19.1.3: Release Planned for 6/16/26 • 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 June 5, 2026!
From the Desk of Shannon Conners:
We have passed our Code Freeze milestone for 19.1.3 emergency bug fixes. All expected bug fixes have been integrated and today is our Security Freeze for this dot-dot track so the security team is doing final reviews of third party library details. We plan to create final installer candidates this Sunday evening for testing to vet next week with installer release expected on June 16.
As I mentioned at last week’s meeting, June is going to be a very busy month for development – in addition to finishing up 19.1.3, testing and releasing those installers, JMP 20 EA4 freeze is on June 11 and our Code Approval period for 19.2 starts on June 18.
We will continue to use the regular email based approval process to request JMP fixes to 19.2 after June 18. If you need to request a JMP fix during approval mode, please follow the instructions in the Outlook calendar reminder sent to development earlier in the cycle. There is also a Confluence page with more details about approval mode here: JMP Code Approval Mode
If you have any fixes that you intend to resolve in 19.2 before Code Freeze in early July, please make sure they are marked with a Planned version of 19.2. And please make sure that an item is fixed and verified in 20.0 before integrating to 19.2. In rare cases, I know this approach may not be feasible but in the majority of situations it is, so we consider fixing and verification in main/20.0 first to be a best practice.
Thanks very much to John Sall for showing many updates to Process Screening for JMP 20 (36 major features!!). If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Notes on Releases
- 19.1.3 is frozen and the final installer candidate will be made Sunday night 06/07/2026. Signoffs are next week, with the planned release to MyJMP on Tuesday, 06/16/2026.
- 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 20 EA4 Code Freeze – 6/11/26
- JMP 19.1.3 MyJMP Release - 6/16/26
- 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
- Dave Barbour: Debugging an MFI multithreading bug • Found and fixed an add-in builder bug related to Mac filewatcher changes Diagnosed a different Mac 19.2 mfi and add-in builder bug triggered by a filewatcher bug
- Dan Schikore: Improved accessibility support in the Graph Customize dialog with more control labeling for screen readers. There is a new MarkerBox for selecting markers that is used in the customize dialog, in preferences, and in Pareto that handles focus and accessibility options. Working on additional accessibility fixes for TableBox.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Mike Stickles: Finished work on JMPHTML-15504 (Marker Format Pattern: tooltip does not show the format pattern), submitted and handed off for testing. Investigated JMPHTML-15548 (Marker Format Pattern: Format pattern lost after reset axis), found that the issue was a generic axis issue rather than a format pattern issue and updated the Jira. Currently looking at several candidates for new features to implement in Interactive HTML.
- John Schroedl: Updated host controls to allow portable overrides of accessible name and help text. Filed Narrator bug in feedback hub. Pushed project change which should help avoid having the JMPCSharp project always rebuilding when switching build configurations. More tuning of the recent files transition to ListView including a crash reported by Mark Bailey. Updated host tree selection style to better match WinUI. Various crash investigations and Visual Studio assistance.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed an issue with unsupported graphs not rendering static when combined with graphs that are supported (JMPHTML-14742).
- Q2 Check-ins and Development Goals discussions.
- Investigated Scatterplot 3D options that were not supported in JMP 19 for potential addition in JMP 20.
- Started working on Connect Points feature:
- Arnav Murthi (intern reporting to John Powell):
- Completed the SAS Programming I certification training
- Explored the C++ codebase to get a better idea of how the crosshair tool was implemented
- Planned out a general implementation for the crosshair tool for the HTML exports
JMP Live
- Aurora Tiffany-Davis:
- Process Screening Triage: improve performance (in one area, plenty more work remains), adding more filter options for a client query, bug fixing, prep for informal usability study.
- Report Preference Sets: add server support for updating and deleting.
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In Process Screening
- Support Phase Charts in Live;
- eliminate TSAN data race (JMP-30934);
- provide Out of Spec Count and Rate columns for Distributional chart types (JMP-30191).
- Prepare 4 videos and one Dev meeting demo.
- In Categorical
- Support color specification for comparison letters (JMP-30393);
- Prohibit "Significantly great than category" when multiple response sample term (JMP-30924).
- In Partition, fix nullptr dereference (JMP-30954).
- In Make Validation Column, fix UBSAN issue and check arguments better (JMP-30960).
- In Explore Outliers, fix "Randomized SVD Dim" to be numeric property and tolerate nullptrs for RanBase arguments in several zx routines (JMP-30979)
- In the Profiler platform, fix saved script when Prediction Profiler turned off (JMP-30971).
- Laura Castro-Schilo:
- Continue working on JMP-3056: Categorical SEM (with MIIV-2SLS estimator). I pushed a large changelist that enables us to launch the platform with ordered categorical data. The platform uses the MultiCorrelationFitter to estimate a matrix of polychoric/polyserial/Pearson correlations and conducts all analyses off of that. Thus, our estimates are now valid. There’s also a new table of thresholds for the categorical variables. There’s some additional work to do, particularly adjusting the standard errors but it’s rewarding to see the progress in the UI!
- Also helped place an ad in an upcoming quantitative psychology conference program and participated in a workshop with the diversity and inclusion advisory team.
Stat Testing
- Haley Tiblin: Traveled to Cary to visit my coworkers in person. I had a great time seeing everyone and engaging in productive meetings! Finishing up final checks and bug verifications for 19.2.
- Jacob Rhyne:
- Testing Categorical, testing exporting reports using the new Compare Each Cell as Suffix option and testing reports with colorized Comparison Letters
- Testing a shelved build of Space Filling Design with hard-to-change factors
- Working on new tests for Custom Design
- Updating Easy DOE testing functions
- Preparing demo scripts to support Ayumi’s summer projects
- Writing tests for JMP Study Tool, before submitting it to the Marketplace
Stat Documentation
- Michael Crotty: Welcomed Karen to Cary for a few days to catch up with the Stat Doc team and meet with Stat R&D. The Stat Doc team continued adding equations to XML files as we get the files from the Doc team.
System/Host Testing
- Audrey Shull: Investigating strange UT failures with Melanie Drake who ultimately solved the case! Verifications and Jira triage. Finished up testing for some 19.2 CVEs and reviewed tests for third party libraries.
- Justin Kusch: Continued work on manual validations for python virtual environment integration. Started work on testing the use of pyarrow for conversions between pandas dataframes and JMP tables. Working on re-tooling the SAS/CAS integration automation tests to transfer to a new viya4 server and make future server transfers simpler.
- Mandy Chambers: Had a nice week on vacation. Came back today just to catch up on Jira’s and spent the whole day having to clean up my whole mac, remove all traces of JMP to get JMP 20 to install and get the right plist files. I think I know now why some users get very annoyed with JMP when we do change things, etc.
- Hunter Weaver: Investigated a variety of problems and crashes. Opened or updated JIRA items affecting navigation and accessibility with the hard check-in window after meeting with Evan McCorkle. Met with Bryan Fricke sharing a remote session on the Arm64 Windows 11 ThinkPad so he could view the Windows Narrator on a graph in a JMP report. Met with our summer intern, Khushi Shah, to share info about our host testing group.
Web Testing
- Anna Kushner:
- Retesting JMP 19 Late Features to check for missing functionality in JMP Live.
- Testing John’s SP3D Scatterplot fixes for lighting.
- Verified Xan’s Value Label axis fix.
- Reported issues:
- Hui Di:
- Stabilized JSL unit test execution by investigation of a crash condition and stoppage of suite, improving CI signal reliability.
- Validated HTML5 tooltip behavior across localization and rendering paths, including Pie tooltip localization.
- Verified baseline HTML5 static image behavior and identified remaining rule consistency gaps for follow up.
- Validated core Data Points on Profiler functionality while documenting row state and small marker edge cases.
- Identified a cross segment HTML5 tooltip image gap affecting Bar, Mosaic, and Boxplot, reducing late cycle UX risk through early visibility.
- Seema Dutta:
- Accepted and Closed:
- CCB: One sided limits result in qc_staticLimits: 0
- Improve package load time for simple PS scenario
- Warning panel does not expand/display warnings when category has a label
- Correctly sorted IDs don't always match correctly sorted row numbers in Warning Panel
- Investigate and resolve discrepancy between Contour Profiler report and JMP
- Fix discrepancy in Contour Profiler factor value movements compared to JMP
- Created Jiras:
- Warning panel display odd for Dashboards with reports using the same data with different categories
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew Foglia: Finalized adding PDF generation of the results to the JMP NIST testing and installation checking tools. Closing the last of my JMP Clinical 19.2 Jiras. Confirmed a BAT script I had sent to Novo's Citrix deployment team to clean up their users' profile content, which was greatly hampering their JMP and JMP Clinical experience, was deployed and is working to significantly reduced the application launch time.
- Jake Sumner (intern reporting to Russ Wolfinger):
- This week I completed the validation of my graph generation code to go from molecular files to GNN-ready graphs. Next, I started writing and testing my own GNN code to include in the PyTorch plugin for JMP. Specifically, I tested the ChemProp-derived D-MPNN model on the standard ESOL benchmark dataset. I was able to reproduce the literature results using this model. I then wanted to create my own D-MPNN model so I could have more control over the graph structure. I finished that model today and I am comparing it to the ChemProp model. My model is based on PyTorch-Geometric, and it seems to be performing on-par with the ChemProp model. Next week, I will work more on my PyG-based model and start testing atomic + spatial edge graphs!
- Wenjun Bao: I was invited to give a presentation in EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) last week in Parma, Italy. Thanks Valerie and Marco came with me. After the talk, we were given a tour in the EFSA. We were impressed their board meetings room with a huge round table that can handle multiple languages simultaneously.
My EFSA host posted on LinkedIn about our visit.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-glymenaki_ai-chemicalhazards-food-activity-7468690835929309185-MAVK?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAABK8GUBlI7EQU58Sh-LPMSnzrQwXHIlga8&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee Warren: I wrote an article for the product marketing team discussing how we use JMP and JMP Live to create dashboards that help us track our major initiatives. These dashboards give our team and others easy access to the data and allow us to continuously improve our initiatives based on what the data is showing us. If you want to read more, I posted the blog here. (You want to read more :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: ~ Melanie)
- Bryan Fricke:
- Accessibility: Continued coordination with Evan, John, Melisa and/or Hunter on screen reader behavior, keyboard navigation, and workflow gaps, along with planning for how to demonstrate functionality for upcoming EA.
- U-Study, Auth, & infrastructure: Completed GitHub Copilot Product and Legal Overviews training and applied it to U-Study and infrastructure development work. Progress included improvements to study loading and UX flows (unsaved changes handling, confirmation patterns, record insertion, scrollable instructions), along with enhanced session handling (JWT refresh, cookie expiration, reauth flow clarity) and supporting infrastructure for Forms integration and feedback processing.
- Icons / UX modernization and String Review: Continued Fluent-style icon development with new icons for CategoricalIcon as well as ChoiceFitIcon late last Friday. Reviewed new or updated strings for JMP Live.
Technical Support and Engagement
Wendy Murphrey:
Our data did not update today. So below are the just the graphs for case 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.
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 Leslie: Continued work with Product Management in support of streamlining new feature documentation. Atlassian administration and user support across several groups at JMP this week, including HR and DevOps. Working with my intern on his summer project. Weekly technical meetings, including continued requirements gathering for running builds only on source code changes. Oxygen program management work. Continued security work for JMP 19.1.3 and JMP Live 19.5.
- Bob Hickey: worked with Drew on enhancements to the download for installer validation • finished work on script to trigger builds for nights when no changes were made
- Jim Borek: Installed mac OS updates on eleven build and unit test machines • Reported 20+ JIRAs for assertion failures, thread sanitizer, and undefined behavior sanitizer failures from the latest monthly unit test run
- Melanie Drake: Investigated unit test framework (JMPTOOL-2221) – it was a very unusual situation that has been solved now • Created End of Release tasks for 19.1.3 (JMPTOOL-2223) • Worked with Susan Conaghan to get final MIFs and the final PDF for JMP Live 19.5 Release Notes (JMPDOC-2936) • Completed testing and closed out the last Jiras for migrating TestBot to AWS (JMPTOOL-1477) • Investigating and testing various tooling Jiras • Met with DevOps folks to continue to improve running builds and nightly unit tests only when source code changes • Shadowed Shannon Leslie making some Jira updates
Localization
- Sandy Jenkins: Bug fixes for Localization Dashboard • Legacy string report changes to add tmx information for Sample Data and BuiltIns • Testing of populate job for oxygen files • Testing of image diff job for oxygen files
- Trish O’Grady: Happy to announce that Veronica Johnson accepted the Sr Desktop Publishing Specialist position. Her start date is 21July. I’m starting to work onboarding tasks and training plan. Q2 Check-in training completed and prepping for conversations with the team.
- Krzysztof Józefowicz: Working on a report that shows string differences in PortableUI between main and real track. Fixing wrong translations in JMP Live installers. Working on pulling cpp file names for UI strings into a database. Helping with preparing launch of PortableUi 19.2. Testing word count report functionality in localization automation.
- Allison Liang: This week I validated localized files for Big Books and pushed the files to P4; validated and processed vendor invoices; translated 19.2 Sample Data strings for ZH; processed new Marketplace strings and handed off to vendors for translation.
- Howard Chen:
- Amended dita preprocess and popular job based on doc team’s change
- Finished new Dashboard feature to export/push the leveraged translation for book project when it first launched with backend and API calls
- Some bug fixes
- Sohail Lokhandwala: Debugged and implemented batch processing display, added test cases for batching, and began work on results diff display.
Documentation
- Qiana Perry:
- Attended meetings.
- Added citation references in BA.
- Worked with Procurement and Synchro Soft on software request.
- Began file clean up in JSG.
- Performed project planning and coordination.
- Jill Amaya: Fixed citations in the DOE, RSM, and LS, reviewed 19.2 UI strings, peer reviewed JSG conversion and test work, and worked on EG converted files.
- Susan Conaghan:
- Oxygen transition: Finished fixing cross-refs in QPM and adding reference links in QPM & FLM. Starting on callout & conversion cleanup in UG.
- Finished the Release Notes for JMP Live 19.5 & handed off to L10N.
- Devon Powell: Fixed xrefs to citation material in Stats books, handed off seven Stats books to the writers for them to pull LaTeX equations
- Chris Barrett: Fixed citation links in the stat books. Talked with Daylen about his menu repair script. Chatted again with Michael Osinibi about cookie management that’s coming. Devon and I talked about Oxygen issues.
~ Note from Shannon
(I think we can all relate! ~Melanie)
