19.1: QA signoff expected 3/12/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA2 Freeze 3/19/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 27, 2026!
Thanks very much to Nicole Jones for sharing this work anniversary announcement, and big congrats to Paris!
Congratulations to stat tester Paris Faison on his 20th work anniversary with SAS/JMP! Paris started at SAS 20 years ago on February 28th as a technical graduate student. He later joined full-time as a Systems Engineer and then moved to the SAS EVAAS (Education Value-Added Assessment System) team as an Analytical Consultant. We were delighted when he joined JMP in 2016 as a Research Statistician Tester.
Thank you, Paris, for the valuable contributions you have made to SAS over the past two decades - including the last 10 years with JMP. Your experience as a Systems Engineer and Analytical Consultant has been invaluable in your role at JMP, where testing often requires stepping into the customers’ shoes and anticipating how they will use our software in real-world applications.
Over the past 10 years with JMP, Paris has played a key role in testing numerous JMP platforms, including Text Explorer, Multivariate Embedding, Support Vector Machines, Clustering Analyses and most recently, various aspects of the Profilers.
Paris, thank you for sharing your expertise and talents with us. We are excited to celebrate this remarkable milestone with you.
It’s hard to believe that the end of February has already arrived and March is nearly here! It’s going to be a busy month. First up will be JMP Discovery Summit in Sorrento, Italy. In addition to keynotes, user talks, round tables and roadmap sessions, the JMP Lab will feature JMP 20 exercises. We’re looking forward to good feedback on several new features!
Testing of JMP 19.1 installers continued this week. We expect QA signoff by March 12 and other signoffs will be finalized soon after that. We plan to release 19.1 on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17 – just after our next Global Rest and Recharge Day on March 16.
JMP 20 EA2 is planned to freeze on March 19. Please help PM gather info on new features that are ready for EA testing! Please follow the instructions on this How-To page if you are new to creating these pages or need a refresh on how to set one up using the template here. The deadline for creating or updating feature pages is 9 am on Monday, 03/23/2026, and you should have EA videos to Mia by COB Tuesday, 03/24/2026. Please see EA Video Guidelines or reach out to Mia Stephens with any questions. Also, Product Management will be revisiting the reporting and dashboards for the Early Adopter program. Please contact Sarah Sylvestre if you have any data or reports you’d like to see going forward.
As JMP Documentation manager Qiana Eaglin noted in an email to development recently, her team is currently migrating JMP content from FrameMaker to Oxygen (DITA XML). They expect to complete the migration by April 16. During this transition period, writers will not be able to update or revise existing JMP documentation. Until all files have been fully migrated, our work will be limited to documenting new features using other tools. If you’re interested in following the team’s progress, all migration‑related work is being tracked under this JMPDOC project epic.
Please direct any questions about the migration process to Qiana. We appreciate your understanding and patience during this important tooling transition!
If you are a member of the development team that needs to make a purchase for software or a conference sponsorship, please refer to this page in Confluence for details about the process for working with JMP Procurement (kindly drafted by Trish O’Grady). On the page, you’ll find instructions for kicking off the process by emailing Valentina Perez in the JMP Procurement group and some details about information she will need when helping with your request. Onboarding new vendors and working through the process can take several weeks to months, so please start the process as early as you can. You can work to on-board a vendor before a purchase process is started, so plan ahead in advance of a renewal or new purchase.
Also, thanks very much to Richard Zink for presenting at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! Richard presented on the new Exposure Summary platform available in JMP Clinical 19.1 and 20.0. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Later in the day was the first meeting of the JMP Employee JMP User Group (JEJUG) which featured a Getting Started with JMP presentation by Donny Kopp and Jordan Hiller, a workflow demo by JMP Comptroller Lauren Aldrich (apparently also being heavily recruited by JMP sales :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:) and a JMP Assistant presentation by Russ Wolfinger. You can find that recording here.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the Beta/crash cases for the last week with crashes selected!
Beta and crash report for the week of February 27 2026 | JMP Live
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
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Worked on three new longitudinal Model Shortcut menu options in SEM (see below). These are particularly useful when analysts want to account for time-specific effects in growth curves. I also collaborated with a P&G user to submit a proposal for Discovery.
- John Sall: In Process Screening
- created an ID role to identify points so it is resilient to deletion as requested for Live Triage (JMP-29766)
- added a path clause to "Use Limits Table" to allow it it to open the limits or parts table (JMP-29819)
- fixed a multithreading issue that was causing random crashes (JMP-29818)
- changed the default upper quantile probability for upper action limits from 0.9985 to 0.99865 to better match the quantile for 3-sigma normal limits after getting the approval from a strategic customer(JMP-29851)
- support the Percentile/ISO/Geometric capability index for non-normal processes in addition to the Z-Score method (JMP-29547).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Attended follow-up training sessions for Oxygen conversion and worked with Devon to get started on a method to convert our equations from FrameMaker to Oxygen. Met with the team for Q1 conversations and goal-setting for 2026. Various planning tasks for the stat doc team’s work for the documentation conversion period.
Stat Testing
- Mark: I shoveled 22" of snow when this week's blizzard was over. I completed a script to translate a choice design in a data table into JSL snippets that can be entered into the usability study tool. I began to edit our usability study tool documentation in Confluence to create a version to be submitted with the tool to the JMP Marketplace. I attended the Additive Manufacturing team meeting to plan phase two of experimentation and testing. I collaborated with SE Charlie Whitman to assist with a customer request for help with a script I wrote 22 years ago to perform the Grubb's outlier test.
- Tonya: Testing the process, screening a new feature of the path argument for use limits. Working with Process Capability to find freezes and crashes related to preferences. Updating unit tests due to changes with distributional chart quantile values. Completed the recent Act-Now training we were assigned.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Working out automatic JMP Clinical Unit Tests - first pass is to use the in-house server we manage in JMP LifeSciences, but also working with Jim for an eventual plan to get into an AWS pipeline. Finishing up the Validation Suite add-in for eventual Marketplace addition.
- Richard: Debugged features. Presentation to JMP Dev. Took my medication.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy and Gary:
- The Support teams are doing well. Our recent focus has been on refining the new case layout in Service Cloud. We are very pleased with the results!
- Unfortunately, the full data was not updated in time for our update email for you, so below are the usual graphs for topics for both Tech Support and Engagement. Once the update is complete, the TS JMP Live reports will also be updated. Also, here are the tickets reported by Support for the last 14 days.
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week (excluding cases related to Restricted Party Screening):
Development Operations
- Shannon L: JMP Marketplace Monetization program work, including several discussions on JMP Extension encryption. Met with JMPHTML dev and testing teams to introduce Jira issue-level security. More exploratory work with Snyk integration with Jira. Met with Sarah S and Kristen and the SAS open source office for an overview of their guidelines and best practices. Continued work on research project with Product Management on the feasibility of adding translations to Portuguese. Weekly technical meetings. Oxygen program work plus assistance in procurement. Atlassian administration and user support.
- Melanie: Worked up notes and a beginning project page for automating Clinical Help builds; Attended the first JEJUG – the organizers and presenters were amazing! Worked with Shannon Leslie on adding a field to the Salesforce Team Jira project; Various Jira updates and troubleshooting, plus a little testing on the side.
Localization
- Trish: Purchase order to renew memoQ approved. Work continues to onboard translation vendors and reviewers into ZIP. Completing training courses and planning for team goal setting. Met with the team researching the feasibility of adding support for Brazilian Portuguese in V20. The localization team is pulling together cost estimates.
- Allison: Worked on taking localized screenshots for the localized add-ins, handed off the localized add-ins to Marketplace and QA for testing; pre-processed new Marketplace strings to prepare for localization handoff; made updates to open POs to comply with new SAS PTP requirements; processed localized 19.1 Release Notes files and sent package to vendor for DTP work.
- Howard:
- Worked on the API for the new Korean Word count approach
- Refactoring Dashboard API and project classes
- Modified Dashboard project cycle Documentation to include JMP_UI and re-push features
- Krzysztof: Working on MT + LLM translation of subtitles for the Education department videos. Test converting and aligning TMs from localized fm files to Oxygen. Testing new automation features. Documented localization process for Brazilian Portuguese.
- Sohail: Tested different models on the remote server, set up the chat interface, and resolved dependencies, cleaned up the edu captions file using the LLM interface.
- Sandy: Worked on the restructure of dashboard validation classes. Worked on adding a new feature to the Korean report we provide to the vendor.
Documentation
- Chris: Finished pushing/demoting 19.1/19.0 help. Met with the Web team about the future home for help. Helped Susan with JMPLive CSS. Tested Oxygen features. Took a swing at restyling the Clinical help.
- Devon: Additional oXygen training with Ryffine, working on web help styling and bug fixes, working on solutions for different file chunking sizes for Stats and Doc team needs.
- Susan C: Generating JMP Live/Public localized help. I'm finished and ready to hand off for peer review next week and then testing.
- Jill: 2/23 UI string review, reviewing EG Jiras, and standardizing the Doc team's peer review pages.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Completed my installer testing assignment for JMP 19.1. Chased down a JMP 20 crash, without JMPRUNNER on Mac, and created a build with Xcode after the developer pushed a fix to make sure things were back to normal. Started documenting (for testers) how to set up Xcode to build JMP. Worked on the new Dynamic tables Summary feature. Worked with Evan and reported a crash we hit. Sat in on JMP Employee user group - good stuff! And participated in another SE/Developer focus group to discuss the new features in 20.
- Melisa:
- Completed installer testing for 19.1 and typed up detailed instructions to help me the next time we do this
- Verified Tabulate fixes at 20.0 (JMP-29775: Tabulate doesn't respond "Live update format" for uniform format, JMP-29776: Tabulate doesn't show percent uniform format after fixed, JMP-29782: Tabulate doesn't properly redo uniform format changes, JMP-29650: Tabulate crash occurs when undo page column changes)
- Reported a few new issues (JMP-29807: Tabulate undo stops working after anything selected in Column Switcher, JMP-29792: "Grouped column" syncing issues when creating a subset table, JMP-29791: Issues with "Label" and "Label column name" when there is an excluded Label column in the data
- Started working on a mystery crash reported by a customer, but I haven't had success reproducing it yet (JMPTEST-2257: Mystery crash in 19.05 with IfDisplay::isTrue and IfDisplay::annotationShow at the top of the stack).
- Attended the 1st JMP Employee Users Group Meeting
- Eric H:
- Final Installer validation for JMP 19.1: Windows 11, JMP, Spanish, Chrome, Dark Mode ON, Telemetry OFF, Office365
- Contributed testing documentation in the Final Installer Validation Confluence page:
- Clarified location of testRInterface_OSI.jsl
- Added testing steps for JMP Live and HTML5 Help verification.
- Hunter: Most of the week was working on JMP 19.1 installer testing and adding notes to the related JIRA items. Investigated EA 1 cases. Reported a change in behavior with a new verification code prompt during JMP SSO authorization that was introduced by a security change for Salesforce accounts. Finished updating passwords for the various testing accounts on the host testing Macs in the lab.
- Audrey: 19.1 Installer Testing. Thinking about how to make our release schedule work better for JMP’s security policy. Confluence admin tasks. Working with JMP Legal regarding a future JMP Terms and Conditions page.
- Justin K: Worked on installer testing for the 19.1 release. Also, working on updating the CAS automation suite to modern standards.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh: JMP Live 19.1 – Installer Testing & Regression Status
- We got a late start this week due to several late-breaking security vulnerabilities that required attention before testing could proceed. Despite this, the team has made solid progress and is currently 63% complete with installer testing and regression.
- We expect to reach 100% test completion by next week, assuming no additional blocking issues are introduced.
- I also streamlined the 17.2 and 18.2.3 migration paths as part of this cycle. We’ll be closely monitoring results to see whether these changes improve overall migration test stability and outcomes.
- Seema: Spent some time on JMP Live 19.1 Installer testing this this week in addition to the normal Jira work:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Improve the notification email for dashboards where reports use different attributes
- Warnings not associated with any data post should not be viewed, triaged, or downloaded
- In Progress:
- Warnings panel: warning row not in focus when selecting Triage within Control Chart Reports with By group
- Hui:
- Verified John Sall’s update related to JSON file (JMP-28569) for JMP Live 20 process screening on qc_byLevel, qc_group, and qc_time, and added a corresponding JSL unit test.
- Opened five Jira issues across on HTML5(JMPHTML-15318, JMPHTML-15310), WebJMP (WEBJMP-11904, WEBJMP-11906), and JMP desktop(JMP-29789). Reported HTML5 interactive issues related to Magnifier and Zooming.
- Continued I18N testing for JMP Live 19.1 and began installer testing for the same release.
- Anna: Writing tests for FIXED issues for SP3D, CCB, GB. Reported issues for:
- CCB: Process Capability Histogram image shifted outside of frame and clipped
- GB: Why don't reports w/unsupported features print an explanatory message to the LOG when publishing?
- SP3D: Run script w/SendToByGroup and all subsequent SP3D runs flagged w/same error
- SP3D: Lights border drawn but not enabled
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.1 – All Clean, 19.5 All Clean, 20.0 – All Clean. Completed 19.1 JMP Live installer testing in French. Updated failing Control Chart testcases in the 19.1 and 19.5 branches. Continued planning for new process screening test coverage that will use new libraries and test step definitions provided by Steve.
- Mateo: Continued updating our JMP Live UI automated tests, focusing on the admin settings page, the admin pool page, and the admin server page. I also completed my part of the JMP Live 19.1 Installer testing.
Core
- Dan S: Linked Item work - now using script-comparison to determine if a linked report is "dirty". Improved behavior of linked reports within Projects. Added ability to set helpkey on PlatformLauncher::launchEmbedded() - by default, the existing helpkey will be cleared - this also avoids unexpected broadcast issues when opening/closing outlines of embedded reports.
- Evan: Preparing for Discovery. Linked Items work for EA2. Copy/Paste work for EA2.
- Xan: Continued work on significance brackets and correlation ellipse.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Added some more improvements to the acceptance sampling platform. Users can now toggle hiding some of the extra responses until they're ready to investigate them.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul N:
- Update JMPDtPreviewer to zlib 1.3.2
- JMP 20 zlib 1.3.2 update, with the help of Jim and Bob getting builds and installers to account for the name change from zlib.dll to z.dll.
- SAS Act Now training courses
- AWS activation Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instance running, for DEV activation JMP 17 and earlier
- VPC and security group configuration
- Daniel connected Dev web pages to the new EC2 instance
- Testing out the web pages. All but the manual appear to be working.
- Testing actual activation from a fresh build of JMP 16.1 macOS against the new Dev server. Activation returned a license, but JMP 16.1 didn’t accept it.
- Debugging JMP activation against the Dev server.
- Looking at the issue with jsite.py on macOS affecting Jim’s environment in the clean machine setup.
- Meeting and some work relating to Marketplace encrypted add-ins.
- Discovered yet another copy of zlib being included through the HDF5 import code
- Reworked the JMP 20 hdf5Import project to also point to the now singular 1.3.2 share zlib.dll
- Michael H: Adding “Tags” support to PI Server Importer.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Reviewing summer intern applications and preparing for initial interviews.
- Using JMP & JSL to analyze Interactive HTML JavaScript performance recordings.
- Completed the Q1 check-in course.
- Mike Stickles: Completed refactoring work on Bar Segments (JMPHTML-489), now in regression testing and bug-fixing mode.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Process Screening Triage (20): Started to compile a set of examples on JMP Live Daily, updating Jiras, meetings, dealt with differences in summary calculations vs. Control Chart Builder, started work on handling oddities when Process Screening is found inside a Dashboard or similar.
Note from Shannon
It’s almost March, but so far, I’m not impressed. Hopefully we’ll get some sun this weekend – either way, hope you enjoy it!
