Welcome to the JMP Development Update for June 26, 2026!
JMP 20 EA4 is now available and was announced to customers earlier in the week. I’m glad to see some feedback already coming in from early adopters! As we head towards our Development and Marketing Feature Freeze date just one short month from now (July 23), it’s important to weigh newly suggested ideas against existing feature work and remember that we will always have another release to consider new additions.
We have seen a few requests made and approved this week for our JMP 19.2 maintenance release. As we wrap up this cycle, please keep in mind that we will be in Code Approval mode for 19.2 until we reach our Code Freeze milestone on July 9. Please review the list of unresolved items with a Planned Version of 19.2 and remove any that you know are no longer in scope for this release. As usual for changes made in maintenance tracks, all proposed fixes must be reviewed by a colleague and fixed/verified in 20.0 first wherever possible.
The JMP 19.1.3 emergency bug fix/security update release is now available in My JMP, and the JMP Live 19.5 feature release is also available. Release notes are listed on the JMP Documentation page (jmp.com/documentation) per usual. You can also open the release notes PDF directly from this link. DevOps has already set up the infrastructure for our upcoming JMP 19.1.4 security release, expected to be in MyJMP next month.
Thanks very much to Shannon Leslie for sharing our June 2026 Atlassian customizations/improvements! New fields were added to Jira this month, in support of Feature Tracking for Product Management. Please see the documentation link above and ask your Product Manager if you have additional questions about these new fields.
Also, Shannon L asked me to mention that All Things Open 2026 registration is now available! Note that the conference format and pricing are slightly different this year. You can add yourself to the attendees list in our Confluence page if you do sign up. Last year we took a JMP group photo and met for lunch at a nearby place since the box lunch lines extended the entire length of the convention hallway. Unfortunately, this year ATO is the same week as Discovery Summit so if you have plans to be in Baltimore, you’ll have to catch it next time.
Finally, SAS and JMP interns are sponsoring a donation drive to help provide local students with the school supplies they need for the next school year. Once collected, these supplies will be distributed by the Boys and Girls Club of Wake and Johnston Counties. You can scan the QR code below to open the Amazon wish list in your app and can even ship essential supplies straight to the organizer. Talk about making it easy to participate!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.2 Code Freeze – 7/9/26
- JMP 19.1.4 Security 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
Statistics
- Laura C-S:
- Spent Monday-Wednesday at the Modern Modeling Methods Conference in NY. Participated in a session providing commentary on Ken Bollen’s new SEM book along with two professors. I also got a chance to showcase the MIIV-2SLS estimator in JMP Pro. The book session had a couple hundred people and –together with the program’s big JMP ad in the back cover—put JMP on the map for many people who had not heard of us. The MIIV-2SLS session in JMP also gave rise to lots of great inquiries and conversations!
- Finished writing a reaction article requested by Katie Stone and Anne Milley. This is planned for the Analytics Advantage blog. Here’s a preview of an image I plan to use for that post:
- John Sall: In Process Screening,
- improve Alarm Graph to identify all active tests (JMP-31161)
- implement Remove command for persistant charts (JMP-29320)
- support "Control Chart Builder" Test 1 preference (JMP-31233)
- fix KSigma logic (JMP-31279).
- Taylor P: Added small-sample exact tests to the Categorical platform.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Completed the new security and ethics training we were assigned. Testing NF in process screening: rework alarm graph. Testing NF in cusum: show x chart, as well as, the cusum reorganization of code. Testing NF in Manage Limits: Load and Save Show Limits to wide table. Investigated beta feedback about distribution - Process Capability. Bug verification. Updating unit tests.
- Mark: I studied Jacob's utility functions for Easy DOE unit tests to prepare as backup support to Ayumi during his leave. I met Ayumi and Jaems to review her progress and answer questions. I addressed EA3 feedback about DOE > Augment Design for Nicole. I am reviewing the draft of claims for Bayesian Optimization IDF. I am reviewing code change for Bayesian Optimization in JMP Pro 19.2. I completed the current ACT-now training courses.
Life Sciences Updates
- Jake: Worked on validating and testing the JMP PyTorch Add-In's new GNN models in the following ways:
- Implemented edge features to augment the spatial edges I added to the graphs the prior week. These edge features allow the spatial edges to carry more information than simply "these two atoms are near one another." Some spatial edge features that worked well include graph topological distance, scalar distance between atoms, and the electrostatic potential of the atoms' partial charges.
- Finished basic testing on the ESOL dataset (~1,100 molecules).
- Moved to testing on the larger QM9 dataset (~130,000 molecules; explicit 3D coordinates).
- Found that spatial edges with added features provide distinct advantages when training the D-MPNN model on certain regression targets (~18% improvement in mean absolute error over the control for predicting dipole moment).
- Currently working on implementing a more "state-of-the-art" GNN model for molecular property prediction: the Equivariant GNN (EGNN).
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Mia:
- Notifications were sent announcing the availability of JMP 20 and JMP Clinical 20 EA4. Thanks for John Sall (Process Screening) and Evan (Accessibility) for submitting EA videos. Highlighted features are Fit Curve improvements, area under the curve in Graph Builder, accessibility improvements, and process screening enhancements.
- Facilitated an internal focus group for Zach White and Laura Lancaster on the prototype MSA Dashboard. Thanks for all who participated!
- Participated in a usability study for Process Screening triage in JMP Live.
- Bryan F:
- Icons
- Continued delivery and refinement of Fluent-aligned icons (Graph Builder, DOE, Formula Editor).
- Accessibility
- Coordinated with developers and Curt Hinirichs regarding outreach to academic institutions regarding structured walkthroughs to gather feedback.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Though vacation season is upon us, we remain focused on supporting our customers and advancing projects to improve efficiencies in our case management system.
- 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
- Melanie: Investigating and testing UT stream updates • Investigating and planning work for the Telemetry add-in (thanks Audrey and Evan McCorkle for your help!) • Validating and closing last 19.1.4 branching tasks and 19.1.3 end of release tasks • Attended JEJUG – Kaylee did a great job demoing a JMP to JMP Live workflow (I loved the dashboard with a shared LDF!), and Xan showed some fun data in Graph Builder (analyzing MFA codes, and finding an inflection point OMG!).
- Shannon L: Security work for JMP 19.1.4 and JMP Live 19.5.1 is underway. Tracking Approval Requests for 19.2. Working with my intern Drew Hunter on his summer project. Atlassian administration and user support across several groups at JMP this week, including Salesforce and Product Management. Oxygen program management work. Marketplace monetization meetings. Weekly technical meetings.
- Shannon C: Attended Coffee chat with John Powell and JMP interns to answer questions about career path, past and current roles, and work-life balance. Talked to JMP DevOps intern Drew Hunter about the JMP software development life cycle (SDLC), EA program, different types of testing groups at JMP, and our bug/crash reporting processes. Participated in JMP Live Process Screening usability test (thanks, Seema Dutta!). Discussions on releases with PM and others. Q2 checkins and goal review/updates with various team members.
- Jim:
- OS upgrades and set up for two mac minis for Golden Gate (mac OS 27.0.0) unit test runs (one each for JMP 19.2 and 20.0)
- Applied Windows updates to DailyUT AMIs (JMPTOOL-2256)
- Minor script changes for mac OS unit test runs
Localization
- Krzysztof: Reviewing Books converted to Oxygen from the localization point of view. Adjusting memoQ filter and segmentation rules to maximize the re-use of mif based translation memories. Fixed an issue with the pseudo-localization process for JMP. Started the maintenance of finished 19.0 Books translation memories. Preparing for the upgrade of memoQ server next week.
- Allison: Validated localized JMP Documentation pdfs and handed them off to QA; translated the 19.1.3 Release Notes for ZH; handed off validated localized JMP Documentation pdfs and 19.1.3 Release Notes to Web team; validated and processed invoices; completed a couple of PM courses in PLATO.
- Howard:
- Worked on adding *.dita file to dita pre-process
- Worked on populate job for cards
- Attended GitHub copilot training
Documentation
- Daylen:
- Menucascade conversion script (Python): Converts FrameMaker-style menu paths in our XML into DITA / elements. Latest run: 52 files scanned, 1,574 menu paths converted, 0 failures. Dry-run by default, full logging, Perforce-safe. Reviewed with Chris Barrett and iterated on his feedback (including a singleton-tag spacing fix).
- XML element counter script: Scans our XML books and reports element usage against the DITA reference list. Latest run against BookMasterXML:
- 1,826 files scanned, 1,821 parsed cleanly (~99.7%)
- 271,066 total element instances across 64 unique elements
- 550 DITA reference elements unused in our content — direct hide candidates for Oxygen
- 4 used elements not in the DITA reference (code, GRAPHIC, FOOTNOTE, TITLE) flagged for review
- Chris B: Worked on help transformation; got 2 truncated books to build with left-nav. Reviewed and fixed a few callout images. Good chat with Devon about the way forward on our XML issues. Testing Daylen’s script output -- so far looks good. Met with JMP web team about The Future.
- Qiana:
- Worked on the following callout image Jiras: JMPDOC-3287, JMPDOC-3288, JMPDOC-3289, JMPDOC-3291, JMPDOC-3292, JMPDOC-3300, JMPDOC-3316, JMPDOC-3331.
- Started cross-reference cleanup in the JSG.
- Susan C: Doing the page-by-page review of the UG book. Attended SnagIt/Camtasia webinar.
- Jill: Page comparison of UG converted chapters, creating development goals, and reviewing/updating converted text inset files.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Eric:
- Tested and closed JMP-30500 Create an option in Databricks Connector to calculate the row count for a table.
- Tested and closed JMP-28036 Users should be able to preview a join with OracldDB.
- Tested and closed JMP-30228 Users should be able to preview a join with Databricks
- Tested and closed JMP-30227 Using the SQL Console, users should be able to input multiple SQL statements.
- Tested and closed JMP-28037 Users should be able to preview a query builder query with OracleDB
- Tested and closed JMP-30095 Implement OAuth2 authentication for Databricks
- Tested and closed JMP-29990 Support Programmatic Access Tokens in Snowflake; published Snowflake table to JMP Live and verified data refresh via script.
- Investigating JMP Crash Report Case # 00325112 Opening a connection to postgres database
- Investigating test failures in testODBCPromise JSL test on Mac.
- Mandy: Worked on some of the JIRA’s I needed to close out, verify and add tests for. Ran Mimic tests on Windows and Mac and discovered some display issues and Evan McCorkle jumped in and helped rewrite some of the functions and ways mimic works to make it better and work across different machines - shout out to Evan - You Rock! We really appreciate this help so testing can continue to improve. Working on cleaning up some workflows and tests and tables and getting ready to move into Part-time status next week. Completed ACT compliance training.
- Hunter: Investigated and responded to three JMP 20 EA cases this week. Working on the last few items on my JMP 19.2 verification list. Applied Golden Gate Dev. Beta 2 on the host testing Mac MDA692 in the lab and ran a few tests. Tested cases for a feature that provides a special prompt when a required hard check-in occurs at launch. Reviewed more localized documentation.
- Melisa: Most of my time this week was spent verifying the 16 tabulate fixes that were pushed to 19.2 and updating our test coverage in this area. Multiple jsl and image tests were added to 19.2 and 20 and 4 new mimic tests were added to 20.
- Nick H: Pushed dashboard changes for the new Unit Test Runs page to prod. Worked on unit tests for the find/replace feature in Workflow Builder and a few small feature verifications for JMP 20.
- Audrey: Starting Q2 check-ins, talking with interns about end-of-summer demos, I18N testing, and general verifications.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh:
- Driving report workflow testing and providing design feedback across key areas (review rules, usability gaps, comment handling, compliance behavior)
- Investigating and helping resolve JMP Live issues, including scheduled refresh failures, workflow move issues, and data handling bugs
- Supporting security validation by distributing Jiras and guiding test coverage across environments
- Seema: Had several meetings with folks who had volunteered to participate in Process Screening Usability studies for JMP Live. Got some great feedback and met with Aurora and Praveena to discuss all of our findings. Really cool to see what people did and what they thought about the feature.
- Accepted and Closed:
- Display Log Message for Unsupported Overlaid Interaction Option
- PS: Horizontal scroll bar not always displayed when selecting warnings when Warnings panel is open
- Cannot vertically scroll in Warnings panel
- Several security Jiras
- Created Jiras:
- Warning panel does not expand/display warnings when category or Process Variable has special char: &
- Part Summary tab shows Control Chart graph after random number of clicks
- Bad escaped character error in warnings JSON when using special character \
- Syntax error for warnings JSON in console log for category with special character "
- Multi-select on Process Screening table selects unexpected rows with non-default column selection
- RMB Context menu options always grayed out for Process Screening control charts
- Triage assignment notification (emails, UI) not getting sent out reliably
- Control Chart legend has odd formatting when JMP Live language is set to certain languages
- In Progress:
- Warning summary section needs more fields to accommodate dynamic marker fetching
- Hui:
- Verified 5 Process Screening fixes, improving JSON parsing stability and confirming progress while exposing remaining edge-case gaps.
- Identified systemic risks in special character handling across Process Screening, impacting chart rendering, HTML5 export, and JMP Live publishing (JMPHTML-15642, WEBJMP-12677); requires prioritization.
- Documented concrete failure scenarios for special character handling, providing clear boundaries and actionable cases for development fixes.
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.5.1 – 1 diff (tooltips needing coordinate update), 19.6 – 1 diff (tooltips needing coordinate update), 20.0 – 7 diffs total, 1 diff (tooltips needing coordinate update), 6 diffs (awaiting image benchmark and code updates in request mode). Caught up from being on vacation. Made needed updates for failures in existing process screening testcases. Working on process screening testcase enhancements using Steve’s new backend updates.
Core
- Dan S: ListBoxBox supports the new-in-20 Border Radius property, and a new Clip property is added to control clipping of the child content for any box. Outline titles also have a new property Title Border Radius for similar control of the title rect corners. Additional accessibility work in the graph "Customize" dialog, converting some custom boxes to standard buttons/menus. Working on general focus navigation for more standardized control of keyboard actions.
- Evan: Improvements for Mimic test framework. Accessibility improvements for text labels. Working on issues of focus moving unnecessarily. Working on new release of JMP Telemetry Explorer Add-In.
- Xan: More segs supporting Make into Data Table for data extraction, include TextSeg and BarSeg. JEJUG presentation.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Continued work on a new variables acceptance sampling explorer and helped Bill out with some work on converting the one sample equivalence power explorer.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul N:
- Security updates:
- JMP 19.1.4, 19.2 updated to Python 3.13.14
- JMP 20 updated to Python 3.14.6
- libcurl updated to 8.21.0
- Working with Justin Kusch and Evan Carr to try and debug a persistent crash in 19.2 relating to pandas deprecation of features.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Worked on Scatterplot 3D Connect Points feature support in HTML, specifically rewriting proof of concept code and adding support for jittering and local data filter (JMPHTML-15646).
- Completed two SAS trainings.
- Added goals and updated development plan in PLATO.
- Investigated HTML RectSegment’s dependence on a field that shouldn’t be needed when rendering Line of Fit confidence bands in support of a change Xan is working on.
- Discussed Platform Presets for potential use in JMP Live – Thanks to Evan for presenting and answering several questions.
- Participated in a coffee chat with Shannon Conners and JMP Interns.
- Attended JEJUG meeting.
- Mike Stickles: Continued work on JMPHTML-15608 (Implement Constellation Plot in Interactive HTML). Currently the main graph (vertices, edges, labels, including colors and marker/line styles) is working; now working on connecting it to the Dendrogram so selections are reflected in each.
- Arnav:
- Fixed several bugs (display and bounding behaviors) with the crosshair tool in JMP HTML
- Learned how Perforce, Swarm, and the build and CI process works for JMP HTML
- Michael Senoyuit: Worked on LDF updates/enhancements and expanding JmpLive Graphlets support to MCC.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Bug hunting and Jira filing. Performance improvements for Process Screening triage. Informal usability testing for Process Screening triage. Started work on database package feature deprecation.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Dan Valente for sharing this hilarious and timely comic! Hope you all have a very relaxing weekend!
