19.0.4: Release planned 1/20/26 • 19.0.5: Security fixes only • 19.1: Security Freeze 2/19/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA1: 1/22/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for January 16, 2025!
We have completed JMP 19.0.4 signoffs and installers are planned to be released in MyJMP for all products on next Tuesday, 1/20. Special thanks to all who worked on setup, development, security reviews and testing for this monthly dot-dot security release! Work concluded with an efficient round of installer testing conducted by Audrey Shull and Hunter Weaver and the completion of many end-of-release tasks by DevOps team members. I know we are all happy to see this release finalized so that customers can get access to the important security fixes it contains.
Meanwhile, the DevOps team has been working on setting up build, install and test infrastructure for JMP desktop products for the new 19.0.5 and 19.2 branches. As Jim Borek noted in his earlier email to development announcing the new branches, the 19.2 branch is now open for bug fixes. Please continue to have 19.2 candidate fixes fixed and tested in JMP 20 wherever possible and be sure to have your fix reviewed before integrating it into the 19.2 branch.
As a reminder, the JMP 19.0.5 branch is open for security updates only. If you are a security champion, you should have access to push third party library updates and other security fixes to the branch. However, if you notice any Perforce access issues, please contact Jim to get them straightened out.
Next up will be our JMP 20 EA1 freeze on Thursday, 1/22. I appreciate all the continued updates being made by development and product management team members on Feature pages in the JMP 20 Features section in Confluence! If you need a refresher on how to create a feature page for an item you plan to highlight in EA1 (or a later EA), please visit Mia’s How-To page here. For a full list of planned dates for the JMP 20 EA program, please visit the JMP 20 dates page here. You should have a reminder on your calendar for 1/22/26 with more details including deadlines for feature pages and videos.
It was great to see so many members of the customer care organization in town this week for their division kickoff, held over in the Education Center. Of course, I always enjoy seeing local members of customer care division teams when I’m in the office, but it’s a rarer treat to see our remote team members from across the US, Europe and Asia in person. Thanks to all who were able to make the trip! Wendy’s update below shares a few more details about their productive week of meetings.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the January 13, 2026 product changes for Atlassian products! More details are below.
On January 13, 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:
- Narrow your Confluence search with more filters
- Filter by more types in Jira search
- Save filters for your project work items
- And more!
Please 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 Security Freeze – 2/19/26
- JMP 19.1 Final Image Candidate – 2/23/26
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Xan: Adding new correlation stats and views to the GB Ellipse element. You can read more in Confluence here.
- Dave B: Marker seg preference work (color and outline mode). Fixed a bug with distribution and bins changing when panning. Started work on supporting add-ins with encrypted jsl files.
- Dan S: Continued work on Linked Items in the Data Table. Fix for outline titles in a Fit Model by-group when effects are added or removed.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Continued looking into RBD/RSS improvements.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Continuing work on JMPHTML-489
- (Refactor Interval bars to subclass), which is living up to the expectation of being a multi-week effort due to the complexity of BarSegment.
- John Powell:
- One day of whitebox testing and reported bugs found.
- Replaced use of String.fromCharCode() with newer String.fromCodePoint() for special characters(JMPHTML-543)
- Working on extending our unit test framework to support 3D SceneBox (for Scatterplot3D)
- Praveena: Worked with Paul Spychala on updating JMPHTML5 build, updated the Mac Perl build script Create new XCode build Perl Script for JMPHTML on Mac . Working on Refactor Interactive HTML limitations message logging . Working with Annie Dudley to prep for CCW workshop and JMP User Group talk.
- Paul Spychala: Working with other developers to create the new HTML build project/script on Windows (JMPHTML-15225) and Mac (JMPHTML-15226).
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5: Bug fixes. 20.0: Notify about Process Screening warnings only when they are brand-new. Other: Dev environment setup on my Mac.
Statistics
- John Sall: In Process Screening, honor control limits from limits table (rather than just inferring sigma from them) (JMP-29022); offer Conway-Maxwell Poisson and Generalized Poisson distributions (via Clay's new fitters) (JMP-29312); add menu item "Capability Details for Selected" (calling Laura's routine) (JMP-28883).
- Laura C-S: Finally fixed the remaining bug in the multiple-polychoric correlation fitter! Now I have to find a place where the code will live and will start working on polyserial correlations. Writing JSL for a customer who needs to do simulation for power analysis in SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed 19.1 final help build. Planned for downtime while documentation source files are converted from FrameMaker to Oxygen.
Stat Testing
- Mark: I participated in a focus group that was organized and moderated by Mia Stephens to collect ideas about how to enhance the Report tab in Easy DOE. I studied the JMP Notebook feature in JMP 19.1 and brainstormed how it might be used by JMP Development with Jacob. I attended a meeting with SAS Legal and external patent attorney about application for Bayesian Optimization inventions. I worked with Jacob on a publishable version of the usability study tool for the JMP Marketplace.
- Tonya: Testing process screening new features. Comparing process screening to control chart builder and process capability. Updating unit tests.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Preparing content for Discovery recording/presentation with Rebecca for the end of the month. R&D work for JMP Clinical 20 features. Assisting team members with JSL optimizations.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F:
- Participated in conversations about referring to data table generated reports and derived tables as Linked Items. Mentioned this to Michael Goff and plan to discuss further with Dieter, as JMP Live refers to such items as Dependents.
- Provided JMP Tool icons in 16×16 and 32×32 resolutions and DPI's relevant to Mac and Windows. John Schroedl delivered the icons for Windows. Working on other icons that appear on the default toolbars for reports.
- Developed a template for reviewing software features using Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics as a checklist. Provided good and bad examples of each heuristic. Met with JMP Live team about conducting heuristic evaluations.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Happy Friday! User Enablement had a fantastic kickoff this week, with nearly everyone traveling to Cary to reconnect and align our 2026 goals around the user journey. The Support teams found the sessions valuable, and having the event in person made an even greater impact.
- As we are just beginning to catch up on our cases, I’ve included only the case volume data for the Support teams this week. And here are the usual 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:
Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
Development Operations
- Bob:
- 19.0.4 final installers built; 19.0.4 windows installer validation files created, tested, and with help from Roger – uploaded externally.
- Created set of 19.2.0 windows installers scripts and working on 19.0.5 set of windows installer scripts that should be finished tonight.
- arm64 windows installer fixes to make sure the correct VC Redist and WebView files are installed, based on the OS type of the installer build and determined by the OS of the hardware.
- More testing of version 20 EA
- Melanie: Branching: Created Branching Jiras for 19.0.5 and 19.2; created End of Release Jiras for 19.0.4 and 19.1. Unit Tests: Improved the Status graphs published to JMP Live; Added some waits to clean up regeneration problems in publishing to JMP Live; Working on a way to add stream information to the Macintosh Status graph; Investigated a problem we’re having with the JMP 20 unit tests on Windows Server 2025. General DevOps: Some recovery after the network outages.
- Shannon L: Wrapped up 19.0.4 security release. Atlassian user assistance tasks. Continued work with Product Management on new feature tracking improvements. Weekly technical meetings. Preparing to enable JMP 20 EA sprint assignment automation.
- Shannon C:
- Jim: Branching tasks.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Helping with improving help build and setup scripts (for JMPLivePublic). Fixed one SampleData table for 19.1. Prepared terminology review project for Brazilian Portuguese and writing documentation for the reviewer. Testing improvements to the JMP UI processing scripts.
- Trish: Localization is frozen for 19.1. Review over Brazilian Portuguese glossary created by Krzysztof. Glossary created as part of research project to determine if JMP will add support for Brazilian Portuguese translations. Researching how screenshots that currently require access to internal servers will be taken since this work is now outsourced.
- Sandy: Worked on bug fix for populate file validation and image diff file validation. Worked on enhancement to Sample Data return processing
- Sohail: Rebuilt environment for term extraction on GPU enabled instance, debugged model output quality errors, iterated on refining extraction prompts for local models.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished up JMP Live handoff to L10N. Building and testing help for JMP Live and HTML5. Finished AI course. Meeting with Qiana to discuss doc policies.
- Jill: Reviewed final 19.1 UI strings, production checked EG and UG, and reviewed EG Jiras.
- Devon: Working on DITA source files for our training team to review and for publishing test web help, reviewing published web help for 19.1.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Melisa:
- Tested quite a few fixes Andrew put in for crashes and other issues that I found in Tabulate. Found additional issues with Tabulate that were either fixed as part of his new build or reported separately.
- Got JMP Runner, P4 etc set on my Mac (and started trying to test more there). Learned how to use Hack mode to verify an I18N fix. Added my first JSL unit test! Shout out to Mandy Chambers for all her help - especially on the Mac!
- Eric:
- Continuing to close out 19.1 Jiras.
- Discovered that LearnBot add-in crashed JMP 19 on Windows, but not Mac.
- Testing data connector telemetry on 19.1 and 20.0.
- Continued testing Query Builder.
- Installed ODBC driver for SQLite for use in Data Connectors.
- Attended the JMP 19 Enhancements to JMP Live webinar.
- Nick H: Worked on fixing a bug in the Testing Dashboard that was causing the x-axis in test run history graphs to not properly line up with the filtered date on the dashboard page. I also fixed an issue in the unit test framework that was causing a warning pop-up message when running baseline tests and have been working on verifications for some fixed notebook bugs.
- Hunter: Much of the week was spent on JMP 19.0.4 final installer testing with authorization cases for different JMP products on Mac and Windows. Investigated a crash with JSL Debugger. Many system updates were applied on various host testing devices this week. JIRA verifications.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh:
- Welcome Back MATEO! Mateo Collado has started full-time with the Web Test Team post-graduation (NCSU)!
- JMP Live 19.0.4 Installer Testing & Sign‑Off: Completed validation steps and final checks for the 19.0.4 installer. Coordinating final sign‑off activities.
- Jira Verifications: Reviewing backend issues related to old data queries and identifying orphaned data via GraphQL.
- GraphQL Work: Actively working through schema and query patterns—still getting comfortable with GraphQL for internal data validation.
- Customer Installation Call: Participated in a customer-facing installation call to support deployment.
- Anna:
- Reported work item for LDF issue with selecting Inverse while variable name selected.
- Verified fixes for Data Viewer and Local Data Filter.
- Entered new feature for HTML5 work item for Xan's new pseudo-log transform for axis and legend color gradients.
- Watched Russ's JMP Assistant presentation.
- Seema:
- Worked on getting a local dev environment set up so I can switch between versions as needed.
- Was able to run some GraphQL tests very easily using the local dev env
- Verifying JMP Live Jiras which span different features- I'm learning a lot about different areas all at once
- Verifying HTML5 Jiras for Contour Profiler
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.0.4 – All Clean (daily runs now retired), 19.1 – All Clean, 19.5 - All Clean, 20.0 – All Clean, 19.0.5 – automation pipeline created and ready to go as soon as the JMP Live branch is created. I completed JMP Live 19.0.4 installer testing for Japanese. Received new Mac, configuration complete and is test ready. Completed and pushed 20.0 automation updates resulting in a complete and CLEAN run on Friday.
Note from Shannon
We will have a day off on Monday as we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King is best known for organizing and leading marches and advocating nonviolent resistance during the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. At the March on Washington in 1963, he gave his historic and well known “I Have a Dream” speech. King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his leadership in the fight for racial equality and his commitment to nonviolence. The movement’s significant legislative wins included the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later followed by the Voting Rights Act (1965) and the Fair Housing Act (1968). Although King was assassinated in 1968 at age 39, we continue today to remember and honor his leadership and the achievements of the movement he led.
So I thought it was particularly fitting today when Trish O’Grady shared with me the following pictures taken by her daughter Chelsea who took her children to see the Buddhist monks (along with their dog!) who are walking for peace as they reached the Charlotte area today - Walk for Peace – Live Map – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas. Her grandson Bennett’s note says, “Thank you for giving us hope.” You can read more about the monks’ 2300 mile journey from Texas to Washington DC to promote peace in this WRAL news article or in this article from WBTV in Charlotte. Their walk will conclude with asking the US Congress to recognize Buddha’s day of birth and enlightenment as a federal holiday. The monks are scheduled to walk through Pittsboro and will arrive in Raleigh on Jan. 24.
Hope you all have a great long weekend and stay warm!
