19.1: Final installer candidates 2/23/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA2 Freeze 3/19/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 20, 2026!
JMP 19.0.5 was released in MyJMP this week. Details of the fixes included in this monthly security update can be found on the Security Bulletins page in the JMP Trust Center. Thanks to everyone who worked on this release!
JMP 19.1 has now reached its Security Freeze milestone. A few late-breaking fixes are being considered for JMP Live prior to finalizing installers. Final installer candidates for desktop products are due to be created on 2/23/26. Release in MyJMP is planned for 3/17/26. The doc team has created release notes to detail bug fixes and minor new features and Shannon L will author a Security Bulletin to include details about security-related updates.
We are looking ahead to Code Freeze for EA2 on 3/19/26. Thanks to Melanie Drake for sending out the calendar reminder today! If you have a feature you’d like to highlight to customers for EA2, please make sure to update the feature page. If you haven’t created one yet, please do so using the Template for JMP 20 Feature Pages. The most critical information is within the Motivation and Summary section of the template. If this is your first time creating a feature page, see this How-to for more information or work with your product manager.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/Crash report (with crashes selected)!
Beta and Crash report for the week of February 20 2026 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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
Product Management and Product Marketing
Dan V and Mia: The PM team met in Cary for a productive week of in-person meetings. We worked to refine team goals and metrics and met with development teams on various JMP 20 topics, projects and plans. And, of course, out-of-towners on the team enjoyed the warmer weather, and we managed to have a little fun while we were at it. Thanks to everyone who participated in the meetings. Excited for JMP 20 and beyond.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Things are going well across Tech Support and Engagement. Case volume is trending back toward typical levels as the new semester gets underway.
- 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
- Jim:
- Reported JIRAs from the latest JMP 20 ASAN unit test run
- Migrating the Windows JMP 20 Debug unit test process from a physical PC to and AWS instance
- Updated the silent install of Python modules for JMP 20 on all WinOS unit test machines
- Assisted Audrey Shull with an AWS testing instance and repurposed a mac mini
- Performed bug verification for several fixed JIRAs
- Melanie: Working with new testing database to run queries and correlate daily unit test runs with testing dashboard results – thanks to Myron who helped me get connected; Met with Tom Pedersen and Chris Barrett to discuss the possibility of automating the JMP Clinical help builds; Worked with and updated several Jiras with ongoing work; Enjoying the Spring of Deception.
- Shannon L: Atlassian administration and user support. Security reviews for the 19.1.0 release, and end of cycle 19.0.5 release cleanup. New feature documentation pilot with Product Management and the doc teams. Oxygen migration and post-migration planning. Weekly technical meetings. JMP Marketplace Monetization project work.
- Shannon C: Reviewed many 19.0.X, 19.1.X and JMP 20 crashes to look for novel items worth investigating, entered new Jira items and connected cases to Jira issues missing crash signatures. Looked into a few internally reported crashes for Nicole. Weekly technical meetings and 1:1s.
- Bob: Release of 19.0.5 into MyJMP. Addition of JMP 20 Student EA 1 for Macintosh. Working on scripts for 20 EA to better align with 20 production scripts.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Took part in additional Oxygen training. Prepared agenda for a discussion about localization in Oxygen migration. Performed TM and project maintenance on finished localization projects. Preparing the l10n workflow for JMPLive 19.5 localization. Designing new automation features for localization. Assisting with debugging issues during the building of localized JMPLivePublic output.
- Trish: Spent considerable time this week working to onboard our reviewers and translation vendors into ZIP JMPLoc-7669 JMPLOC-7652 and getting memoq renewal in place JMPTOOL-1785. Met with Qiana and Shannon L to discuss triage of localization Jiras and Queries – will document in Confluence. We can review with other team members at our monthly doc/loc team meeting.
- Allison: Processed 19.1 Release Notes in our CAT tool and sent out the package for translation; handed off localized documentations to Web team to publish on jmp.com; created and validated localized add-ins; completed ActNow training courses; validated and processed vendor invoices.
- Myron:
- JMPTOOL-2059 – JiraBot not loading data / mapping table empty
- JMPTOOL-2044 – imagelist & changelist data on jmptoolprod
- JMPTOOL-2062 – update mac symbolize machine password
- started DBConvert database tool renewal
- Sandy: Attended Oxygen class. Worked on restructure of dashboard validation classes. Worked on adding new feature to Korean report we provide vendor.
Documentation
- Devon: Began full conversion of FrameMaker files to DITA, continued working with Stats team on integrating LaTeX equations into XML help, and wrote Confluence pages on how to install LaTeX plugins for oXygen.
- Susan C:
- Generating the JMP Live/Public localized help for 19.1. Trish's team handed off early (yay!). Krzysztof has kindly been assisting me with any issues related to Jenkins jobs.
- Reworking the remaining dates for JMP Live/Public 19.1 (they can all move in a bit with the early handoff).
- Working on the 19.5 JMP Live Configuration help.
- Met with Chris and Krzysztof to discuss font fixes & image scaling.
- Met with Qiana to continue work on doc policies (stemming from retrospective).
- Qiana: Attended the last day of Oxygen training. Worked on the procurement processes for Oxygen, Carmen Publishing, and LaTeX plugin. Performed project planning and coordination activities.
- Chris: Continued Oxygen training and testing. Adjusted JMPLive styles. Met with Thomas and Melanie about automating Clinical help and adjusting styles. Pushing 19.1 help to production and a draft of 19.2; demoting 19.0.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: Preparing for 19.1 validation next week. Jira issue maintenance. Created a few Confluence spaces for some of our sales teams. Our testing teams did a team building activity this week at the Triangle Curling Club in Durham (all sporting our new JMP hoodies!).
- Eric H:
- Started investigation of JMP20EA1 beta report (case # 00281655) where customer reports query speed is “unacceptably slower” than JMP17.
- Verified tables listed when connecting to a SQLite database now in JMP 20 and 19.2
- Installed OneDrive data connector add-in to test that when switching live connections, previous live connections are maintained. So that when user switches back, JMP does not need to reconnect which can cause various performance issues. Verified this new functionality for JMP 20 and 19.1 on both Windows and Mac.
- Started investigating unknown failures of JSL Unit Test DataTable/SQL/testODBCOpenonetable.jsl and testMacODBCOpenonetable.jsl and replicating a connection issue related to the installed ODBC drivers.
- Hunter: Installed, authorized, and ran a few tests with all 12 JMP 19.1 product/host combinations to look for any installation issues prior to the start of JMP 19.1 final installer testing next week. Attended the JMP host testing team building event at Triangle Curling on Tuesday. Updated the host testing Macs in the lab in preparation for the new password change. Also checked the status of an ongoing Tahoe issue with the newly released Tahoe 26.4 Dev. Beta 1. Completed the two Q1 2026 compliance training courses. Reviewed localized JMP 19 Basic Analysis documentation for Allison.
- Nick H: Working on trying to get changelist builds to post to the dashboard on the jmptoolprod machine. In addition to this I have been working on adding capabilities to our nightly unit test failure email process to handle sending out suffix run failure emails to a select list of testers. In doing this work I have also identified and fixed a current issue with suffix test run failure reporting in the dashboard that was causing incorrect summation of failures across test runs. I also met with Mandy this week to discuss a plan to potentially help her with some of her data table testing.
- Mandy: Testing new Data Table changes and the Dynamic tables (Summary) focus on a developer test build. Data table looks good today for the build for the DS_Europe Lab. Investigating a Mac crash with Dynamic tables but most of it looks good. Writing a new test for Summary/Transpose/Stack/Split. Ongoing - still working with Applying Tag Rules to data tables, importing different data, etc. Next week: need to check and see that new items are getting recorded by Workflow builder.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh:
- JMP Live 19.1 Installer Testing Preparation
- Updated the testing matrix
- Created the required Jira story with testing subtasks
- Created the required test machines in AWS, including DNS entries
- Additional Work
- Focused on security‑release–related Jira issues
- Resolved a minor issue with one of my Jira reports
- Seema:
- Accepted and Closed Jiras:
- HTML Contour Profiler crashes after JMPLive event
- Side Bar buttons for reports not working in JMP Live with latest JMP 20
- Empty modal displayed when viewing history report for Warnings when user does not have data permissions
- It shows "No history records found" for several seconds when loading a post's History page even though the history records exists if the post contains thoughts of markers.
- Contour Profiler Y Zone Controls do not work
- User can choose whether to copy warnings when duplicating a report
- Copy control chart warnings with copied reports
- Created Jiras
- User with Download only permissions to a folder has inconsistent access to Duplicate post
- Modal displayed with bad message when trying to Move a post with no data access into folder that already contains a post with the same name
- Untranslated string when user cannot duplicate a post into another space
- In Progress:
- Deadlock when trying to delete multiple packages
- Mateo: Continued updating our JMP Live UI automated tests, focusing on tests related to admins interacting with groups and the admin log. I also verified some bugs found by automation.
- Accepted and Closed:
- JSL causing error when publishing multiple reports that use an existing data table on JMP Live
- List items not properly displayed after admin search clear button is pressed
Core
- Dave B: Fixed a focus issue caused by add-ins with modal dialogs in their startup script. Multiple crash investigations. Fixed an add-in load order regression. Worked with Nick and Myron on a problem with posting jmprunner results to the testing dashboard.
- Dan S: Linked Item work - improved behavior in Projects, rerun in-place for undo/redo, working on improved dirty behavior. Added box<<SaveWindow() message for general access to Save/SaveAs from JSL.
- Xan: Correlation focus group with Sarah Sylvestre. Exploring pairwise comparison code to attach numbers to brackets.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Added a few new features and made some improvements to the acceptance sampling platform based on user feedback. We've only demoed it to one user group, but so far they love it!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul N:
- Decommissioning of jmpopst02.exnet.sas.com and jmposmrh8.unx.sas.com, the first is the production JMP hosted OpenStreetmap server, and the development machine for JMP 16 and earlier. It has critical security vulnerabilities that cannot be resolved without complete rebuild due to critical software that is past End Of Life. After monitoring the log files over a week and a half, the only tile requests were ones that I made or came from within SAS firewall. The rest, some 20000+ per day were bots probing for unsecured admin pages. Fortunately, our server is well locked down. The web server has been turned off, and the machine will be deactivated by SAS IT. I have backed up the database, the map data and server config files in case we ever choose to set up another OpenStreetmap server.
- Began the process of updating the EC2 Linux instance responsible for activations prior to JMP 18. AmazonLinux 2 is deprecated, the migration path is to use AmazonLinux 2023. The activation database is an Amazon RDS instance of MariaDB and does not need updating, only the Linux web server running activation scripts. I have a development EC2 instance up and will be able to remove the previous development and test EC2 instances once the new dev instance is validated. Then to create a new production EC2 instance, test and then have Daniel point the activation frontend to the updated production EC2 instance.
- Snyk just reported an update to zlib is needed for possible infinite loop. CVE-2026-27171 is ranked Low severity, so for now will be a JMP 20 fix. Have downloaded zlib and started building it. Changes to the build, it now creates a z.lib, z.dll, instead of zlib.lib, zlib.dll. I need to see how that affects our project solutions.
- Michael H: Enhancements to PI and AspenTech importers.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Continued long-term effort to fully refactor BarSegment and split out different bar styles into subclasses (JMPHTML-489); this week was mainly working through sticky spots in refactoring the forAll() method, which had the side effect of fixing one or two bugs in Interval bars. Hoping to have code ready to review by the end of next week. Also reviewed Comms’ edits of my draft blog post on word clouds in JMP 19; that blog post is now published.
- John Powell:
- Working on upgrading Three.js (lib used for web-based 3D drawing) from r148 to r182(JMPHTML-15152). Most of the technical issues are resolved, I’m working through the Third Party Software Approval Request (JMPHTML-15299).
- Met with JMP Clinical to discuss requirements/plans for JMP 20.
- Completed our refactoring sprints and held a retrospective meeting.
- Completed two Act Now training courses.
- Started investigating the performance of heatmaps with continuous color role (JMPHTML-14832).
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5 - Restricting access to control chart warnings not linked to any data. 20.0 - Planning an approach to supporting triage with rolling window of data (with other Process Screening triage devs), starting to compile a set of Process Screening triage examples. Other: Sprint retrospective and planning, dealing with an IT issue.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Wrote and published a blog post on phantom variables as used in longitudinal SEM. Answered a couple questions in the community re: categorical variables and the random intercept cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) in SEM. Fixed a crash reported by a community user. Added new functionality to the new Set Constraints model shortcut in SEM and the older CLPM shortcut too.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Investigated (with Devon) the possibility of using LaTeX markup for equations in the documentation going forward. Planned for the process of marking up the existing equations for use in Oxygen-based files after conversion. Preparing for Q1 conversations next week. Met with Product Management about plans for the 20.0 New Features document process.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: I've been testing new features in Process Screening: control limit column properties and histograms. Prepared for and attended a harmonization meeting about CCB, Process Screening, and Process Capability. Bug verification. Unit test cleanup.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Enhancing the Tabulate to DOCX add-in for the Marketplace. Working out how to use the functionality in that add-in to support generating sections of the Clinical Study Report in JMP Clinical. Assisted FDA's clinical analyst responsible for the hundreds of JMP Clinical installations in tweaks for better deployment, adoption, and usage of the product.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing this one! Hmm…this wolf kind of reminds me of Nazgul the wolfdog who recently participated in a cross-country ski race at the Olympics! Hope you all have a great weekend filled with the kind of joy that dog had crossing the finish line. As one account posted “14/10 – give that good dog a medal!”
