19.0.3: signoffs complete; release planned 12/16/25 • 19.1: all changes require code review and approval • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA1: 1/22/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 12, 2025!
Congratulations go out this week to the JMP DOE team on the occasion of (another!) patent being issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is titled Interactive Tool for Design and Analysis of Experiments with Different Usage Modes and was issued on 2025-11-18 as U.S. Patent No. 12,475,270, in collaboration with JMP alum Bradley Jones. A copy of the patent has been uploaded to the SAS Sharepoint site: Issued Patents. Well done, team!
JMP 19.0.3 signoffs were completed today and installers are planned to post in MyJMP on next Tuesday, 12/16. Since 19.0.3 includes a small number of functional bug fixes that impact JMP, JMP Student Edition, JMP Pro and JMP Clinical, we will have release notes detailing those changes. Thanks to Susan Conaghan for working with development to finalize release notes this week! Also, thanks to Shannon Leslie for compiling the JMP 19.0.3 Security Bulletins that will be posted to the JMP Trust Center to detail security related updates for our products.
We are now in Approval Mode for JMP/JMP Pro/JMP Student 19.1. As noted in Melanie’s reminder about this milestone, after we enter approval mode, please:
- continue to have your bug fixes reviewed by a colleague – code reviews are required in maintenance!
- send a request to the JMP Approvers email list with the name of your reviewer and information on the proposed change:
- a short description of the issue, Jira link and Swarm link if applicable
- comments on any expected impact of the change for testing
Approvers will reply directly to you and not to the whole list. Once you have received four approvals, please send a note to JMP Approvers to say so. If you are lacking an approver or two, please send another email noting how many approvers you still need to get to the required 4. If any approver replies with an objection to your proposed change, we will either discuss it with dev managers in the next Ops meeting or arrange another time to meet over Teams to discuss the proposed change and decide whether to proceed.
Earlier this week, Robin Betters sent an email reminding us that JMP has our last pick up for the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Holiday Food Drive in Building A in one week. As Robin noted, we would love to fill the bins again before the holidays! Not sure what to donate? Here is some general info I found on the Feeding America blog that you can consider when purchasing items to donate to Interfaith Food Shuttle (or another food pantry):
Food banks accept dry and canned food donations. What does that mean? Basically, any food that is “shelf-stable” or nonperishable – you can keep it in your pantry and it won’t go bad. And remember, only donate food that hasn’t reached its “sell-by” date yet. Specifically, food banks often need items like:
Peanut butter, Canned soup, Canned fruit, Canned vegetables, Canned stew, Canned fish, Canned beans, Pasta (most prefer whole grain), and Rice (most prefer brown rice).
Food banks may also accept personal care and common household items that are not covered by federal or state support programs. If you work remotely or are not planning to be in the office next week, you can also elect to donate to the Interfaith Food Shuttle online here or find a similar organization in your area.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the December 9, 2025, product changes for our Atlassian products!
On December 9, Atlassian rolled out changes to our Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket Cloud sites. A list of relevant changes along with highlighted details and documentation can be found here.
The changes include:
- Jira 'projects' has been renamed to 'spaces'
- Jira calendar now supports week view in addition to month view
- Additional options added to the command palette for Jira
- And more!
Contact Shannon Leslie or any of the other JMP Atlassian admins with questions. Also check out our JMP Atlassian Q&A Teams channel, where this and other Atlassian information will continue to be shared.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.1 Code Freeze – 1/5/26
- JMP 19.1 Doc Freeze – 1/7/26
- JMP 19.1 L10N Freeze - 1/15/26
- JMP 19.1 Security Freeze – 2/19/26
- JMP 19.1 Final Image Candidate – 2/23/25
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Xan: 19.1 fixes for legends and parallel axes; legend sizing: new font measuring and less padding; add partial sharing to unlinked page axis for non-range items (like log or reflines); caption element axis table fixes for variable width axes.
- Evan: Rewriting the Telemetry Explorer Add-In to pull directly from the telemetry database.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Finished some work on improving the sample size explorer infrastructure. I also am finishing up a prototype acceptance sampling platform that extends the current profiler. Nora had the pleasure of two snow days this week!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul: Updated JMP 20 and JMP 19.1 to Python 3.13.11. Researching JMP-29061 – a new tester that came from SAS had PYTHONPATH and pip.ini setting configured which affected JMP and its ability to install packages. Researching ways to further isolate the JMP Python and Pip environment from standard environment variables and config files.
- Will: Finished up some remaining MATLAB Jiras before 19.1 code approval mode began. Working on improving the ODBC based data connectors to properly show and filter schemas when appropriate.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles:
- Pushed fix for issue with fix on JMPHTML-14956 (Band style error bars not exported properly with points in graph builder with a color variable). Issue was then passed by testing and sent back to Development in case the JMP fix that triggered this gets pushed into 19.1 before code freeze.
- Finished fix for JMPHTML-15181 (Render error bars that are sized by variable or count as static). This was necessitated by the same JMP bug fix that triggered 14956.
- Participated in whitebox testing, one Line bug found and logged.
- John Powell:
- Split 3D Points Segment code from SceneBox class into its own JavaScript class(JMPHTML-15146).
- Refactored duplicated code to parse GroupRowStateAbility information(JMPHTML-14713).
- Started to investigate upgrading three.js from version 148 to the latest – version 180( JMPHTML-15152) .
- Performed a day of whitebox testing, met to discuss findings, and create bugs.
- Discussed JMP Live user’s Wish List items with Dieter and Paul.
- Brainstormed ideas for saving changes made while viewing a report on JMP Live with Justin, Michael, and Paul.
- Provided input for year-end review
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5: Helped out with testing. Fixed a few small bugs. 20.0: Made great progress on supporting qc_group for Process Screening triage. Other: Wrote a few Confluence articles, sprint planning, answering some questions about admin roles in JMP Live.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Documented a few features in 19.1 for Fit Model and Reliability Forecast. Worked with Karen, Colleen, and Hamid to get all 9 stat books prepped for a test production build of the 19.1 help. Attended meetings about improving the new feature documentation process. Planned for Discovery staffing from Stat R&D.
Stat Testing
- Mark: I switched the unit tests for fitting the Gaussian Process model in Bayesian Optimization from comparing individual response predictions to linear regression of sets of responses. I am using strict comparisons to identify problem cases for Kasia and Chris to investigate. These tests are failing consistently on two machines. Participated in practice sessions for Kasia who is preparing to present to the SAS Patent Committee today. Working with Ryan, Joseph, and Jacob on two potential enhancements for Easy DOE in JMP 20: custom random coefficients and the Report tab.
- Jacob: Testing OML Designs, writing unit tests for backing up and creating new designs. Opening tickets for issues found testing this in debug builds. Testing OC Curves for 19.1. Investigating potential performance issues.
- Haley: Verified bug fixes in 19.1 for SEM and Causal Treatment. Enjoyed coming to Cary for a couple days to meet with team members, participate in Stat Dev lunch and holiday potluck lunch!
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Happy Friday! The Support teams are continuing to focus on user support requests and end of year tasks. We will post the operational status for Winter Break on the Community and in auto-reply emails that are sent when cases are opened.
- Thanks to everyone who brought items and helped set up/clean up for the Winter Potluck this week. We always enjoy the delicious food and seeing everyone!
- 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):
Development Operations
- Shannon C: Q4 review preparation, Q4 meetings with team members, and regular 1:1s. Looked into failing Mac unit test configurations and investigated a few crashes. I enjoyed our JMP Winter Potluck on Wednesday followed by a Thursday holiday lunch with DevOps and Doc team members at Zest Sushi and Small Plates in the almost unrecognizable downtown Cary (for those of us who do not go there a lot). Thanks very much to Shannon L for organizing the lunch outing!
- Jim:
- With JMP 19.0.3 final image candidate builds and installers delivered to QA, I disabled all related processes on the mac OS and WinOS build machines and on unit test machines
- Prepped for the imminent Perforce branching for JMP 19.0.4, pending QA signoff of 19.0.3
- Returned my last two Windows 10 machines; waiting on replacements to be delivered
- Working on JMPTOOL-1888 (adding signed HDF5 DLLS as part of nightly builds for both X64 and ARM64)
- Closed out 2025 items in Workday
- Shannon L: Continued work with Product Management and Doc managers on new feature tracking improvements. Weekly technical meetings, plus Atlassian administration. Curated and announced a list of interesting Jira and Confluence updates from our last monthly rolling update from Atlassian. User support for Atlassian products plus submitted support issues to Atlassian. Wrapping up 19.0.3 security + emergency bug fix release, including final PLSR reviews. Continued JMP Marketplace Monetization project work, including meetings with many stakeholders. Facilitated a joint retrospective with the Doc and L10N teams.
- Melanie:
- Working through tasks for closing out 19.0.3 and starting 19.0.4.
- Finalizing goals in Workday and Plato and preparing for Q4 wrap-up. Also thinking about 2026 goals.
- Coordinating work getting older Xcode version for code analysis for JMP 19.x.n going forward. (Thanks to Michael Hecht and Nick Ruva!)
- Working on future JMP 20 EA calendar reminders (EA1 is sooner than you might think!)
- Myron: JMPTOOL-1905: updates for testbot 19.0.4. Working on curl problem on jmptool. Provisioning testbot environment on prod AWS (jmptoolprod).
Localization
- Sandy:
- Bug fix to new return job for Sample Data
- Began work on automation test plan for commit/return process for portable ui, builtins, and sample data
- Worked on bug fix for populate file validation
- Worked on code library consolidation(deletion of unused code)
- Documented new commit/return process
- Allison: Finalized ZH Portable UI translations and ran it through the newly implemented automation process and reported bugs; responded to translation queries related to BigBooks and Portable UI; translated ZH Sample data strings; processed 19.0.3 Release Notes to hand off to translation teams.
- Howard:
- Reviewed git repo for old Jenkins related script.
- Create Dashboard Jenkins API triggers for PortableUI
- Worked on JIRA Bot email notification issue
- Some bug fixes
- Sohail: Prepared presentation for testing best practices, resolved test path import issues, began development of term extraction using local model.
- Trish: Localization queries & coordination getting associated with getting the new Korean reviewer onboarded.
Documentation
- Qiana:
- Worked on ZIP request #10278: Ryffine_Oxygen migration education and support AND request #10296: Wiris_Equations software_ASAP
- Attended retrospective meeting with writers and L10N
- Attended meeting with PM, Doc, and Ops to discuss new feature info
- Worked on JMPDOC-2490, JMPDOC-2479, JMP-27197, JMP-27615, JMP-27170, JMPDOC-2477
- Worked on JMP Query 3242
- Interviewed a candidate for the TW intern position
- Accepted tracked changes in UG, JSR, KS, and MDCs in preparation for JMP 19.1 help test build next week; also ran Acronlinx and spell check on files
- Susan C:
- 19.0.3 RNs - reviewed, edited. Peer reviewed, handed off to localization & published on jmp.com.
- Participated in the 19.0 retrospective
- Provided peer feedback
- Got all JMP Live content updated for 19.1 & out for review - the new SPC guide & updates to admin/user/install help
- Planning for JMP Live for SPC HTML creation
- Participated in interviews for tech writer internship
- Had Q4 goals meeting with Qiana
- Jill: Incorporated comments on JMP-27469. Reviewed 12/8 UI string report. Started editing LS Normalization chapter. Edited 19.0.3 Release Notes. Starting production check on EG.
- Chris: 19.0 help retrospective. Small doc changes: JMP-27507, JMP-25747, JMP-27537, JMP-28284, JMP-27553. Reviewed Susan's JMPLive SPC plan. Prepping 19.1 help for a production build.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on some Jira issues, and testing out JMP 20 fixes for 19.1 integration. Worked on a Tahoe fix Michael pushed (present in today’s build) to fix some of the rounded dialogs, tables, and crowded buttons in platforms so that JMP 20 on the Mac looks more like it used to (JMP-28052). Continue to help new folks with different issues and do training. Need to continue adding a few more Filter View and sorting tests for 20. Working on testing the Dynamic Tables additions for Summary, Split, Transpose and Stack.
- Justin: Completed my part of 19.0.3 installer testing, reviewed and commented on documentation for 19.1 Matlab and SAS integration, tweaked the new Matlab automation suite for 19.1, and worked on validation and automation testing for Matlab Load() functionality.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh
- Completed 19.0.3 environment setup and install testing
- Implemented general auto-deployment changes to align with JMP Live deployment updates
- Answered general JMP Live questions from team members
- Verified a number of security fixes
- Confirmed that the latest version of Keycloak installs and runs successfully with JMP Live 19.1, 19.5, and 20.0
- Anna: Added Jiras for PS: Missing space beneath the Chart type and subgroup info text. Adding test program for Graph Builder on different Bar types and major grid when overlay role is on.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Melanie Drake for sharing this one! The mental burden of remembering passwords is so real. Hope you all have a great weekend!
