcoming feature.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Keeping an eye on the pushes to 20/main so I could verify a few and then push them back to the developers for 19.1; Working on the Discovery Summit paper/presentation, timing and practice before recording in later August; Keeping up with goals and task for 2025.
- Hunter: JIRA verifications. Applied Tahoe Dev. Beta 5 to MDA692 and Macbeta2x86 and ran tests. Still trying to reproduce intermittent problem where test connections from the ODBC Manager on the Tahoe Macs will return errors what accessing the databases on jmpdev2.
Web Testing – Cary
- Anna: Verifying fixes and reviewing issues closed for desktop graph builder in 19.0 and testing them in JMP Live 20.0.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dave B: Reproduced and debugged a zip archive bug that Mandy noticed because of a baseline test that has been failing. Working on a bug with the developed addins dialog when an addin is reinstalled while the dialog is up. Worked with John and Michael on a checkbox/radio button refactoring and column support.
- Morgan: Continuing Git work and working on changing the markup syntax in notebooks to reflect standard Markdown more closely.
- Xan: Writing examples for Scripting Index. Axis ordering for Control Chart Builder. BorderSeg rug plot first draft.
- Dan S: Added context menu options to get box path in selection tool mode. Investigating and fixing crashes.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Finalized the regression modeling set up for my shape analysis add-in. I’ve also been working on tests for our 3d printing project. I realized early on that I am clearly not an engineer, given my disastrous attempts at trying to do some strength testing on these clips. I have since decided to outsource that task to Ryan, who is much more well suited for it. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: On the other hand, heat testing has gone well! It’s become very clear how each type of material we used reacts to the heat, with some being much more resistant than others.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Microsoft has provided a workaround to the sparse matrix multiplication performance regression and a fix has been pushed to 19.1 and 20.0. Thanks to Jacob Rhyne for testing the change while away at JSM! Discussion and reviews of ongoing clipping work. Started on related work related to using the OS share sheet. Working on Windows changes to support multiple columns in radio- and check boxes. Met to hash out build and installer plans for adding ARM support. Had a few meetings related to icon and accessibility plans in JMP 20. Various crash investigations.
- Will: Updated the MATLAB Send File() function to include all available data table types (JMP-27339). Updated the MATLAB patch when installing to revert the state of the python package back to the pre-patched version (JMP-27308). Also working on other miscellaneous MATLAB fixes.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Currently working on JMPHTML-14080 (Exported date format changes depending on Regional settings), have a fix ready but am doing extra testing since there are many combinations of formatting that could be affected. Also migrated the fix for JMPHTML-14740 (Bars for first Group are not correct) into the 19.1 branch.
- Praveena:
- John Powell: Committed support for Scatterplot 3D tooltips (JMPHTML-14132). Preparing to record an on-demand video for JMP Discovery 2025 in Austin.
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Working on fixing crash bugs reported by customers (JMP-27505 and JMP-27491). I also made progress on adding new feature of multivariate normality test JMP-26678 to multivariate platform.
- Annie:
- Fixing Jira tickets and integrating changes into 19.1.
- Practicing my Discovery talks in preparation for the recordings later this month.
- Working with Xan on the new Term method for sorting for use in GB & CCB.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Working on bug verification and unit test cleanup.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Add-ins that leverage python-docx API for parsing and generating DOCX files if JMP tables and tabulates. JMP Clinical 19.1 and 20.0 Jiras. JMP Clinical DevOps support. JMP Clinical security vulnerability mitigation.
- Yiran: Wrapped up my work with add-in submitted to the marketplace and blog post to go. Presented in SAS expo with some great feedback.
- Richard: Enjoyed JSM and taught a half day course on applied improvisation to statisticians and data scientists.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Happy Friday! We have enjoyed the intern presentations over the last two weeks. We would like to extend our appreciation to Chris Gotwalt for his BayesOpt presentation and to those who have organized the Global Technical Enablement JMP 19 training sessions. We look forward to the upcoming sessions through August and into September.
- 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:
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Annie Dudley for sharing this beautiful picture! I think we all need to see some blue skies after the rainy week it’s been in Cary… :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Annie says, “Here’s a photo of me and my son Arthur while we were on a research expedition through Earthwatch 2 weeks ago in Andorra.” Annie and Arthur were research volunteers with an Earthwatch group expedition. You can read more about the Earthwatch nonprofit organization here including opportunities to participate in similar trips.
Have a great weekend!
