19.0: installer validation • 19.0.1: security fixes only until 10/2 • 19.1: code review until 9/30 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA1: ~Jan. 2026 (exact date TBD)
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 5, 2025!
Testers continued their final installer validation work this week for JMP 19.0 in anticipation of QA signoff next week. PM, marketing, doc and localization teams also continued to finalize their deliverables in preparation for the launch of JMP 19. Dan Valente shared that product management released the JMP 19 webcast yesterday and notified the 464 people who had already pre-registered for it. You can share the webcast link with your network at jmp.com/launch - anyone who signs up now will get immediate access. If you want to watch it, here is an internal link, but please share the jmp.com/launch link externally so that PM can continue to capture interest through the Salesforce campaign. Additionally, the product marketing team held their second sales enablement training this week in preparation for the launch, sharing launch-related resources and partnering with sales colleagues who spoke about the importance of a new software release as an opportunity to reach out to customers. You can find the recording here.
With JMP 20 feature work in full swing, you may be considering integrating minor new features that have already been tested in 20 into the 19.1 track. Any new work being considered for integration into 19.1 needs to be discussed with your manager and added to the JMP 19.1 Features page here with an assessment of impact to various downstream teams. Feature freeze for JMP 19.1 is on 10/23/25 and we won’t be able to accommodate late feature work due to the shortness of this cycle, so please scope your work accordingly.
Thanks to everyone for triaging remaining bugs with Planned Version = 19.0! The number of items has dropped dramatically in the past few weeks. I have also noticed people triaging items for other tracks and cleaning up their to-do lists by marking items as resolved or Won’t Fix where appropriate.
Thanks very much to Ryan Gilmore and Mike Anderson for presenting on the new math equation editor available in the JMP user community! They partnered with iTalent on this new editor which takes Latek-formatted equations as input. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Finally, thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases for the last 2 weeks with crashes selected!
https://jmplivedaily.dev.jmp.com:3501/packages/QDN5QmvSK6QxfFJLX2FHc
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19 QA Signoff – 9/11/25
- JMP 19 posted to MyJMP – ~9/16/25
- JMP 19.1 Feature Freeze – 10/23/25
- 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 held our second sales enablement training on the JMP 19 launch. This session was all about best practices for sales to follow for JMP launch to help get customers to the latest version of JMP. We had Todd Hoffman, Lauren Vaughan, Nicole Pelaez, and Stuart Little present to sales on the importance of launch. At the end we reviewed all of the resources that were available to use once JMP 19 is launched. We have a lot of excitement surrounding the launch! If you would like to watch this session you can
find the recording here.
- Bryan F: Finished adding ability to add multiple choice questions to the U-Study tool. Worked with JMP Live team members (Adrianna Beck, Michael Goff, Justin Chilton) on column panel icons and editing behavior. Received help from Evan McCorkle with respect to using telemetry data in ways similar as to what was shown in his User in the Room talk. Received legal approval to use FluentUI System Icons in JMP and use them for the basis of a couple of recent icon request (JMP-27849 & JMP-15682). Reviewed use of icons in the menu bar on macOS Tahoe. Received recommendations from Greg Kraus on potential contractors we could use to perform a JMP usability assessment.
Technical Support and Engagement
Case Volume by Support Team:
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Bob:
- Studied, discussed, and met concerning elevated permission issues that are present with our digital signing
- My JMP testing completed for dynamic naming issue of download files. In production now.
- Worked with Michael Crotty to finalize NIST validation for version 19
- Met with Roger Alford to discuss best practices for what will be monthly updates to installer validation files with version 19
- Scanned through and updated a few installer and release relate confluence pages to keep them up to date.
- Jim: I greatly appreciate Kimi Wang’s investigation, reporting, and verification of JMPTOOL-1747.
- Processing assertion failures from latest Debug UT run of JMP Pro 20 on WinOS; awaiting completion of ASAN UT run on mac OS.
- Shannon L: Additional configuration testing and validations for Atlassian Service Account usage, and additional user support for Atlassian tools. More JMP 19.0 Bug clean-up. Drafted 19.0 security bulletin for review. Weekly technical meetings plus regular product security reviews. Assisted with new X.X.3 emergency bug fix process. In process on Bitbucket renewals via Zip. Reviewing JMP hardware/VM usage at SAS. Several discussions regarding SBOMs.
- Melanie: Sample Data: Reviewed revisions for NYC 311 Records [JMP-26619] • Branching Processes: Working with Qiana and Trish to determine when doc/loc auto-integration projects can be started for 20.0 and 19.1 • Stringbot: Testing a solution to extreme slowness – we plan to run Stringbot for 19.1 this weekend and start up Stringbot for main next weekend – Thanks to Myron and Nick for troubleshooting and finding a solution! •
- Myron: Set up stringbot 19.1 to start production run. Set up assign element owner jobs on jmptooldev (JMPTOOL-1741). Debugged image diff results on jmptooldev (JMPTOOL-1737).
Localization
- Krzysztof: Continued helping to build localized JMP Live Help for 19.0 (style fixes, translation fixes). Finished a review framework (tool, documentation, and scripts) for reviewers of machine translated Add-ins. Testing new l10n automation functionalities.
- Sohail: Set up LLM-based term validation script and post-processing sanitization. Evaluated and tuned model prompts and improved output accuracy by fine-tuning parameters.
- Ying: Building Help for JMP Live 19.0 in all localized languages and resolved issues encountered during the build process. Finished creating pdf for Group Policy Objects 19.0 for KO.
- Sandy: Fix commit process to handle dot releases properly. Testing new Jenkins job for new commit process.
- Trish: Continue to work on JMP Live Localized help.
Documentation
- Devon: Various Scripting and UG Jiras: JMPDOC-1567, JMP-21038, JMP-27348, resolving conflicting logic issues in conversion table for JMP functions and messages in the JSL Syntax Reference book, preparing for vacation next week to the Azores.
- Susan C: Reviewed the German and French JMP Live/Public help. Addressing JMP Live/Public Jiras from localization. Reviewed Krzysztof’s script in Jenkins that copies the content from our build machine to EXP.
- Qiana: Meetings. Work items: JMPDOC-2479, JMP-27129, JMP-19976, and JMP-26619. Worked on the procurement process for Syncro Soft (oXygen). Triaged Jira work items. Project planning and coordination.
- Jill: Researching and updating EG and UG Jira issues. Finalizing JMP style guidelines.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Started helping with interviews for our testing team. Worked on some JIRA’s, testing and trying to write tests if needed. Worked on a few TS track issues and filed Jira’s. Chased down and replicated a crash I had hit in the JSL UT framework and passed it to Michael Hecht. Continuing to work through Jira’s for 20 and 19.1, adding tests as needed and reporting feedback on feature changes.
- Nick H: Started work with Lisa on our interviews for the new open position on Audrey’s team. Finished up installer testing after finding a few non-show stopping bugs. Lastly, I’ve started on some 20, planned for 19.1 verifications, including trying out a new automated way of testing Scripting Index prototype changes.
- Audrey: JMP 19 final installer validation is going well! We expect to sign off early next week. Updated the Verifications Dashboard to have a JMP 20 section and a JMP Live section. Interviews are ongoing. Working with staff to sort out various hardware needs.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 19 final installer testing, interview with candidate for testing position, applied Tahoe Dev. Beta 9 to the host testing Macs in lab, JIRA verifications, and reviewing PDF files.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Evan: Improvements to cut/copy/paste in the Data Table Scripts panel. Starting Share Graph and Share Table in context menus. Conducted an inventory of AutoRecalc defaults for each Platform (Default On/Off and Fixed/Changeable).
- Xan: Error interval color issues; Graph Builder size will increase for a script with large axes; fix transform scoping Exclude dependency.
- Ernest: Made new filter input mode the default; visible in UI when you click in the edit field. Pushed linked stack/split/transpose.
Interactive HTML
- Paul Spychala: Working on issues and improvements for 20/19.1. This cumulative for the last couple weeks since I didn’t report anything in those weeks.
- GB: Parallel: Select one line in chart and two are highlighted [JMPHTML-14904]
- GB: X Group Edge Bottom display needs to be polished up [JMPHTML-14907]
- Stretching graphs in a dashboard on JMP Live behaves differently than in JMP [JMPHTML-14796]
- Scroll Box with only one ScrollBar still creates both on HTML [JMPHTML-14915]
- Prediction Profiler Rendering Issues w/Blocking Factor | Not Displaying [JMPHTML-14773]
- BF: Bootstrap Forest Prediction Profiler charts empty with transform column response [JMPHTML-982]
- JMP Live Graph Builder: Magnifier Reset Misplaces Marker Positions after Exclude and Zoom in [JMPHTML-14922]
- It is hard to resize graphs [JMPHTML-14930] (although more changes are coming for this Jira)
- GB: Points: Scroll axis, exclude and hide selected rows and range reverts back to initial values [JMPHTML-14826]
- Profiler Axis button don't use '...' when exporting a narrow frame [JMPHTML-13669]
- And several updates to the rewrite of handling JMPLive commands
- John Powell:
- Fixed an issue with Dot markers in Scatterplot 3D were rendering larger than the desktop when a high perspective value was used(JMPHTML-14567).
- Fixed an issue with incorrect marker shapes being used in Graph Builder when two X or Y roles were applied(JMPHTML-13727).
- Warn the user and record a telemetry message when an unsupported marker Selection mode is used(JMPHTML-13801).
- Suppressed unsupported Profiler Data Points from being shown incorrectly in Interactive HTML(JMPHTML-13889).
- Suppressed unnecessary tag line from marker to marker label(JMPHTML-14463).
- Met to discuss triaging warnings and alarms from the Process Screening platform in JMP Live.
- Discussed features supported/not supported in Interactive HTML with Sarah Sylvestre.
- Participated in an Interactive HTML team retrospective.
- Triaged open bugs to choose some to fix in JMP 19.1.
- Mike S: Completed much of the analysis of JMPHTML-14483 and JMPHTML-14484 (Stacked line issues where ordering causes HTML to show an incorrect graph); currently in the tedious work of finding the right parameter combination to detect a precalculated line without false detections. Currently taking a break from that to work on examining two issues created by recent JMP changes; will be logging Jira tickets for those once they’re properly defined and have clear reproduction cases.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.1 - Small control chart triage improvements. 19.5 - Changing the ownership of a post (GraphQL API for finding all deleted users). 20.0 - Conversations about triage in process screening. Miscellaneous - Working with Luiza Fabreti and Spyros Megalou on an idea for Discovery Europe 2026. Review some JMP Live onboarding videos by Mike Anderson.
Statistics
- In Process Screening the saved Details table has a new field "Active Alarms" that just show the alarms that are turned on, and there is a new command "Save Alarm Table" that saves the same fields as "Save Details Table", but only for the process items that have active alarms (JMP-27844).
- In Generalized Linear Model, added the save command "Prediction and Interval Formulas" (JMP-27859).
- For a number of platforms, it turns out that for ScriptItems of the enumerated type (EnumProperty) it is often better to not specify a .protoType clause because the Scripting Index will generate one automatically, showing all the enumerated choices available. I looked at the 80 ScriptItems that had both EnumProperty and .prototype, and removed the .prototype where that would improve it (JMP-27880). This is part of the initiative to improve the Scripting Index for LLM's. (JMP-27234)
- In the profiler platform (the one that uses formula columns) I have begun an initiative to change from expanding intermediate formulas, to use assignments instead to temporary slots. When complete this will vastly improve performance for formulas with large intermediates, as produced by Neural, for example. The problem is that they reevaluate the same expressions repeatedly, when it is better to just evaluate them once and reuse the value. This will later be put to use in Formula Depot as well. (JMP-27875)
- Laura C-S: Fixed a measurement invariance bug in SEM with MIIV-2SLS and a couple smaller bugs. Met with Christian Stopp to finalize our abstract for Technically Speaking and sent it to marketing. Also started working on slides for this same presentation. Met with Chris to discuss how to estimate polychoric correlations’ covariances. Gave feedback on an upcoming patent article for InsideJMP.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewing the word list from SAS Advanced Analytics Division to see which words we should include in the JMP documentation terminology list. Finished revisions of Numerical Accuracy (NIST) white paper for 19.0 (with Rajneesh’s help) and sent files to Bob Hickey for publication to the web here.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Spent several days transferring to a new Windows computer. I continued the image analysis of parts made by additive manufacturing. I helped Kasia and Yeng with their plenary.
- Jacob: Verifying DOE Jira tickets and adding unit tests. Testing new Space Filling Design table scripts. Preparing for FTC, with Mark Bailey.
- Tonya: Testing the new CCB sorting changes and working on bug verification.
Note from Shannon
Here’s one for all the cat people out there, from meowningtons.com which has a lot of cute Milton the cat comics. Hope you all have a great weekend!
