19.0.3: final image candidates 12/7/25 • 19.1: all changes require code review – approval begins 12/11/25 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA1: 1/22/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 5, 2025!
In the US, I hope everyone enjoyed the time off for Thanksgiving! As we near the end of the year, there are a lot of holidays coming up. Don’t forget to use your floating holiday allocation, if you haven’t already done so. Sorry I didn’t send out the (wonky, weekends-last) December holidays calendar earlier, I’m told we already missed Cookie Day. Darn! But don’t worry, you can eat cookies any day and Ugly Christmas Sweater Day is just around the corner!
A reminder that we are entering JMP 19.1 Approval Mode at the end of the day on Thursday 12/11/25. There should be an Outlook reminder on your calendar with more details about the Code Approval process. (If you don’t have one, please contact Melanie Drake and she can refresh the invite). Here are the basics:
- Discuss any proposed fixes for approval mode with your manager first
- Push a fix into 20 for pre-testing, if at all possible
- Request a code review on your shelved change prior to pushing any code to 19.1
- Request approval from the JMP Approvers list. Email the list to say when you have received 4 approvals, or if you need additional ones to get to 4.
I noticed in the InsideJMP Anniversaries, New Hires, On the Move, and Kudos: November 2025 article that there was a nice kudos from stat doc manager Michael Crotty to doc team member Jill Amaya recognizing her work on a unified JMP doc style guide for technical and stat writers! Jill says that this was a great collaborative effort between our writing teams and everyone is glad to have a single source to use. Thanks to our doc teams for collaborating on this shared resource!
And I also saw in the article that principal developer David Barbour of the Core team celebrated his 30 year milestone anniversary! I have worked a lot with Dave over the years, mostly bugging him for his help with JMP crashes (which he always graciously provides with superb detail) and marveling at how he can replicate some of the most puzzling cases with a snippet of JSL after peering into the magical crash files that are Greek to me. In addition to his feature work on Multiple File Import, PDF import, journals, add-ins, Graph Builder and various other areas of JMP, Dave is of course also well-known as the inventor and maintainer of the Windows jmprunner application. Many of us in R&D use jmprunner daily while investigating issues in desktop JMP. Just this week Dave added the ability for jmprunner to work with our new Windows ARM builds and he is always working on tweaks in response to internal customer requests. Please join me in offering a big congrats on this milestone!
Also, thanks to birthday boy Bob Hickey (he celebrates tomorrow!) for sending out an email this week with details about our existing mechanism to get installers from OneDrive. If you missed it, you can find the details here in Confluence. OneDrive sync is the best way for development staff to get their favorite flavor of JMP installers copied to their machines daily. Also, Bob mentioned that JMP’s Salesforce instance has an update period over the weekend so some SF-related systems may be in read-only mode.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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
- Dan S: Continued work on refactoring Platform Launch and Accessibility for screen readers. Enabled JMP 20 Preference for "Use Column References in Dispatch". 19.1 integrations for Order-By issue in Contour Plot with multiple Y, a crash in Column Switcher, a crash in Graph Builder with a row-state transform column used in the data filter, and a crash in App Builder with a Data Table view in the app/dashboard.
- Dave B: Fixed a customer report bug in mfi and column names. Crash investigation and fixing crash reader pdb search algorithm and starting to search for arm64 pdb files.
- Ernest: Reworked UI of Summary and added ability to save the configuration. Let me know if you don’t like the look or can’t figure out how it works. I hope to do something similar with other DataTable tools dialogs.
- Xan: Mosaic labeling, table row tick label collisions, make more GRect arguments const, value labels in shape files.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: This week, I worked on a prototype for a new acceptance sampling platform that would extend the current capabilities in the acceptance sampling explorer. I also did work on the sample size explorers infrastructure to make things easier for adding new explorers.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul: JMP-28966 - Security update of Python to 3.13.10 was released on Dec 2. Updated JMP 20 and plan to update 19.1 on Monday. Stringbot fixes I 19.1 and 20. Fixed Analyzer warnings. Also researching code and add-in security for paid Marketplace add-ins.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Improved support for disambiguating when a column’s value label property defines a label to be used for multiple categories that don’t have assigned value labels(JMPHTML-15075).
- Fixed a crash when a column’s value label property defines a label to be used for categories that don’t have assigned value labels and that label contains a quotation mark(JMPHTML-15144).
- Held an end of JMP 19 development cycle retrospective.
- Created and began planning our first JMP 20 sprint where we will focus on refactoring.
- Refactored Scatterplot 3D SceneBox code to pull support for the Display3DPointsSegment into its own JavaScript class and make room for more 3D Graphics support (JMPHTML-15146).
- Tracked down Jira items that have or will support a user’s wish list(Urgent JMP Live functionality needs - JMP User Community).
- Reviewed JMP Live SPC documentation.
- Paul Spychala: Initial commit of Contour Profiler (JMPHTML-13612) in interactive HTML and JMPLive. This will enable the standalone contour profilers in the graph menu as well as embedded contour profiler in platforms that support html profilers. Also sneaking in a few bug fixes into 20/19.1. Layout issues with lineup boxes (JMPHTML-15139, JMPHTML-15137)
. Treemap Label don’t draw when font is extra small [JMPHTML-15072.
Fit to Window issues with Fast Marker Mode (JMPHTML-15156). Treemap tooltip issues when value label is empty string [JMPHTML-15159).
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- Mike Stickles: Completed work on JMPHTML-14956 (Band style error bars not exported properly with points in graph builder with a color variable). Changes submitted and issue passed to testing. Made progress on JMPHTML-577 (Error intervals are missing color). Participated in refactoring sprint planning.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.0: Reviewing "JMP Live for SPC" documentation. 19.5: Support download of history of multiple warnings in a report. 20.0: Support for Process Screening Tests (Alert, Alert Increasing, Action, Out of Spec).
Statistics
- John Sall
- In the Contour Profiler, fixed dialog and initial settings issues in Clipping feature; fixed in 19.1 also (JMP-28945).
- In Process Screening
- Many of these items were prioritized in meetings organized with product manages earlier this week in harmonization discussions.
- Fix boundary for out-of-spec formula (JMP-28863),
- In Launch dialogm if use checked Show All Charts, don't change it again through callbacks (JMP-28867),
- In Limits table auto-select _LSL and _USL over other names (JMP-28467),
- More Capability Details fixes (JMP-28833, JMP-28746),
- More triage fixes (JMP-28875, JMP-28546),
- New command "Color Out of Control Values" (JMP-28932),
- New command "Connect Through Missing" (JMP-28940),
- New launch option "Include Missing Categories" (JMP-28975,JMP-23706,JMP-23659),
- Treat excluded observations like CCB, scored, but excluded from statistics for limits (JMP-5253).
- Laura C-S: Fixed and integrated several bugs to 19.1 (one more to go)! Continued collaborating with Zhiwu at P&G on SEM analyses. Attended D&I meeting and requested an Inside JMP article for recruiting new D&I work group members (please reach out if you’re interested).
- Laura L: Added a “Sort by Subgroup” option to the Process Capability platform in JMP 20 so that it can match Control Chart Builder and Process Screening, which already have this option
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Finished interviews and made an offer to a summer intern candidate who accepted the offer. Cleaned up some help key issues in stat platforms and chapters for 19.1. Reviewed the MathType plugin for Oxygen and produced various equations for Doc/L10N Oxygen testing. Continued work on documentation updates for 19.1. Helped Colleen deliver gifts for 2 families that Stat R&D adopted through the Wake County Holiday Cheer program.
Stat Testing
- Mark: I attended another tour of the reliability platforms by Rajneesh. I continue investigating inconsistencies between vetted historical predictions and new predictions by the Bayesian Optimization platform for 400 cases with help from Jacob. I discovered a drastic slowdown in the Fit Line command of Bivariate when there are many By groups since a recent change in JMP 20 for a progress bar. I am running simulations to discover and validate a transformation of the current distribution of random coefficients used in the response simulation in DOE to yield a desired output range from the user.
- Tonya: Attended a harmonization meeting about Process Screening, CCB, and Process Capability. I've been testing new features in Process Screening. I've also been looking for differences between the 3 platforms (Process Screening, Process Capability, and Process Screening).
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: Happy Friday! We look forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday at the Winter Potluck!
- We would like to express our appreciation to the developers who have already volunteered to be available to Technical Support and Engagement for urgent support issues that may arise during the upcoming Winter Break: Brian Corcoran, Daniel Powell, Aurora Tiffany-Davis, Chris Humphrey, Laura Lancaster, and Russ Wolfinger.
- 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 (excluding Restricted Party Screening cases):
Development Operations
- Melanie:
- Updated tables for Branching and End of Release Jiras; We’ll be creating 19.0.4 Branching tasks and 19.0.3 End of Release tasks on Monday.
- Worked with Qiana and Krzysztof to make sure Sample Data updates for 19.1 are ready for localization.
- Reviewed and updated some Jiras for data integrity (making sure that Planned and Fix versions match up with what really happened, etc)
- Verified and closed some DevOps Jiras for completed work.
- Added notes to Discovery Summit pages (Austin, Japan, Korea)
- Dividing December tasks and “This is a problem for Next Year” tasks. (Spoiler: way more of the latter than the former)
- Shannon L: Wrapping up the 19.0.3 security + emergency bug fix release, with sending out signoff calendar reminders, drafting the security bulletin, and more. JMP Marketplace Monetization project work, including a meeting with R&D. User support for Atlassian tools, plus filing support tickets for issues and improvements. Weekly technical meetings, including end-of-release task planning. Met with Product Management and Doc managers to discuss better approaches for new feature tracking.
- Jim:
- Made a few changes to networking/build scripts on the mac OS JMP 19 build machine (due to the failed builds prior to Thanksgiving)
- Updated a few ODBC drivers on a couple of Mac unit test machines
- Continuing to update the unit test run scripts to execute on the Snapdragon (ARM64) machine
- Cleaned up the Windows 10 unit test machine used for Windows JMP 20 Debug run, hence no results this month; waiting on the replacement machine.
- Myron:
- Continued setting up testing environment on jmptoolprod
- JMPTOOL-1890: updated crashreader.exe used by the crash system to get fixes from Dave B
- Starting some telemetry work w/Evan
- JMPTOOL-1886: creating a JiraBot job to remove invalid mappings
- Bob: Modified arm64 installer logic to not work on x64 PCs. (JMP28350) Investigation into modifying version 20 windows installers to handle required Microsoft installations as a pre-requisite and outside of our current logic.
Localization
- Allison: Processed new Marketplace UI strings and handed the kits off to vendors for localization; investigated and responded to translation queries on BigBooks and Portable UI; communicated with JMP Korea on onboarding new Korean reviewer; pre-processed 19.1 Sample Data strings to prepare for handoff to translation teams.
- Sandy: More development/testing on new return job/commit job for Builtins. Tested inclusion of locked strings for Korean special vendor report we produce. Worked on integrating pytest tests for dashboard wordcount functions we produce for vendors into pipeline.
- Krzysztof: Preparing the 19.1 SampleData hand off (fixed extra line breaks issue in notes, fixed one DOE table, tested the new l10n workflow). Working with the team on the new testing pipeline in bitbucket. Supporting reviewers using memoQweb.
- Trish: Triage of translation queries; getting new KO reviewer onboarded in ZIP & working to get clarity on the process to request contract; Q4 wrap-up planning.
- Howard: Added Jenkins trigger for JMP_UI return. Solving JIRA bot notification problem (disable double email notification). Bug fixes.
- Sohail: Resolved PyTest pipeline integration issues, added API testing, mocked database and HTTP calls.
Documentation
- Qiana:
- Worked on ZIP request #10278: Ryffine_Oxygen migration education and support
- Attended meeting with PM, Doc, and Ops to discuss new feature info
- Worked on JMP-27435, JMP-28955, JMPDOC-2598
- Worked on JMP Queries: 3291, 3296
- Handed off sample data to L10N
- Susan C:
- Finished drafting the JMP Live for SPC document and sent for review. Implementing feedback.
- Working on JMP Live updates to install and user help for 19.1.
- Doing a bit of work on the Release Notes for 19.0.3.
- Gave a presentation to new folks in testing, along with Devon.
- Finished up a few time management courses.
- Interviewing some tech writing interns. Yay!
- Chris: Answered Localization queries. With input from Michael Hecht and Paul Nelson, fixed the Helpkey script. Figured out how to output the converted equations in order. Made some manual corrections to Life Sciences help. Created the Filter Views image scripts that I’d forgotten.
- Devon: Working on the proof of concept for the new JMP web help, looking at how help keys will work in that new help again, gave a presentation with Susan to the new Test team members about the Doc team.
- Jill: Worked on several Jiras for the UG, reviewed the 11/22 and 11/30 UI string reports, and edited a marketplace add-in file and an LS chapter.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: Early testing for 19.0.3, Q4 reviews, hashing out some items with Nicole regarding test framework and ut runs. Our testing org had a great holiday lunch and Prestonwood yesterday!
- Hunter: Worked with Daniel Powell to reproduce intermittent crashes with the arm64 builds of JMP 20 on Windows 11. I want to thank David Barbour for enhancing JMP Runner to now display the Arm64 specific JMP builds! His recent update exclusive to JMP Runner running on Arm64 Windows allows us to select and launch both x64 and Arm64 JMP builds. Ran through installation and authorization (both online and offline) with all four JMP 19.0.3 products on Mac and Windows in preparation for final installer testing next week. Ran some tests for Bob Hickey and Holly Cullen on the My JMP test pages to verify the links for downloading Early Adopter builds including the new links for Arm64 JMP on Windows.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to DOE and Reliability developer Caleb King for sending along this winter picture! He says, “We got 2 inches of snow here in Roanoke! No preschool for Nora today.” Speaking of Roanoke, it was great to see our other Roanoke, VA resident Core team developer Jared Thomas in the office on Thursday. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
