19.1.2: Released on 5/18/26 • 19.1.3: Code Freeze 5/28/26 • 19.2: Code Approval Mode begins 6/18/26 • 20.0: open in main; Feature Freeze 7/23/26 • 20 EA4 Freeze 6/11/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 22, 2026!
Audrey shared this note:
A warm welcome to all of our new and returning interns! Most of this group was able to attend SAS Internpalooza on SAS Campus this week, which took place in Building C. They also attended JMP Academy for Interns, got introduced to SAS and JMP culture, met a lot of people, bonded with each other, and started learning about their summer projects. We look forward to seeing what they will do! Stay tuned for more information about them as the summer progresses. BOLO for future articles about them on InsideJMP. Welcome to JMP!
- Tawann Alvarez working with Sara Doudt and Kaylee Warren
- Dev Deshmukh working with Curt Hinrichs
- Destiny Faison working with Jeff Hudgins
- Amelia Garrelts working with Landra Robertson
- Daylen Hicks working with Qiana Perry
- Drew Hunter working with Shanno Leslie
- Connie Kuang working with Sheila Spence
- Julia Liu working with Ryan Lekivetz
- Dhruv Menon working with Whitney Hicks
- Arnav Murthi working with John Powell
- Ayumi Mutoh working with James Keopfler
- Jace Ritchie working with Ryan Lekivetz
- Khushi Shah working with Audrey Shull
- Morgan Simon working with Russ Wolfinger
- Yiran Song (returning) working with Russ Wolfinger
- Jake Sumner working with Luciano Silva
- Zachary White working with James Koepfler and Laura Lancaster
- Kris Wilson working with Michael Crotty
- Allison Wray working with Qiana Perry
- Ruoxuan Wu working with Meichen Dong
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If you’re local, you should have received an invitation to the JMP pizza party with the interns next Tuesday. Cafés will be closed since SAS’ Rest and Recharge Day is that day. JMP will celebrate our next Global Rest and Recharge Day on Friday June 19 instead.
Notes on Releases
- 19.1.2 installers were released in MyJMP on May 18. We have both release notes and a Security Bulletin to detail important updates made in this dot-dot release.
- Emergency bug fix integrations into the 19.1.3 track are ongoing. All fixes currently planned for 19.1.3 have been sponsored by PM, TS or User Enablement and are in the process of being signed off by Security and Testing managers. The approval process for emergency bug fix releases can be found here in Confluence. 19.1.3 Code Freeze is planned for May 28, and Security Freeze will follow on June 4. Thanks to all who have helped fix these issues and carefully vet their resolution in 20.0 and 19.2 first!
- Our Code Approval milestone for JMP 19.2 is about a month away - we’ll begin approval mode at the end of the day on Thursday, June 18.
- JMP 20 EA3 is out gathering feedback from our early adopters, and the EA4 freeze is coming up soon, on June 11th. Thank you for continuing to keep those JMP 20 Feature Pages up to date!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.1.3 Code Freeze - 5/28/26
- 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
Core
- Xan Gregg: Continued work on custom JSL Graph Builder elements. Re-enabled brackets for unequal variances after Jianfeng Ding implemented Games-Howell for that case. ScriptItem argumentors now preserve rvalue-ness, addressing a memory issue Paul Nelson diagnosed.
- John Schroedl: With the goal of fewer support issues, the 19.2 project now directly includes vcredist files. Changed the Home Window recent files list to a ListView control which uses fluent styling and has the more modern selection UX and matches recent portable list styling changes. Updated our copy of the C++ Guideline Support Libary (GSL) header files. Accessibility work: Changed JSysSecondaryHilite on Windows to improve text and icon contrast. Working with Evan on changes to honor the Windows Settings > Accessibility > Text size scale factor. Discussions with Dan on how we might improve our handling of peer structure changes.
- Evan McCorkle: Changing ListBoxBox selection styling on Windows. We are moving from an accented background to an accented indicator. This aligns with modern Windows styling and makes icons more legible. Also, modeling effectiveTextScaling(fontSize, textScale) function for Windows accessibility text scaling. This ensures that large text is scaled less aggressively than small text.
- Dan Schikore: SendToReport/Dispatch updates to reduce unnecessary TextBox dispatch. Accessibility fixes for Custom Marker dialog and collapsed Splitter layouts. Working on accessibility changes for ColSpanBox.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb King: This week, I addressed some bugs in OC curves and continued cleaning up my sample size infrastructure changelist, working with Yeng (she's been very helpful!!). I also did some additional work on generating a summary report for the new acceptance sampling explorer, including the ability to export to PDF or RTF.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Met with Arnav Murthi and discussed potential projects he will work on this summer in the Interactive HTML team and how we will help him get settled in.
- Update the new Three.js OrbitControls camera controller to behave like a trackball (JMPHTML-15555).
- Added support for the Fixed Marker Label Color preference (JMPHTML-13462).
- Fixed a crash in Scatterplot 3D with missing categories and improved support for missing values (JMPHTML-15534).
- Completed Q2 check-in training.
- Mike Stickles:
- Submitted fix for JMPHTML-15538 (Format Pattern: HTML5 losts its format pattern when using <.>) and sent to testing.
- Completed fix for JMPHTML-15544 (Format Pattern: Label by value does not honor format pattern), need to clean it up and put it up for review.
- Investigated JMPHTML-15550 (Marker Format Pattern: Incorrect German (de_DE) month abbreviations on X‑axis tick labels), found that JMP is not consistent between Mac and Windows on how it displays German month abbreviations, and on both platforms it exports abbreviations to HTML that don’t fully match the ones displayed in JMP. Have tabled this for now.
- Began investigating JMPHTML-15545 (Format Pattern: Reference line label not honored).
- Arnav Murthi:
- Completed SAS orientation & JMP Academy
- Met with my manager and team a couple times to get onboarded onto the project
- In the process of completing general onboarding tasks (e.g. Workday setup, ethics & compliance training)
JMP Live
- Aurora Tiffany-Davis: Finished improved audit logging. Started on "User Report Preferences" feature support. Fixed some bugs. Updated some third party packages.
Statistics
- Laura Castro-Schilo: Integrated remaining SEM bug fixes and improvements to 19.2. Continue plugging in the multi-correlation fitter into SEM; initial work is done but revealed some slowness so I’m investigating how to speed up the code. Participated in a couple GRA interviews and met with Elyse to walk through some cpp examples.
Stat Testing
- Tonya Mauldin: Attended a harmonization meeting with product management. Researched some issues that came up during the harmonization meeting. Updated unit tests due to recent expected changes. Bug verification.
- Mark Bailey: I attended the second tutorial about using covering arrays in JSL unit testing. I reviewed a white paper about Phase I and II in establishing control limits for Annie. I am developing a query to extract pertinent data about unit test failures.
- Jacob Rhyne:
- Writing new tests for alias terms in DOE.
- Exploring using Github CoPilot to help create unit tests
- Cleaning unit tests, updating tests to account for random seed changes in DOE and Compare Each Cell as Suffix in Categorical
System/Host Testing
- Justin Kusch: This week I worked to validate a crash fix for the python automation suite and updated some test cases to accommodate updates in how we use pyarrow for data table conversion. In addition, I've begun manual testing for the python virtual environment feature. Finally, I've validated bug fixes and close the stories for python pixel manipulation and run_jsl updates.
- Mandy Chambers: Worked on writing JSL tests for Recode, with selecting columns together to recode; Working on Column tags and other JSL that has been added - need to add a few tests there too; tested data tables after pulling out the linked items/reports - things are back like they were in JMP 19 mostly; Also working on simulating data to use for tags/filter views in samples - will pull Mia Stephens in to assist with that and try and add 2-3 new tables for JMP 20. On Mac I took a shelved build that Michael had for 19.2 and built it with Xcode and then tested the fix - SQL file related, so he will now add this fix he had pushed to 20 already to 19.2.
- Eric Horton:
- Verified and closed JMP-29679 Allow query fields on the authorization and token urls for JMP 19.2 and 20. This allows the user to append query parameters to the end of these URLs.
- Investigated a beta report related to EA2 where a customer from HP inquired about future driverless connection to AWS. Requested more details from the customer about the specific database they are using on AWS. In the meantime, pointed them to our S3 Data Connector for AWS in the JMP Marketplace.
- Working to debug testODBCMySQL in the Dedicated Suffix Environment. Updated the Connection Info table with correct driver version for MySQL currently installed in this environment.
- Start working to debug the testODBCTeradata test in the Dedicated Suffix Environment.
- Attended the GitHub Copilot Workshop as a part of the SAS Global Unconference 2026.
- Audrey Shull: Tasks related to onboarding interns was most of my week, but I also looked at 19.1.3 and reviewed some security items that were open for that track.
- Hunter Weaver: Spent most of the week validating authorization cases on clean and upgraded systems with JMP 19.2 and 20 for recent encryption enhancements. Other JIRA verifications
Web Testing
- Hui Di:
- Validation completed: Portable layer support and key interactions validated for JMP Live Process Screening and Control Chart Builder; histogram deselection performance confirmed stable. (JMP-30649, JMP-30634, JMPHTML-14636)
- Risks surfaced: Interactive HTML5 output drops state during Mosaic row exclusion (regression) and Process Screening publish fails with non‑numerical proportions. (JMPHTML-15558, JMP-30817)
- Upcoming focus: Log‑message correctness for HTML5 static image generation, JMP Live 19.5 translation sync, Process Screening scenario coverage, RTF export verification, and JMP Live 20 I18N kickoff.
- Seema Dutta: Spent some time with Josh getting information on how to close out security related Jiras so I'll be able to help with those now.
- Accepted and Closed:
- Synchronized label showing up on user profile even for local users
- Control Charts notification - Double alarms from JMP Live with SPC
- Impossible to clear secondary email
- JMP Connections via JMP 19 Need Cleaning Up
- Consider using new_marker attribute onscreen?
- Created Jiras:
- Dashboard with Control Chart publish to JMP Live fails with error for empty warnings when using column switcher
- JMP 17.2 (mac only) does not handle publishing to a swerver with unsupported authentication provider
- Natalie Horton: HTML Automation report: 19.5 - All Clean, 19.6 – new branch, daily runs began this week, All Clean, 20.0 – All Clean, awaiting image benchmark updates in request mode. Additional Process Screening selection features were added to the automation tests this week. New automation created using the report canvas, awaiting additional back-end step definitions.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew Foglia: Working with marketing and customer enablement to prototype moving PDF generation of validation tools (installation validation and NIST testing) from add-in on Marketplace into the tools directly. Triage and fix JMP Clinical 19.2/20.0 Jiras. Final integrations for JMP Clinical 19.1.3.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Dan Valente: The product management team had a productive week of meetings and enjoyed collaborating in person around a variety of initiatives in JMP 20 and beyond.
- Mia Stephens: Attended several meetings with PM and development. With EA4 freeze right around the corner it was great to see updates on many important features in JMP 20. Enjoyed coffee cart Wednesday and team building with product management and product marketing. Thanks to Hunter Weaver for letting me raid his mint supply : )
Technical Support and Engagement
Wendy Murphrey:
This week, Adam Morris and Laura Archer assisted users at the Novonesis Hackathon in the GEC. Ryan Gilmore and I met with the interns at JMP Academy to talk about User Enablement.
US and Japan Tech Support would like to offer BIG THANKS to Daniel Powell for his quick action to restore access to the activation server this week!
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
- Bob Hickey:
- pushed JMP 19.1.2 externally (JMP-30404)
- Final testing and release of 19.1.2 Installer validation benchmark files for web download (JMPWEB-2841)
- Updated the 19.2 Windows installers to remove the need for using Microsoft installers to lay down the file and instead we just put the needed DLLs into the JMP install folder. This work had previously been done successfully for version 20 and was a safe move to add to 19.2. This will hopefully eliminate the many calls to Technical Support by customers with launch problems of JMP. Much thanks to Jim Borek and John Schroedl for this quick turnaround. (JMP-30757)
- added a file to source folder in 19.1.3 Perforce to be used as a trigger mechanism to forcibly launch a build in situations where no source code files have changed. (JMPTOOL-2216)
- updated JMP Live 19.6.x dates on Confluence page to reflect the change to have JMP Live 19.6 line up with the JMP 19.2 launch timelines.
- Shannon Conners: Attended DevOps working group meeting on dot-dot release processes to discuss current status, identify next steps and brainstorm about future ideas. Met several new interns in the halls and at lunch. I look forward to meeting more of you as the summer progresses! Worked on JMPTOOL Jira triage and 19.1.3 issue review with Shannon L. Numerous 1:1 meetings and group meetings. Happy to see several members of our PM team in town this week and also Trish O’Grady who was in town for a concert and visited us at the coffee cart on Wednesday morning! Regrouped on various topics with Ops group - Jira dashboard for Critical issues, Priorities page updates and list of items planned for 19.1.3 emergency bug fixes.
- Myron Chandler: I'm mainly working on JMPTOOL-1884: update the crash process to recognize ARM.
- Jim Borek:
- After receiving a temporary Perforce license, I assigned seats for all interns that needed access (thank you, Audrey Shull!) and other new R&D hires
- Helped to get approved fixes integrated into the JMP 19.1.3 branch
- Coordinated with Daniel Powell to test recent software authorization changes on nightly unit test machines
- Worked with Bob Hickey to make a “reverse kill switch” work to force a build of a dot-dot release when no source code changes were made
- Worked with Michael Hecht to get a thread sanitizer build of JMP 20 set up for a unit test suite run
- General script work on mac OS and WinOS for various JMP builds (20.0, 19.x.x, Intel, ARM).
- Melanie Drake: Worked with Susan on re-finalizing Release Notes for 19.1.3 for some late requested changes. • Finishing out branching tasks for 19.1.3. • Working on end of release tasks for 19.1.2. • Improving both task lists for next time around. • Met with working group on dot-dot releases to plan continuing improvements and next steps. • Verifying some final tasks for the giant TestBot migration to AWS • Met several of our new interns – welcome to JMP!
Localization
- Krzysztof Józefowicz: Handled localization projects for JMP Live Public Templates, Release Notes and Marketplace. Worked on a report that shows discrepancies between main and rel branch strings for PortableUI. Preparing 19.2 SampleData and PortableUI localization projects. Designing new L10N workflow features (export and push of localizations on project launch - for reference).
- Trish O’Grady: Release notes for 19.1.2 delivered to translation; continue to screen resumes and HireVue videos for DTP replacement position; triage translation questions for JMP Live 19.5 help.
- Sandy Jenkins: Testing new populate job for oxygen files. Updating legacy string change report for PortableUI with more data.
Documentation
- Jill Amaya: Continuing work on RSM oXygen conversion files and peer reviewed QPM callout and converted files along with JMP Live/Public files.
- Qiana Perry:
- Attended meetings.
- Finished FLM file clean-up.
- Continued CR file clean-up.
- Prepared for summer interns.
- Performed project planning and coordination.
- Susan Conaghan:
- 19.1.2 RNs completed
- Oxygen:
- Finished cleaning up LS book
- Peer reviewed RSM clean up Jiras
- Finished cleaning up the QPM callouts
- Working on QPM x-ref cleanup
- Intern prep:
- Updated MS Planner for Allison with a few getting started ideas
- Gave presentation to Allison and Daylen about the doc teams - who we are, what we do, how we do it
- Chris Barrett: Cleaned XML. Worked on our Oxygen framework. Prepped for giving Oxygen training next week. Welcomed our interns, and started getting Daylen, our developer intern, settled in.
~ Note from Melanie
Enjoy this Memorial Day weekend!
And from Shannon Conners:
