19.1.2: Security Freeze 5/7/26 • 19.2: Code Approval Mode begins 6/18/26 • 20.0: open in main • 20 EA3 Freeze 4/30/26; Feature Freeze 7/23/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 17, 2026!
JMP 19.1.1 is now available in MyJMP. Thanks to all who worked on this monthly security update! Work is underway on our next security update, JMP 19.1.2. We also have about two weeks until our JMP 20 EA3 Code Freeze. Please continue to update your Feature Pages so that customers know what’s ready to test in this iteration.
Thanks very much to Xan Gregg for presenting at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! Xan shared 6 new Graph Builder (and Graph Builder adjacent) features added in JMP 20. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Glad to see so much enthusiasm for taking advantage of these new capabilities! Xan noted that there are additional EA videos available for some of these features in MyJMP. All JMP employees can access these in MyJMP under Early Adopter, Videos, data and usability studies.
Please sign up on the JMP Dev Volunteer list in Confluence if you would like to present at a dev meeting soon! Our summer interns will be joining on May 19, and their end of summer presentations will be in July and early August. With new developers joining the team, FYI that there will likely be some heavily C++-focused topics coming in future sessions. I will make sure to call out those topics in future invites since they will likely only be of interest to C++ developers.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the February and March 2026 product changes for Atlassian products!
In February and March, 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:
- Easily find content inside expandable sections with Find & Replace
- Replacing "None" with clearer default field values
- Retain unsaved Description when pressing Escape
- And more!
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 20 EA3 Code Freeze - 4/30/26
- JMP 20 EA4 Code Freeze – 6/11/26
- JMP 19.2 Code Approval - 6/18/26
- JMP 19.2 Code Freeze – 7/9/26
- JMP 20 EA5 Code Freeze – 7/23/26
- JMP 20 Feature Freeze – 7/23/26
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates and JMP 20 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Mia: Product Managers Mia Stephens, Dieter Pisot and Sarah Sylvestre joined John Sall, Jules Parris, Chris Gotwalt and others from GTET and the Global Premier team at the JMP Inspire event at P&G Wednesday. The event had over 175 registrants from several business units. We provided a keynote on new features in JMP 19, gave talks with P&G staff in the two tracks (Fundamentals, Intermediate/Advanced), participated in a Categorical platform feedback session, answered questions at the help desk and JMP Lab, and closed the day with a leadership round table and roadmap discussion.
- Kaylee: This week we held a sales enablement training session with Dan Valente and Scott Allen all around AI/LLM and how JMP continues to be valuable to our customers in an increasingly AI-first world. While this training session had a target audience of sales, it was an incredibly valuable training that would benefit anybody from watching it. Here is the recording, and for a further breakdown you can read more on the “Best practices for positioning JMP in an AI-focused world" sales sheet. For more information on what product marketing has been up to, check out our April update.
- Valerie: Sales Highlight at Daiichi Sankyo, Tokyo. During our Asia trip last November, Sarah Gilyard and I had the opportunity to visit Daiichi Sankyo in Japan. While I’m not sure if this is connected to a recent upgrade (addition of 100 JMP licences), Kyoko-san shared a sales highlight with us that I thought would be valuable to share Sales highlight: JMP expansion at Daiichi Sankyo - JMP User Community
- Bryan:
- DOE icon modernization (Fluent System alignment)
- Iteration and coordination with Ryan, Jacob, and Mark Bailey
- Delivery and iteration with John Schroedl
- P&G usability support
- Machine setup, including AWS content and scripts to reset JMP state between sessions
- Assistant install and run testing
- Usability test script updates
- Event‑specific Microsoft Forms
- Accessibility (keyboard + screen reader)
- Multiple Core/Host working meetings. Dan Schikore, Evan McCorkle, and John Schroedl are making progress on keyboard and screen‑reader accessibility, an area critical to JMP’s accessibility maturity.
- Created an Excel vs JMP keyboard access comparison document which was used for communication about coverage and gaps with David White and Evan
Technical Support and Engagement
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
- Bob:
- Released 19.1.1 installer files into MyJMP (JMP-30030)
- Worked with Jim Borek on strategies for a process that will determine if nightly builds can be turned off when no important changes are made to any code. (JMPTOOL-2148) (JMPTOOL-2151)
- Worked with Drew Foglia ideas on how to modify the process I use to take advantage of the great work he is doing for product validation (JMPMRKT-2015)
- Used new 19.1.2 branch and completed task of creating new installers for Windows. (JMPTOOL-3126)
- Jim:
- Applied OS updates to numerous mac OS build and unit test machines
- Thanks to Bob Hickey for engaging in a conversation on how we can create an accessible “breadcrumb” that would indicate whether a release of JMP was built on any given day – currently implemented for mac JMP 19.x.x (JMPTOOL-1708)
- Shannon L: Wrapped up most of the end of release (EOR) 19.1.1 tasks. Planning underway for the next monthly security release for JMP and JMP Live, 19.1.2, which is scheduled for May 19. Atlassian administration and user support on several topics. Work is continuing with the JMP Marketplace Monetization project, with meetings this week on encryption, a Salesforce stakeholder meeting, and a discussion with Legal on the agreement needs for our Technology Partners. Weekly technical meetings, plus a requirements gathering and planning meeting on making a change to when and how we run our monthly dot-dot builds, and all of the downstream handling.
- Melanie: Many additions, updates, and improvements to Branching and End of Release Tasks, including better ways to manage the entire JMP table -> Jira process. ● Stringbot for Sample Data testing and investigation – there are questions to ponder. ● Working with team on improving the dot-dot process, including evaluating the organization of some files in Perforce.
- Shannon C: Discussions on dot-dot builds. 1:1 meetings and group meetings with team members. Investigation of various crashes sent my way by TS and development. Reviewing existing crash Jira issues and new mystery crashes in 19.0.5, 19.1 and 19.1.1.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Prepared a test translation project for a potential new Chinese vendor. Updating and testing Jenkins jobs for future releases of JMP Live Help (new version numbers and new deliverables). Enhancing legacy string change reports with metadata on user ids and dates for the changed translations. Testing new L10N automation functionalities.
- Allison: Submitted a purchase request in Zip for ZH localization of upcoming V19 projects; processed Marketplace translations and pushed them to GIT; worked with Trish and Krzysztof on the sample to send to the potential ZH vendor for translation test; validated localized BigBooks pdfs and handed them off to QA for testing; completed a couple of courses in PLATO.
- Sandy: Worked on adding file validation back to end of populate job and adding more information to a vendor report.
- Trish: UG screenshots. Interviewed candidate for DTP posting.
Documentation
- Susan C:
- Finished updates for JMP Live 19.5 to User/Admin help, Install help, and SPC help.
- Sent JMP Live help PDFs for review.
- Created & communicated process plans for dot dot release notes.
- Verified 19.5 folder structure for the JMP Live help.
- Devon: Prepping to push converted XML files for writers to begin error-checking and post-conversion cleanup and helping Susan look at issues with cloud review of documentation.
- Jill: 4/13 UI string report and working on Dynamic Table Tools updates.
- Chris: Working on the HTML transform for the help.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Eric:
- Investigating and triaging ODBC related JSL Unit test results
- Verified and closed JMP-30008 Update to hdf5@2.1.1(Mac)/@2.1.0(Win) for Security Fixes at JMP 19.2 and 20
- Verified and closed JMP-30178: sqlite@3.51.3 upgrade for CVEs (CVE-2025-70873) at JMP 19.2 and 20. Will verify at 19.1.2 when development pushes upgrade there.
- Verified and closed JMP-30203: JMP 18/19/20 do not appear to be pulling the Excel source number in the Excel Import Wizard at JMP 19.2 and 20
- Verified and closed JMP-29748: Triple-S file with CSV data doesn't correctly treat 0's for multiple response values at JMP 19.2 and 20
- Verified and closed JMP-29983: TIMESTAMP is handled differently in 19 than in 18 presenting Oracle errors at JMP 19.2 and 20
- Verified and closed JMP-29946: Crash importing a large table with Snowflake Data Connector at JMP 19.2 and 20
- Completed GitHub Copilot training and requested license for AI experimentation in Testing.
- Hunter: Completed testing with several authorization cases where the expiration and termination dates were set to 2038 and later years. Resolved remote access issues connecting to testing Mac MDH374 in the lab. Responded to JMP 20 EA2 case and shared customer comments with Bryan F. in product management. More testing with the Qualcomm Adreno 31.0.133.1 graphics driver that was applied with one of the required system updates to our Arm64 Windows 11 ThinkPads. The intermittent crashes encountered running JMP tests with the hardware accelerated graphics preference enabled in JMP are no longer appearing with this version of the driver. Encountered a crash closing a project window with one of the nightly JMP 20 builds on Windows but had no success with repeated attempts to reproduce it. JIRA verifications.
- Mandy: Worked on verifying a few jiras; worked on a crash for a developer. Built JMP with XCode Debug at 20 to test some row state fixes developer was working on that would only show up with a debug build. Attended several meetings collaborating on Linked Items UX regroup - trying to decide how to handle feedback from DS-Europe and others on the data table in 20. Met with team mate to discuss how to run the CL’s during the day from JMPRUNNER on both Mac and Windows to catch issues when a lot of pushes are happening at one time.
- Justin: Updated tests to validate changes for Python 3.13.13 in JMP 20 and 19.2. Setting up CAS/SAS Viya and MATLAB automation tests in the Mac dedicated suffix testing environment once it gained VPN access. Testing data transfer of jmp.run_jsl() between JMP and Python environments when a jmp filepath is provided to the python function.
- Melisa:
- Successfully added my first 2 Mimic interactive tests with much help from Mike and Evan!
- Created a new story to track Round 2 of I18N testing for JMP20 and learned how to use the necessary scripts to import the correct information
- Began Round 2 of I18N Testing for JMP20
- Worked on testing various Tabulate fixes that came in this week
- Audrey: Reviewing information from SAS contact Cindy Taylor about SAS Viya deployments that her team supports. Summer intern prep.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.1.2 –– All Clean, the 19.1.2 automation pipeline was completed this week with nightly runs beginning on 4/16/26 , 19.5 - All Clean, 20.0 – All Clean! Completed a phase 1 automation feature file for process screening. These testcases focus on the process summary table, row selection/deselection, and the corresponding control charts. Steve and I continue to plan additional testcases involving triage capabilities. Our Process Screening Dev/Test meeting was successful.
- Seema
- Accepted and Closed:
- Disallow slashes and backslashes in user display names
- Convert files to typescript as pilot for copilot
- Created Jiras:
- Multiple notifications sent to same user when a report with Warnings is published
- In Progress:
- Deal with semicolons in ID column in PS and CCB
- CCB: use Unicode Unicode 0x1F as delimiter in warnings JSON qc_ids string
- PS: use Unicode Unicode 0x1F as delimiter in warnings JSON qc_ids string
- Helping Aurora create scenarios for Process Screening Triage scenarios
Core
- Dan S: Continuing work on Accessibility support for TableBox. Refactoring for Linked Items continuing work (this reintroduced and then fixed a data filter issue on Mac). Investigating progress bar for by-group launch.
- Xan: Multiple overlays variables, dev talk and string work.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: I've been preparing for my talk at DATAWorks next week. I've also been assessing the graphics code for reliability, to help out Eric on that in the near future. Minor bug fixing for sample size explorers too.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will: Added Snowflake Programmatic Access Token authorization. This will allow users to utilize the Snowflake data connector in JMP Live refresh scripts after two factor authentication is required for username and password authentication.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Performed whitebox testing for a day and reported observations
- Optimized exporting many histograms create from a linked subset(JMPHTML-15425).
- Created Interactive HTML Feature Requests for new JMP features demonstrated by Xan.
- Started reviewing JMP Live/JMP Public 19.5 documentation.
JMP Live
- Aurora:
- Process Screening triage (updating example scenarios for manual exploration and automated test, tweak handling of ID role, file a bunch of Jiras, meet with testers along with other devs).
- Iteration demo. Sprint planning. Documentation conversations.
- Created GitHub CoPilot demo video for JMP Live devs and testers (closing with disclaimers).
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Haley Tiblin and I taught a full-day longitudinal SEM workshop at the Society for Research in Adolescence. Attendees were super engaged and excited about JMP! Only one of them had heard about JMP before. A professor said she intends to use JMP to teach her SEM class next semester. And other attendees reported telling their friends about JMP during a break. It was a great experience! I also met with Dr. Christian Geiser (SEM expert and social media influencer)—he just posted his first SEM-in-JMP video on LinkedIn of many more to come!
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continuing to work on creating LaTeX markup for equations in JMP statistical documentation. We are over 80% done with Phase 1 (creating the markup), which should be the more time-consuming of the two phases of this project. (Phase 2 entails putting the markup from phase 1 into the converted documentation files.) Also starting to develop some guidelines for equation notation and style.
Stat Testing
- Mark: I modernized a 12-year-old JMP script to compute the confidence interval for the coefficient of variation at the request of Laura L. that I will submit to the JMP Marketplace after she approves it. I worked on a supplement and a flow chart with Jacob for an IDF for enhancements to the simulation of responses in DOE platforms. I attended the overview of image tests and began to study how to create them for Easy DOE and Bayesian Optimization.
- Tonya: Testing the new spec limits column property and colors with respect to my platforms. Testing the new proportional distributions in Process Screening. Testing zone drawing for proportional charts in Process Screening. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Some good progress and success running the JMP Clinical unit tests in batch overnight. Addressing some exceptional cases and will begin nightly runs at 19.2 and 20.0 this evening. This is running on a server we (JMP LifeSciences) manage which is a temporary solution until we can more tightly integrate into the JMP AWS/Jenkins infrastructure. Triaged issues at Amgen and Novo Nordisk, assisted PTCBio in their JMP Clinical evaluation, and thanks to Brian Boone, assisted Chris at the FDA with accessing SAS from JMP/JMP Clinical 19.
- Richard: Published two add-ins on Marketplace: Shift Plot and Funnel Plot. Working on a report that uses dual forest plots to summarize data over time.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all enjoy the spring weekend! Here’s hoping for some rain Sunday…
