19.1: Installer testing; signoff expected 3/13/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA2 Freeze 3/19/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for March 6, 2026!
As John Sall and Jon Weisz noted at our collaboration lunch in Cary on Wednesday, today (Friday) is Employee Appreciation Day. Of course, JMP appreciates all its employees year-round! There is a nice post in the community highlighting today's importance, with links to a video from Wednesday’s lunch. It’s always nice to see each other and catch up in person when possible, and it's great to wear our JMP sweatshirts before it gets too warm in NC!
In release news, we expect JMP 19.1 to be available in MyJMP on St. Patrick’s Day, the day after our Global Rest and Recharge Day on 3/16. DevOps team members are already setting up the infrastructure for our next monthly security release, 19.1.1, currently planned to be released in mid-April. JMP 20 EA2 freeze is planned for 3/19, so please continue to add and update feature pages with items that are ready to test!
JMP team members are looking forward to another productive round of customer feedback at Discovery Summit Europe next week! At DSE, the PM team plans to have focus group meetings with users on Multivariate Capability, SPC/Capability, Model Center, and Accelerated Stability. Users will also have an opportunity to provide feedback in the JMP Lab on the JMP Assistant, Linked Items, Multivariate Capability, and Significance Brackets in Graph Builder. Mia Stephens asks that you please add your notes from the conference here on the Collected Notes from Discovery Europe 2026 page. Hope everyone has a wonderful time – safe travels to Sorrento, Italy!
Thanks very much to Paul Spychala for presenting at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! Paul shared information on the recent transition the HTML team has made to using ES Modules for Javascript development. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.1 QA Signoff – 3/13/26
- 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
Core
- Evan:
- HTML is now copied and used effectively in Teams, Outlook, Word, etc. This produces structured documents with headings, graphs, tables, and more.
- SVG is now copied and used effectively in PowerPoint, Word, etc. This produces vector screenshots.
- Higher resolution monitors now copy higher resolution raster screenshots.
- Dave B: JMP Discovery preparation. Worked with John Schroedl on a new crash handler that will hopefully create crash files for what have been silent crashes like stack overflows. Fixed a couple of drag / drop crashes in graph builder.
- Xan: Added Significance Brackets options to the Graph Builder Bar element. Added basic hover labels to brackets.
- Dan S: Work on linked items to improve report-dirty behaviors and add File>Save/SaveAs dialog.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Working on further improvements to the sample size explorer infrastructure, with the end goal of allowing for full scriptability of those platforms. Also, my paper with Brad Jones and Christ Nachtsheim finally got accepted on Monday!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Michael H: PI Server Import using PI Tags - initial implementation is now pushed for anyone who wants to try it out.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Working on resolving unit test module loading failures occurring only in our Jenkins build with Chrome on Windows that started when attempting to update Three.js to the latest revision.
- Met with James Koepfler, Haley Tiblin, and Eric Hill to discuss testing of statistical platforms on JMP Live.
- Attended a Q1 Goals Setting workshop for managers.
- Interviewed candidates for our summer intern position.
- Monitored the chat for Paul’s JMP Dev presentation on ES modules.
- Met with Dieter and Paul to review feature requests.
- Mike Stickles: Completed main phase of refactoring Bar Segments (JMPHTML-489). The original issue was simply to separate interval bars into their own subclass, but the final product separates out all implemented bar styles (interval, interval side-by-side, range, bullet, nested, and stacked) into their own subclasses. The final phase - refactoring the loadCache() function into an initialization routine that does not use a cache object and separating out its style-specific functionality into the subclasses - is being deferred to a later time. Currently finishing code clean-up and expect to have the code ready for review sometime Monday.
- Paul Spychala: Have been working on performance improvements last few weeks for JMP HTML.
- This includes reusing a report on an active JMPLive session and keep the report in HTML and JMP in lockstep with each other (JMPHTML-15312).
- Another improvement is to rework how we export HTML profiler formulas to HTML to reduce how many times we create and verify formulas. (JMPHTML-15320)
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.5 - Change rules for who can move a post. 20 - Replaced some third party packages whose maintenance isn't ideal. Support new summary_count for Process Screening. Other - Whitebox testing.
Statistics
- John Sall
- In the launch dialog, widen the fields to see the new default Action Upper Quantile Prob of 0.99865 (JMP-29875).
- Limit the non-normal capability indexes to applying only for Spec Limits, not Action Limits, adding a "Prob Out of Spec" column. It still does "Prob of Action" if Action limits externally specified (JMP-29876).
- Implement "Test Out Of Spec" for Distribution chart types (JMP-29876).
- Graph the control limits as a step function (JMP-29899).
- In Fit Least Squares Profiler, it was folding into rows with only 7 factors, fixed (JMP-29888).
- In Process Screening:
- Elizabeth: Worked with Meichen on a way to disable the RTMs in GLMM when the platform is embedded in Causal; ultimately followed a template that GenReg uses when it is embedded in various platforms. Working on a fix for a crash in Mixed (JMP-24108) that requires a strange set of steps to produce (including changing modeling type after defining the effects in the dialog).
Stat Testing
- Mark: I am reviewing and revising the documentation and flowchart for the usability study tool with Jacob as we prepare to submit a modified version of the tool to the JMP Marketplace. I modernized and extended the add-in to perform the Grubb's outlier test before submitting it to Addison for testing. I will now modernize the Dixon outlier test.
- Tonya: Testing process screening new features regarding distributional charts: percentile method, spec limits, capability statistics, and test out of spec. Update process screening unit tests due to default action limit changes. Refactoring some unit tests.
- Jacob: Testing JMP-25793, attempting to reproduce other cases of the crash. Investigating Performance issues. Working on the JMP Study Tool, with Mark Bailey.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew:
- Delivered the JMP Validation Suite add-in to interested parties to deliver to customers for initial feedback. This add-in combines the installer verification tool that Bob builds and posts to the JMP Quality website and the NIST testing tool, runs the tools, and produces a PDF with the results including signature pages for sign-off. This fills a gap with competitor visualization tools that offer this capability.
- Provided JSL example for HyeWon Jung to present to a customer in Korea interested in generating HTML of the JMP Clinical Patient Profiler report.
- Started work on a Clinical Study Report for JMP Clinical which will enable a user to pull together the outputs of other reports in the review and embed them in a user-provided DOCX
- Anisa: Testing documentation for new reports in 19.1, writing unit tests for oncology reports.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: We have held sessions in our sales enablement training series the last two weeks:
- On February 25th we had a training walking through JMP Marketplace updates, success stories, and featured extensions that show how the JMP Marketplace can spark more strategic conversations. From Development, Haley Tiblin and Richard Zink shared the Moderation and Mediation for JMP Pro and Network Plot extensions and how it can further enhance value to customers with JMP and JMP Pro. If you want to learn more, you can watch the recording here.
- We also had a training on the Health and Life Sciences industry this week where Valérie Nedbal, Byron Wingerd, and Andrea Coombs walked through the industry processes and how all the JMP products can add value to the different sectors of this industry. If you want to learn more, you can watch the recording here.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: This week’s Collaboration Wednesday lunch was well-attended and a great chance to spend time with JMP staff from various teams. Thank you to everyone who provided for the event! Next week, Tech Support will be reviewing launch tasks ahead of the release of JMP 19.1. Kai Janson from Tech Support and Corrado Tricoli from Engagement will be representing us at Discovery Summit in Sorrento. We are jealous but looking forward to seeing their pictures and selfies with users!
Technical Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for the 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
- Shannon L: JMP release 19.1.0 wrap up, including final security reviews and assisting with Jira issue cleanup. Assistance with documentation procurement and third-party software registration. Continued JMP Marketplace Monetization program work, including meetings with R&D and providing input to draft legal agreement topics for technical partners. Atlassian admin and users support. Weekly technical meetings.
- Jim: Resolved signing issues of files (on Windows) and of the builds (19.2 on Macintosh – thank you, Michael Hecht!). Prepping for the JMP 19.1.1 branch expected early next week. Disabled several older Jenkins jobs. Enhancing JMP build scripts.
- Bob: Merging of EA and production scripts for version 20. Enhancement of scripting logs to better detect errors. Work with Roger on methods for future installer validation file web placement.
- Melanie: Updated and improved my import JMP tables for branching tasks and end of release tasks; Walked Shannon Leslie through those tables; Created all the Jiras for Branching and End of Release tasks for 19.1.1.
- Myron:
- JMPTOOL-2049 – update paths to testing dashboard text files on AWS machines
- JMPTOOL-2069 – add tolerance/error handling to jobs interacting with Jira
- JMPTOOL-2066 – review/update and possibly upgrade code for stringbot paths
Localization
- Trish:
- Provided cost estimates to product management to support Brazilian Portuguese translations for JMP software and small documentation projects.
- Most vendors onboarded into ZIP. Working with web team to coordinate contract for Simplified Chinese reviewer who will expand review to web content.
- Attended consulting session with Ryffine to discuss approach for localization.
- Allison: Sent out Marketplace strings for translation and translated the strings for ZH. Validated localized 19.1 Release Notes pdfs and prepared for handoff to Web team. Communicated with vendor on localization queries for Big Books; validated and processed invoices; gathered info for Brazilian Portuguese localization research project.
- Krzysztof: Held a meeting with Ryffine to discuss localization topics in relation to Oxygen migration. Started investigating chunking of Oxygen files for localization and validation of localized dita files. Preparing l10n workflow for JMP Live 19.5 localization.
- Howard: Refactoring Dashboard API and project classes. Finalizing Dashboard API document (https://jmpdiscovery.atlassian.net/wiki/x/ZICmI)
Oxygen Training.
- Sandy: Worked on restructure of dashboard validation classes. Worked on adding new feature to Korean report we provide vendor. Attended Oxygen meeting for Localization.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished up the JMP Live/Public localized help and handed off to Jill for peer review. Jill has finished her peer review and only found one issue with the Korean footer, which we're working on fixing. Handoff to test is scheduled for Monday. Working on the JMP Live 19.5 config guide. Meeting with Alex next week.
- Chris: With help from John Mosier, got the 19.1 sitemap out. Met with Thomas about Clinical styles. Wrote a script to convert the Oxygen context-help-map.xml to a json helpmap. Oxygen training and trying to get a framework running.
- Devon: Handed off review PDFs to Stats team to start work building library of LaTeX equations, working on a mixed file size approach for Stats and Doc teams, VSST approvals for LaTeX plugins.
- Jill: 3/2 UI string reviews, reviewing UG Jiras, and peer reviewing JMP Live localization files.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Eric:
- Verified JMP 20.0 fix for customer reported bug where any invalid connection string (bad database name or placeholders for UID and/or PWD or changing driver prompt) opens an unskippable window.
- Testing import table performance enhancement for JMP 20.0 using Snowflake connector.
- Testing story for support of pre-opened table passthrough for Python-based data connector types
- Investigation of unknown JSL Unit Test failures in DataTable/ODBC
- Attended the Mimic Testing Framework demo; a new testing tool utilizing JSL to manipulate mouse click and other interactive actions and tests in the UI.
- Nick H: Finished up 19.1 installer testing. Working on setting up our nightly failure email system to work with suffix runs, including options to send failure reports by testers as well as complete test result reports to individual users. Updated the prod dashboard to use the local locations for log, dnc, and crash files (dev dashboard is still in progress). Continuing to work on small 20.0 feature verifications.
- Justin: Working on validating and writing the automation code for testing the new functionality of the jmp.Image type object in the Python integration so that users can actively manipulate images as numpy arrays of JSL colors. In addition, I've worked on continuing updates to the CAS automation suite and working towards renewing the recently expired license on our Viya 3.5 CAS.
- Mandy: Mostly working on the Dynamic Tables - adding test cases to my tests in Data Table and reporting crashes or issues with Split, Stack, Transpose, Summary. Gathering thoughts and ideas to work on EA2 videos for Dynamic Tables and Auto Tagging new features. Worked on testing and verifying JIRA’s and adding tests where needed.
- Hunter: Finished JMP 19.1 installer testing and updated the related JIRA items. Responded to JMP 20 EA 1 feedback. Checked the status of unexpected behavior in JMP 20 projects from the new data table linked items functionality and added comments to the projects related JIRA item JMP-29694 for the remaining issues. Added case numbers to JIRA items from crash reports I had submitted in the previous months.
- Audrey: Finalizing JMP 19.1 testing. Learned about Mimic thanks to a demo from Mike Muhlada to our testing team to get us all started (thanks Mike!). Working with Justin Kusch trying to gain access to machines that host our CAS/Viya environments. A few Jira verifications.
Web Testing – Cary
- Seema: Finished up training and worked on the following Jiras this week:
- JMP Trial build should only be able to publish to JMP Public
- Nobody should be able to script JMP Public
- JMP JSL - Get Username() doesn't return the username
- Clean up remaining obsolete JMP Live preferences
- Back end: Handle JSON summary objects that cut across location (top) chart and dispersion (bottom) chart
- In Progress:
- Front end: Handle JSON summary objects that cut across location (top) chart and dispersion (bottom) chart
- Front End: Handle new qc_group attribute
- Accepted and Closed:
- Create Post dialogs are behaving persistent. They should close if not dirty
- In copy and move dialogs, new folder created in different space doesn't appear
- Combine installer and updater into single installer
- In Progress:
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.1 – Daily automation suspended with testing completion this week, 19.5 All Clean, 20.0 – 9 new diffs this week…possibly related to JMP Live Vuetify 4 update. Finished 19.1 JMP Live installer testing. Addressed automation failures at 20.0. Continued new testcase development to use new automation Process Screening libraries.
- Anna:
- Writing tests for FIXED issues for SP3D, CCB, GB.
- Reported bugs found in same areas.
- Verified fixed for Graph Builder.
- JMP Live installer testing for security release.
- Hui:
- Opened 1 Jira ticket (JMPHTML-15323) and closed 3 Jira tickets.
- Completed JMP Live 19.1 installation testing.
- Resumed testing I18N testing on JMP Live 19.5 (JMPTEST-2095) by creating and validating related subtasks.
Note from Shannon
Hope everyone enjoys the spring-like weather this weekend! But don’t be deceived… :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
