19.0.1: release 10/14/25 • 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 October 10, 2025! I hope you all enjoyed the Global Rest and Recharge Day last week. Thanks to Nick Ruva for kicking off some Perforce database cleanup last Friday so that Perforce could have a bit of time off and come back refreshed. (Thanks to Nick and Melanie for the teams chat about that process that ultimately led to this AI generated image… :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: )
We have now completed all signoffs for JMP 19.0.1, planned to be available in MyJMP on Tuesday 10/14/25. 19.0.1 includes a number of security fixes that will be detailed in the Security Bulletin for this release (to be posted with prior bulletins here). It also has a fix for JMP 19 Student Edition on the Mac and a Python library fix. My team will soon be preparing infrastructure for the 19.0.2 security release, planned for release in mid-November.
If you are working on any story items for JMP 19.1, please make sure they are represented on the JMP 19.1 features page. We’ll be wrapping up all feature work for 19.1 by our feature freeze date of 10/23/25.
If you will be attending one or more of our upcoming JMP Discovery Summits, please contribute your customer notes to the proper Collected notes page in the JMP Discovery Notes Confluence section here. This is a great place to put those ideas that arrived too late for the 19 feature cycle but would make a great addition for 20! Thanks to Mia Stephens for adding the pages for specific upcoming Discovery sessions.
Also, thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for presenting on JMP 19 EA feedback at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. Thank you to Tonya, Nicole Jones, JMP testers and developers for all their work with customers in the 19 EA cycle! The dev team processes a lot of feedback, bugs and crashes reported by internal and external EA users, and our production release is more complete and stable as a result. We’re looking forward to creating the first EA of this new feature cycle in January!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.0.1 Release in MyJMP – 10/14/25 (Tuesday)
- 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
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In Design Space Profiler, run the optimizer to find the Minimum InSpec probability every time you change a limit (JMP-26804).
- In Process Screening, implement Preferences for Chart Options.
- In Process Screening, implement Short Run control charts (JMP-28200).
- Laura C-S: Finished preparing and delivered the Technically Speaking presentation on industry SEM applications along with Christian Stopp. Participated in P&G’s roundtable discussions; prepared a video and shared it with Sarah Springer to support P&G’s needs. Researching a composite-likelihood method for getting the asymptotic covariance matrix of polychoric correlations.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Presented about V19 beta feedback during the weekly JMP Dev meeting. Presented to the JMP Live team about Process Screening and how it relates to CCB. Testing NF of Process Screening such as phases, save limits table, save alarms table, out of spec alarms, and new capability statistics. Bug verification. Completed ACT-Now training we were recently assigned.
Life Sciences Updates
- Happy 25th work anniversary to Geoff Mann, who joined SAS on 10/16/00!
- Richard: Working on a Survival Explorer add-in that redraws Kaplan-Meier plots instantly based on data filter changes. Taught a full day data visualization course for ASA Missouri chapter with Rebecca Lyzinski.
- Drew: Triaged and fixed JMP Clinical 19.1 Jiras. Enhancements to Tabdrewlate to support column groups.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F:
- Working on JMP Discovery Summit Lab content which includes creating an AWS AppStream 2.0 instance for testing and potential deployment in the lab, creating walkthrough scenarios in an HTML format and hosting on AWS via the U-Study tool, and creating Microsoft Forms surveys. Thanks to Sarah Sylvestre for working on the Dynamic Data Table Sorting walkthrough.
- I also want to recognize Brian Corcoran, Dan Schikore, Evan McCorkle, John Schroedl, and Julian Parris for recent development efforts related to making JMP more accessible via a keyboard and screen reader. Recently, John Schroedl was able to overcome a technical hurdle that prevented more progress in the past and Dan & Evan supported the effort. While there is still a long way to go, there has already been tremendous progress. Their innovative work is helping to make JMP inclusive and usable by everyone, regardless of how they interact with JMP. This work could add a new twist to how we test JMP, so I also want to thank Shannon Conners and Audrey Shull for being both supportive and excited about it.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: JMP 19 questions are coming in more regularly now. Below is a high-level view of the topics more closely related to usage since the official release of JMP 19.
JMP 19 Case Topics – Software Related (excludes EA, licensing, authorization, installation, and other non-usage questions)
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:
Development Operations
- Bob:
- Published arm64 20.0.0 Windows installers for JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical, and JMP Student. Continue work to bring scripts into nightly processes.
- Tested images for 19.0.1 built as final image candidates
- Created 19.0.1 installer validation files for web distribution
- Met with SAS IT department to gain traction on instructions for how JMP Dev Ops can take control over permission settings on jmpsrv01 folders and files.
- Shannon L: Initial scoping of Help Key changes needed for Oxygen conversion with Qiana. Reviewed with Salesforce dev team their work needed for JMP Marketplace Monetization platform. Weekly technical meetings plus monthly Atlassian admin meeting. JMP 19.0.1 EOC tasks, including finalizing the security bulletin. Planning for facilitating JMP 19 Launch retrospective. More progress on Atlassian Bitbucket renewals. Small but mighty Atlassian configuration changes - removed extraneous 3rd party login options from login screen. JMP 3rd party library documentation validations.
- Melanie: DevOps Processes: Created new End of Release Tasks for 19.0.1 so we can better keep track of what we’re doing (JMPTOOL-1811: End of Release Tasks for 19.0.1). Created Branching Tasks for 19.0.2 (JMPTOOL-1794: JMP branch event tasks for 19.0.2). SAS Championship-Related Activity: Volunteered to help at the Women’s Day event at Prestonwood on Tuesday. This was my first time volunteering for this event, and it won’t be my last! Sample Data: Reviewed some changes for 19.1. Discovery Summit 2025: Getting ready for lots of travel and presenting!
- Myron: Trying to find a way around the Perforce issues outlined in JMPTOOL-1780, setting up AWS storage space for unit test files (JMPTOOL-1762), and finishing up JMPTEST-1884.
- Shannon C: Discussions about JMP Testing Dashboard in AWS and tester emails summarizing results from the new Testbot database. Investigated several JMP 19.0 customer crashes. Regular technical meetings. Completed required SAS trainings.
Localization
- Allison: Finalized the MDC translations in memoQ and handed off to Ying for PDF creation; submitted WO requests for V19 JMP Documentation localization; investigated and responded to queries related to JMP Documentation from translators; completed Fraud Prevention training.
- Krzysztof: Integrated latest Builtins translations to rel19.1 track. Wrote documentation for vendors about the new review process using memoQweb. Fixing l10n Jenkins jobs. Testing new Commit and Return scripts for JMP UI.
- Sohail: Added additional automated testing for term extraction and dashboard endpoints. Built documentation for how to update and modify CI/CD environment with new test files.
- Howard: Dashboard integration for JMP UI commit/return job, automate the process of preparing baby xlf to be ready to create memoQ project. Some debugging tasks.
- Ying: Ongoing capture of localized DJ screenshots for JMP 19.0. Completed the Acceptable Use of SAS Systems and Networks training.
- Sandy: More development/testing on new return jobs and commit job for Sample Data, Builtins, and PortableUI.
- Trish: Triage of translation queries; working w/procurement for memoQ license renewal for 2026/2027.
Documentation
- Susan C:
- Finished up cloning Jiras for 19.1 and creating Jira boards
- Worked on noindexing older versions of the JMP Live/Public & HTML5 help
- Took a time management course (Find your time management style, highly recommend!)
- Got up to speed on the latest JMP Live Demo iteration (great stuff as usual!)
- Jill: Reviewed the June, August, September, and current October UI strings and sent emails to devs affected, met with Audrey to determine UI standards for Scripting Guide items, and worked on a global change for the EG.
- Devon: Getting started converting the rest of the documentation to XML starting with the Basic Analysis book.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on some JIRA verifications, and also some playpen testing for possible tabulate changes. Discovered a Mac hang/crash with Tahoe that we are debugging – more to come on that later. Attended SAS Championship Women’s Day luncheon Tuesday to hear inspiring stories from strong leaders.
- Hunter: JMP 19.0.1 final installer testing for much of the week. Installed the first nightly installer build of JMP 20 on a Windows ARM64 system and tried a few tests. Worked through issues related to the Innovate Wi-Fi outage that started Thursday afternoon.
- Participated in interviews with candidate for open testing position.
- Audrey: JMP 19.0.1 final validation testing and signoff. Reviewing onboarding materials for new staff starting soon. UT cleanup.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh
- Completed JMP Live 19.0.1 install release testing.
- Created another JMP Live test server at version 19.5 behind a load balancer for Jira verification.
- Conducted rate-limit testing across JMP Live versions 19.1, 19.5, and 20.0.
- Preparing for a new employee to start next week!
- Anna: Added new tests for Axis, Contour, Line of Fit, Heatmap, Points. Creating test programs for new Scripting Index Examples Xan just added. Reported issue for Bubble Plots and Open Street Map background image and narrowed down what's triggering the problem.
Core
- Dan S: Working with Evan and John Schroedl on Accessibility for screen readers. Looking at a potential 19.x fix for a Crash in Categorical (JMP-28290).
- Evan: Accessibility work with Dan Schikore and John Schroedl.
- Dave B: Finding and fixing bug with the axis label reordering
DOE and Reliability
- Bill:
- Implementing functionality to allow users to save/load constraints in DOE platforms using the new constraint tables, as well as converting the Sigma Quality Level explorer into C++.
- Creating slides for presentations I will give at INFORMS Annual Meeting (Oct. 28) and Georgia Statistics Day (Oct. 31) on a recently published paper (joint work with Ryan Lekivetz and Joseph Morgan) called "Combinatorial Testing of Engineered Systems with Hard-to-Change Factors".
- Worked on writing documentation for the contextual discrete choice design add-in which I will talk about at Discovery and also did some writing for a JMP blog post about DOE.
- Last week I was invited to be a program committee member (reviewer) for the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, which I'm excited about. This conference is related to the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization where I presented a paper on a research project I did during my internship.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed Confidence regions with Power scale on the Y axis(JMPHTML-14776).
- Fixed Bubble Plot row count with missing size role values(JMPHTML-1059).
- Fixed Bubble Plot rendering of bubbles with size = 0 (JMPHTML-13701).
- Worked on Local Data Filter issue with a modified filter type(JMPHTML-14230, JMPHTML-14940).
- Submitted Scatterplot 3D blog for editing(CT-1053).
- Improved some log message strings with Jill Amaya’s suggestions.
- Worked with Nick to bring our Windows build machine back online.
- Ended Sprint 19-13 and started Sprint 19-14.
- Process Screening Discussions.
- Mike
- Stickles:
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- Completed work on JMPHTML-14912
- (GB: Box Plot: Normal style boxes appear to be thin instead), including updating eight test images and one test (originals reflected old HTML behavior that no longer matched JMP). Reviewed old Box Plot bugs and referred three (JMPHTML-1276
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JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.1: Fixed AugmentableFoldersQuery for user without allow_publish. 19.5: Improved control chart warning tests. 20.0: Started a list of Process Screening test scenarios. Handle qc_time attribute for Process Screening. Idempotency for changing post ownership.
Note from Shannon
John Powell said that the XKCD comic in my call for updates email this morning inspired him to test the EXPERT METHOD in JMP…Great test case for scatterplot 3D in HTML and JMP Live! Here’s his JMP Live report link: Is the line bent? | JMP Live
Also, thanks to John Sall for passing along the seasonally appropriate cartoon for the CAUSE caption contest for October!
