19.0: installer validation • 19.0.1: security fixes only until 10/2 • 19.1: all changes require code review – approval begins 12/11 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA1: 1/22/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 26, 2025! Please note that there will be no update next week since we will be off for our Global Rest and Recharge day on Friday, October 3!
Testing for the Mac JMP Student Edition 19.0.1 permission fix has been ongoing this week. Thanks very much to Jim Borek for working with Michael Hecht on a fix and to Hunter Weaver and Audrey Shull for working through various configurations to ensure that this fix will be ready to go! PLSR reviews for 19.0.1 have been ongoing this week and security freeze for the track is on October 2.
We are about a month away from JMP 19.1 Feature freeze, planned for October 23. Please remember that any feature work undertaken in the 19.1 track needs to be represented on the JMP 19.1 Features page.
Also, all feature and bug related source code changes must be reviewed before being pushed to the 19.1 track. Please include the name of your reviewer in your changelist description. It is a JMP best practice to push source code changes to main first, allow them to be verified by testing, and then integrate them into the 19.1 track for final testing rather than pushing to both tracks at once.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the combined EA reports for all of JMP 19 data found here. Here is a treemap of Subtopic, but many more graphs can be found in JMP Live.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.0.1 Security Freeze – 10/02/2025
- JMP 19.0.1 Release in MyJMP – 10/14/25
- JMP 19.1 Feature Freeze – 10/23/25
- JMP 19.1 Code Approval Mode - 12/11/25
- JMP 19.1 Code Freeze – 1/5/26
- JMP 19.1 Security Freeze – 2/19/26
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Xan: Better marker packing with skewed sizes; footer now included in exported Graph Builder graphs; geodesic scales are stickier; new Line Order option that avoids wrap-around connections: Row Ascending (easier spaghetti plots).
- Evan: Added Copy Table and Share Table for Tabulate, CrosstabBox, and AlignmentGridBox. All three should now paste relatively well into Office, Teams, Jira, etc though there is still some refinement to do. Working on some minor accessibility/automation improvements.
- Dan S: Fixed a broadcast issues for Presets, and a few auto-broadcast issues on button/checkbox actions in some platforms. More refactoring of platform launchers for more uniform behaviors when a scripted launch is not complete. Fixed a SendToReport/Dispatch issue that regressed in JMP 19. Updating several platforms that support multiple Y to store SendToReport/Dispatch separately on each object.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul N:
- Fixing JMP-28115 - recent repository updates for rpy2, had broken the R Integration if you didn’t already have it installed on Windows. Needed to update the allowed rpy2 package to >= 3.6 which caused a need to fix some python code in jmpex package, as rpy2 3.6 deprecated some of the calls used to convert between numpy and R, and pandas and R. Fixes have been pushed to 19.1 and 20.0. I will look to push to 19.0.1 once testing gives the all clear. This affects the entire R Integration in 19, but so far only 1 JMP 19.0 customer has contacted tech support.
- Security support – Researched enough proof that Snyk updated their database. Four Python issues that have been reported since Python 3.13.3, have been false positives since 3.13.4. Got tired of triaging them so I pulled together enough info to convince Snyk they were indeed false positives.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed an issue with Cell Plot colors in Two Way Hierarchical Clustering when Standardized By Rows is used (JMPHTML-2205).
- Detect new Order By Rows/Row Runs feature and render static in Heatmaps that don’t support it yet(JMPHTML-14978).
- Make unsupported Hierarchical Clustering with By Groups render static(JMPHTML-14973).
- Integrated fixes into JMP 19.1.
- Attended to failing HTML Template build system.
- Published the Scatterplot 3D examples I used in my video for JMP Discovery to JMP Public (JMP 19 Scatterplot 3D Examples | JMP Public).
- Q3 Check-in conversations.
- Mike Stickles:
- Merged fix for JMPHTML-14483 (GB: Line: Stacked chart yields different result w/Ordering=Summarized) into 19.1
- Merged fix for bug JMPHTML-14974 (Unsupported legend types MarkerSizeCat, CellSize and Arrow don't get specific log messages) into 19.1
- Completed fix for JMPHTML-14919 (GB: Line: Chart w/Ordering=Within Row not persisted correctly, should render static for now), pushed into main branch.
- Identified JMPHTML-14920 (GB: Line: Connected arrows chart w/legend OFF gives Unsupported legend style message) as having been fixed by JMPHTML-14919 and JMPHTML-14974, referred for testing.
- Began work on JMPHTML-14900 (GB: Bar: Range bar style display not persisted correctly).
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5 - Update some third-party packages. Add pub-sub for change to post ownership. 20.0 - File some Jiras for triage in process screening. Other - GitKraken renewal, data exploration for a Discovery talk idea, investigating regen failures that seem to only happen on my machine (thanks to Aaron Andersen for his help).
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Triaging old JIRAs and working on the fix for JMP-15033 to make color themes consistent across the multivariate platform. Thanks to Dan Schikore for his help, so that I can make changing Partial Correlation Diagram easy with newly selected dimensions. Partial Correlation Diagram is also improved by adding the color theme legend.
- Laura C-S: Continue preparing for the SEM Technically Speaking presentation on real-world industry applications. I’ve researched a lot of studies in a variety of fields, looked for data to download, replicated analyses, made slides, and recorded videos with JMP for the demos in the prez.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Participated in interviews for new statistical development manager positions. Continued work with Jill and doc teams to update JMP Documentation Style Guide. Worked with Susan to alleviate effects of a broken FrameScript in the post-production tasks. Meetings to discuss various ongoing projects.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Working on beta reports, a beta presentation to give to JMP Dev, cleaning up unit tests, and bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Submitted Tabulate to DOCX Table add-in to JMP Marketplace. Finished features for Clinical 19.1. Bug fixes in 19.1/20.0.
- Richard: Completed Exposure Summary report. Completed updated slides for full day course Data Visualization with Applications to the Life Sciences.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: This week we had our final sales enablement training for the year. This session was focused on 5 of JMP Pro’s “hidden gems” that sales can use to continue growing the reach of JMP Pro in their accounts. We had a lot of great feedback from this session, and if you would like to watch it back
here is the link to the recording.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Below are the usual graphs for case volume as well as topics for both Tech Support and Engagement. We are currently working on several projects with regard to the case management, including updating our Topic and Subtopic values. We anticipate that when these updates are complete, we will be able to provide better insight into what users are asking the Support teams.
- 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
- Shannon L: JMP Marketplace Monetization platform stakeholder detailed project planning, plus stakeholder meeting with JMP Store development team. Reported Atlassian tooling bugs and provided user assistance on several topics. Weekly technical meetings plus monthly Doc/L10N meeting. PLSR security meetings for the 19.0.1 release, which has security freeze on Oct 2.
- Melanie: Stringbot: 19.1 Stringbot Is running normally. Please update your strings if you received an email with warnings. Main is a work in progress – Myron and Nick are still investigating the crippling performance problem. • JMP Live * DevOps: Uncovered a JMP Live problem with updating a table and then also replacing its graphs. ) Thanks, Eric!
- Bob: Updated Student Addin for 19.0.1/19.1.0/20.0.0 for use by installers. Transitioned from years-old desktop to new laptop - not without issues.
Reviewed installer use case of updating in place.
- Jim: Performed many mac machine OS updates. Decommissioned many Windows and Macintosh JMP build and testing machines. Continued work on JMPTOOL-1721.
- Shannon: Q3 catch-ups with team members. Investigated several JMP 19 crashes with developers. Weekly technical meetings.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Working on finalizing the new, easier, and faster processes for UI Commits and Returns. We will use it for 19.1 PortableUI, Builtins and SampleData. Testing updates to Books related Jenkins jobs that synchronize l10nsource_test P4 area with l10nsource (for testing jobs against l10nsource_test). Preparing internal retrospective of 19.0 HTML5 and JMPLivePublic building expiriences.
- Allison: I had my Q3 goals conversation with Trish. Completed a Project Management related training course and watched the training video and read guidelines on the new JMP Procurement system. Communicated with JMP Procurement regarding how to go about getting work orders for existing POs. Responded to translation queries from BigBooks project and validated localized screenshots for 19.0 DJ.
- Howard: Create a new feature allows editing project template in the Dashboard. Added upstream job to create l10nsource_test area to match with the production for all Jenkins job that uses P4. Some debugging tasks.
- Ying: Ongoing capture of localized DJ screenshots for JMP 19.0; completed ZH and DE. Ongoing capture of localized SharedTextInsets screenshots for JMP 19.0; completed DE, ES, JA and ZH.
- Sohail: Presented and tested implementations of CI/CD testing and AI code review solutions, updated term base files and extraction script, and added additional test cases for LLM term extraction.
- Sandy: More development/testing on new return jobs and commit job for Sample Data, Builtins, and PortableUI. Debugged some issues with the Jenkins populate job.
- Trish: Planning for 19.1. ZIP training & discussions with Procurement related to POs for documentation. Q3 check-ins.
Documentation
- Susan C:
- Working with Shannon L on the 19.1 Jiras, nearly there.
- Working with Chris on the noindex tagging for old JMP Live/Public & HTML5 help.
- Listening to latest JMP Live Demo iteration & taking notes, also working on a 19.1 doc issue with Eric that shook out of this iteration.
- Had Q3 meeting with Qiana, working on action items from that meeting.
- Updated our Confluence page for UI strings in preparation for handing over to Jill.
- Working on the JMP Live for SPC guide.
- Confirmed with John P that we will NOT need to update the HTML5 help for 19.1, 19.5, or 19.6.
- Qiana: Worked with Shannon L. and Devon on Oxygen planning and Jiras. Created Documentation Review Plan and Process for Producing JMP 19.1 "As-Is" Help. Updated JMP 19.1 build page. FastPath UAR Training. Project planning and coordination.
- Jill: Updated the Scripting Guide and JSR for the data filter option (JMP-14452); met with Chris to go over changes and reassign the Jira to him; working through the style guidelines, making changes, setting up meetings, and getting estimates for work; working on JMP-11159.
- Devon: Oxygen planning with Qiana and Shannon L, preparation for meeting with Ryffine about Oxygen training for the writing teams, work on creating a new conversion table for the JSL functions and messages in the JSL Scripting Reference book.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Hunter: Tested more with the updated Student Edition 19.0 Installer for Mac that Jim prepared last week. Met with Daniel and Wendy about a new authorization feature to make users aware of upcoming hard check-ins (LM-108). Worked with Daniel for issues encountered on several of my Windows systems with unexpected check-ins while trying to test recent changes for JMP-24720. Participated in interviews with candidates for open testing position. Verifications.
- Mandy: Worked on some more of the test cases with copy paste, and a few other Jiras with fixes for 20 to get to 19.1; wrote a few test cases to cover those fixes. Interviewed candidates for our team. Filed a number of Jiras pertaining to the new MacOS Tahoe and how it is affecting JMP’s appearance. This JIRA is the Epic and if you find issues that are not listed here, feel free to add child issues here: JMP-28052.
- Nick H: Continuing work on STK add-in testing. Working on diagnosing an issue where failure counts were negative in the jmptooldev version of the testing dashboard. I also had to spend some time setting up a new computer since my old windows 10 machine is going out of support soon.
- Audrey: Testing a fix for JMP Student. Interviews. Brainstorming with Mike Muhlada about the future of Mimic - a JMP UI testing framework.
Web Testing – Cary
- Anna: Reported issues for:
- CCB w/by group connect lines
- Web Map Services background map not displayed in JMP Live
- Map markers not visible & moved when hide & exclude row
- GB support new Order By Granularity=Rows | Row Runs feature Xan just added
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Note from Shannon
Russ Wolfinger passed along this interesting conversational use of the JMP Assistant by an internal tester – apparently it has a sense of humor (although its spelling may need some work)! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: Hope you all have a great weekend!
