19.0.5: Security fixes only • 19.1: Security Freeze 2/19/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA2 Freeze 3/19/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 5, 2026!
JMP QA signed off on most flavors of EA1 on Wednesday. Customers who are in the EA program can now visit MyJMP to download the installers and visit the EA webpage to learn more about features that are ready to test. FYI that JMP Student Edition for the Mac is not yet available, and we will not have an EA1 Mac installer for JMP Clinical for EA1 – this first EA iteration for Clinical will be Windows-only. Our next EA freeze is on March 19, and we are looking forward to receiving feedback from internal and external customers prior to that update!
Yesterday was our Security Freeze milestone for the JMP 19.0.5 monthly security release. Final installer candidates for all products are planned to be created on Sunday night and will be reviewed by testing teams in preparation for an expected mid-February release. Work on our JMP 19.1 maintenance release is also wrapping up in preparation for a St. Patrick’s Day release.
Thanks very much to John Schroedl for coordinating the Visual Studio 2026 update (JMP-29611) in collaboration with developers in charge of all the various build machines running nightly builds, CI, and jmprunner processes. John also provided details for updating JMP developer machines in his email communications today. If you build JMP on Windows, please see John’s emails to JMPRD and JMPDEV earlier today for full details.
Unfortunately, John did hit a bug with the JMPRD mailing list that prevented some people from receiving emails about the compiler update this morning. As a reminder, JMPRD is an auto-generated SAS-maintained distribution list. It’s supposed to be based on the JMP development organization hierarchy, but periodically we’ve had issues crop up that have resulted in unintentional changes to this list. If we make manual updates to the names on this list, they do not persist since SAS regularly resets auto-generated lists to conform to existing rules. I have entered a ServiceNow ticket to have SAS review why several stat group developers no longer appear on JMPRD. I suspect it is most likely due to the list not taking into account recent management changes within the stat dev group. Hopefully the SAS group that assists with rule updates will resolve this issue soon.
On a side note, JMPDEV is another distribution list that includes development team members. I use JMPDEV weekly to send out dev updates and also use it for periodic dev meeting invites. Unlike JMPRD, JMPDEV is not auto-generated. In addition to development, it includes product management and other friends across many JMP groups (JMPTS, SEs, Sales, etc). Please be aware that when you add new hires in development or in any other groups that want to receive these items regularly, you should reach out to me or Beth Evans to update the JMPDEV list.
Thanks very much to Richard Zink for presenting on new JMP Clinical reports for JMP 20! Richard also shared the Survival Explorer add-in currently available on the JMP Marketplace here. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Richard has also volunteered to present on the JMP Clinical Exposure Summary report at an upcoming meeting. If you’d like to sign up to present at a future dev meeting, please add your name, title and description on the JMP Dev Meeting Volunteer schedule in Confluence. If there are not rows yet for the month when you’d like to present, please feel free to add them.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.1 Security Freeze – 2/19/26
- JMP 19.1 Final Image Candidate – 2/23/26
- JMP 19.1 Planned Release in MyJMP – 3/17/26
- JMP 20 EA2 Code Freeze – 3/19/26
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates and JMP 20 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Efforts to move to Visual Studio 2026. Thank you to Dave Barbour, Jim Borek, Nick Ruva, Bob Hickey and Daniel Powell for their help! Many icon updates from Bryan Fricke. Also updated some Windows-only areas like Print Preview and status bar icons. Discussion and code reviews related to linked DT items.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed Fit line confidence intervals missing with power scale (JMPHTML-15256).
- Fixed missing Correlation heatmap (JMPHTML-15257).
- Fixed Heatmap with no X or Y no longer matching JMP (JMPHTML-15259).
- Output log message when detecting unsupported Pie charts with Overlay (JMPHTML-15045).
- Made Pie charts with unsupported Order by Rows or Row Runs render static (JMPHTML-14979).
- Added support for customized color of the area surrounding non-Graph Builder graphs (JMPHTML-15018).
- Added support for customized Heatmap label colors(JMPHTML-2125).
- Worked on support for ‘Label by Row’ for heatmaps(JMPHTML-1268).
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5 bug fixing: Data access edge cases impacting control chart warning handling, user access lost while report regeneration in queue, non-unique user name error message.
Statistics
- John Sall: In Process Screening, add a Histogram chart option with finer grain axis (JMP-29567); handle partially excluded subgroups like CCB (JMP-5253).
- Elizabeth: Continued work on power analysis for mixed models. Currently working on a JSL script to demonstrate generating exemplary data for various common designs to use with the new Mixed power process. Will be having ongoing discussions with the DOE folks on how we can streamline both that initial part of the process and visualizing final results. Participated in stat development GRA interviews (great candidates!).
- Laura C-S: Continued work on the “MultiCorrelationFitter” class; both polychoric and polyserial correlations are now finished (along with their thresholds and asymptotic covariance matrix). I’m almost done adding the Pearson product moment correlation so the asymptotic covariance matrix across all estimates is available (this will be needed for weighted least squares estimation in SEM). Submitted a presentation proposal to the Modern Modeling Methods conference.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Debriefed the focus group with Mia and the Easy DOE team to determine the direction of further improvements to simulating responses in DOE platforms. I explored the new Linked Items data table feature with Jacob to anticipate issues for DOE platforms. I worked on examples for the modified study tool to be submitted to the JMP Marketplace with Jacob. I reinstated the blocking (days) in the unit test script for the GP model fitting in Bayes Opt.
- Jacob:
- Testing Linked Items from DOE tables and table scripts, with Mark Bailey
- Working on new tests for the Fraction of Design Space plot
- Updating the JMP Study Tool
- Investigating potential performance issues
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Working on JMP Clinical 20.0 Jiras - features and bugs. Working on JMP Validation add-in that combines executing the JMP installation and NIST tools and generates a PDF and DOCX with the results.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Brian F: Continued broad JMP icon modernization effort, updating a wide range of platform, modeling, and validation icons to better align with Microsoft Fluent System Icon style, including analysis platforms (e.g., Profiler, Multivariate, PCA, PLS, Discriminant), visualization platforms (e.g., Scatterplot Matrix, Parallel Plot, Surface Plot, Contour, Ternary), and modeling/ML features (e.g., Model Screening, K Nearest Neighbor, Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines), as well as supporting workflows such as Formula Depot and Make Validation.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Happy Friday! In addition to normal support activities, Tech Support has started off the year by participating in several focus groups led by PM and others. This week, we were excited to welcome Sanie Fragata to Tech Support. Sanie is a recent Computer Science graduate from VCU, and following onboarding, will be learning the support areas of JSL, REST, Python, and the various import methods.
- 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 cases related to Restricted Party Screening):
Development Operations
- Melanie:
- Getting ready to close out 19.0.5! [JMPTOOL-2032] End of Release Tasks for 19.0.5 - Jira
- Preparing for Oxygen training next week; collaborated with Documentation for one final 19.1 MIF-PDF run and stopping this daily process; will manually run the correct job for anything else that straggles (like Release Notes).
- Chased down a troublesome string that needs a special translation. (Thanks to Yeng Saanchi, Michael Crotty, and Yusuke Ono for input).
- Tracking Notepad++ updates to VMs: [JMPTOOL-2027] Ensure Notepad++ is updated to 8.9.1 - Jira
- Updated Visual Studio on my laptop. And Perforce because I was running an embarrassingly old release. Thanks to John Schroedl for walking us all through the update and Nick Ruva, Jim Borek, and Dave Barbour for working together to ensure that CI builds, nightly Unit Tests, and JMPRunner are all updated correctly.
- Finally, kudos to North Carolina weather for deciding not to snow/ice on us this weekend (at least last I checked).
- Bob:
- Published installers for Version 20 Early Adopter 1
- Supported the Windows move to Visual Studio 2026, with installer changes to use new files.
- Reviewed and provided feedback to Nick on jmpsrv01 retention / cleanup job updates
- Continued work on batch‑based automation for nightly installer completion
- Myron:
- JMPTOOL-1477 – updated database users, windows firewall, etc. for dashboard UI
- JMPTOOL-2027 – updated Notepad++ on several servers
- JMPTOOL-2024 – create new book names in JiraBot
- worked on a few random~ish crash system issues
- Jim: Updated the mac OS installer to use dashes in the naming, instead of double underscores; modified unit test machines for both mac OS and WinOS to use this new convention.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Finished implementation of the new pseudo localization process for i18n testing. Helping to process Clinical and Marketplace descriptions translations and English reviews. Studying for the Oxygen training next week and looking into Oxygen Author tool. Scoping the work for Marketing group video caption localization process.
- Allison: Processed Marketplace strings for localization; responded to queries related to taking localized screenshots for JMP Live Public; read training materials to prepare for next week's Oxygen training; validated and processed vendor invoices.
- Sandy: Worked on restructure of dashboard validation classes.
Documentation
- Qiana: Met with Ryffine to test technology and provide a brief overview of P4V for upcoming Oxygen training. Closed and deferred Jiras. Met with Clinical Doc and Tester Team to provide an overview of the Doc Team’s testing, reviewing, and editing processes. Completed Oxygen pre-training reading. Performed project planning and coordination activities.
- Susan C:
- Finished incorporating review feedback on Release Notes for JMP 19.1. Thanks to all who reviewed! Incorporated Jill's edits.
- Working on JMP Live 19.5 features.
- Jira planning for 20 & 19.5.
- Devon: Reviewing Ryffine’s training materials, prepared info on tentative metadata to be used in XML help, working on publishing XML files that are chunked at different levels.
- Jill: 2/2 UI string review, reviewing EG Jiras on the writer’s report, Marketplace add-in edits, and editing the 19.1 Release Notes.
- Chris: Updated the peer-review instructions for help and PDF. Uploaded the 20.0 helpmap. DITA training prep.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Discussed Tag rules for JMP 20 with developer - collaborating on the design of the new feature. Installer testing for the JMP20EA1; received my first EA1 feedback today from Jarmo (not Holger). Working on Data table changes for JMP 20 - flushing out little issues as developers continue to add slight changes for reports, closing and saving. Will continue work on the new table changes, for 20, Dynamic Tables, as well as Tags - trying to add some rules to share and show off.
- Eric H: Continuing to close out 19.1 (and 20.0) Jira’s. Closed out 2025 Individual Goals in Workday. Installed and configured Oracle ODBC driver for Mac. Installed Perforce on Mac and configured my workspace to access the JSL Unit Test Framework GUI for executing JSL tests on Mac. Verified the HDF5 2.0.0 update on Windows and Mac. Requested access to Snowflake database and worked to create my new Snowflake Data Connector. Attended a Workflow Builder overview with Mandy.
- Nick H: Worked with Myron to stand up the new Testing Dashboard changes on jmptoolprod in AWS. This involved creating branches of the dashboard code for the old legacy jmptool server and the jmptooldev AWS server. The new production server will track the master branch and we can test any changes with the dev branch on jmptooldev. You should now see the prod version of the Testing Dashboard here. Once we are confident with the new prod config, I will update the nightly emails to point to the prod server. In addition, I am continuing work to clean up unit tests, working on 20.0 feature/bug verifications, and fixed a small bug with the JSL Unit Test GUI.
- Audrey: Working with Krzysztof on testing some pseudo-translation files that the testing teams will use for I18N testing (many thanks!). Verifying libcurl security fix in 19.0.5 and preparing for the final validation of 19.0.5 next week. Mimic planning with Mike Muhlada.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 20 Early Adopter 1 testing on Mac and Windows. Responded to my first JMP 20 EA 1 case. Reviewed the localized Discovering JMP documents. JIRA investigations and verifications.
- Melisa:
- Completed the first round of I18N testing on 19.1
- Added new unit and imagediff tests for Tabulate issues fixed in 20
- Participated in EA1 testing by installing and testing JMP Student Edition on Windows
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh:
- Completed JMP Live Jira verification work, including admin cleanup jobs, security fix verification, and several miscellaneous issues.
- Built verification environments for the JMP Live portion of the 19.0.5 security release.
- Replaced the JMP Live 20 distributed environment with new servers due to an installer issue. The transition was quick since the database is hosted on a separate machine.
- Taylor:
- Accepted and Closed:
- The strike-through formatting does not display correctly in History Log and Audit Log.
- Ghost cards in “Recently Updated”
- Error message "... too long to publish to {{product}}..."
- Event queue count should pubsub when packages are deleted
- As a JMP Live User, I can use "Open in JMP" with a Personal Access Token connection
- Automatically duplicate used_data when duplicating a post to another space
- Data post created due to inter-space move has no audit log entries
- Light mode filter chip icons are being washed out
- Line Separator character not recognized in extractAddInDetails
- "X items selected" even when nothing appears selected in the UI
- In Progress:
- Consider using dotenv-eval to stop use of clear text password in .env
- Use WinSW directly instead of node-windows
- Seema: Working on Jiras as usual:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Test references PostgreSQL 9.6 directory
- Triage summary incorrectly calculated based on data access in some scenarios
- Do not populate triage_summary for Process Screening reports
- Error when publishing a dashboard that uses reports for Control Chart Builder and Process Screening where both have Warnings
- Data import script fails when uploading table of same name as original
- Isolate HistoryLogQuery from others to prevent page hang
- Created Jiras
- User without permissions to data can see information about data in History when Warnings are updated
- In Progress:
- Spurious new markers created, notifications.supporting_data.allMarkers incorrect, in some data access scenario
- Anna:
- Verifying desktop fixes for Graph Builder and confirming that HTML5 output not affected.
- Tested log axis issue that John P reported and Xan addressed. John has now fixed HTML side of the problem.
- Testing table scope transform fix Xan and Ernest uncovered on desktop. No impact on HTML5 or JMP Live reports.
- Updating JMP Pro 19 New Features Implemented in JMP Live .
- Hui:
- Published Pseudolocalization test plan for JMP Live on confluence (thanks to Michael Goff for the quick feedback).
- Continued exploratory testing on JMP Live i18n environment and filed 9 Jira items across WebJMP and JMP Testing.
- Verified 11 Jira items covering JMP desktop, JMP HTML, and WebJMP.
- Mateo: Updated our JMP Live UI automated tests (specifically for the login page, logout page, home page, and navigation bar) to the expected results in JMP Live 19.x and 20.0.
Core
- Dave B:
- Crash investigation (JmpClinical memory overwrite crash, tabledisplay divide by 0 crash)
- Fixed a regression that broke add-in editing
- Investigated an add-in related bug that caused the first click in a modal dialog to be ignored
- Dan S: Added preference to suppress prompt when closing unsaved linked report. Fix for Save-As/Export from a linked report. Additional work on dirty-document and save prompts. 19.2 fix for outline title in a Fit Group with By.
- Xan: Pausing GB correlation work and starting GB significance brackets for ANOVA views.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Working on improvements to the acceptance sampling platform and some sample size explorer bugs. Excited to start watching the Winter Olympics, which officially start today!
Note from Shannon
Thanks very much to Mike Stickles for sharing this funny meme! I hope you all have a great weekend. It may not be that warm outside this weekend, but I’m looking forward to next week!
