Note from Trish: Developers, please triage any of your strings that are “stuck” in Stringbot for 20. Our first handoff of strings for V20 will be in August. We would like to get as many strings as possible included in handoff #1. Thank you!
19.1.4: Final Image Candidates 7/12/26 • 19.1.5: Security Freeze • 19.2: Security Freeze 8/6/26 • 20.0: open in main; Feature Freeze and EA5 Freeze 7/23/26
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 10, 2026!
It’s been a busy week, with 19.1.4 Security Freeze and 19.2 Code Freeze both occurring at the end of the day yesterday. Please check this report of items remaining with a Planned Version of 19.2 to triage any remaining items you may own that did not make this release.
Now that we have reached the end of 19.2 Approval Mode, if a critical showstopper bug arises, make sure that the Jira priority is set to Critical and discuss the problem in depth with your manager. If your manager agrees that it simply can’t wait for our next emergency bug fix release (19.2.3), they should raise it at the Ops meeting on Wednesday for further evaluation and discussion by managers.
Our standard practice is that any issue being considered for emergency integration must be fixed and tested in 20 (where equivalent code exists) and go through code review prior to being considered. Emergency fixes also require a champion from Product Management, User Enablement or Tech Support as well as approval by the appropriate testing manager and Travis LaPolla, our security manager. Although we expect cases like this to be rare, each emergency bug fix will be evaluated carefully and individually to ensure that making a change does not jeopardize existing release timelines aimed at delivering planned fixes for other issues.
A reminder that Thursday July 23 is Feature Freeze and Marketing Feature Freeze for 20. EA5 will be also built to match the nightly build on that day. Development should have a calendar item with a reminder to update feature pages by 9 am on Monday July 27 and send videos to Mia Stephens by close of business on Tuesday July 28. (If this reminder is not on your calendar, please reach out to Melanie Drake so she can resend it to you.) Speaking of the EA, thanks very much to product manager Sarah Sylvestre for sharing this blog on EA2 and EA3 participation!
Thanks very much to JMP Life Sciences developer Luciano Silva for presenting at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! Luciano shared the details about new JMP Pro features coming in 20 for full sib family haplotype (FSFHap) imputation, requested by customers at the USDA. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. And if you’re local, be sure to say hi to Luciano next week when he visits us from Brazil!
FYI that statistics developer Elyse Borgert organized a research-focused talk in the Thursday dev slot next week titled Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS) to be presented by Professor JS Marron from UNC Chapel Hill – please let her know if you would like to be added to the invite to attend this talk!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19.1.4 Final Image Candidates – 7/12/26
- JMP 19.2 Security Freeze – 9/3/26
- 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
- Valerie: The China Sales and Marketing team successfully hosted the China HLS Customer JMP Inspire Webinar on July 2. Unlike traditional knowledge-sharing sessions, this webinar featured a new, highly targeted format: an industry-specific, invitation-only product showcase designed to demonstrate JMP, JMP Pro and JMP Clinical value directly to healthcare and life sciences customers. The event delivered strong engagement, attracting 109 attendees from 229 registrants, representing an attendance rate of 48%. Notably, approximately two-thirds of all registrants were new leads, highlighting the webinar's effectiveness in expanding our reach and generating new customer interest.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- While many people are enjoying some well-deserved time away, the Support teams remain focused on supporting customers and ensuring they have a great experience with our software.
- 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
- Jim:
- Worked with Bob Hickey to resolve a process issue for Template.html for JMP 19 security release builds
- Working with Paul Nelson towards getting a Python module install script to work in batch mode on unit test machines
- Assisting John Powell in setting up a new mac OS HTML5 build machine
- Creating Perforce workspace clients and branch specifications in preparation for JMP 19.1.5 branching early next week
- From the July 2026 Windows JMP 20 Debug, JMP 20 ASAN and JMP 20 TSAN/UBSAN unit test runs:
- Reported 40 new JIRAs
- Verified 11 fixed JIRAs
- Nick:
- Fixed JMP 19.1.4 Mac Analysis builds to properly include the analysis report as a Jenkins artifact (JMPTOOL-2267)
- Moved the AWS Perforce Proxy to a new instance, as the hardware was having issues and refusing to cooperate with even shutdown requests. (JMPTOOL-2273)
- Updated BitBucket credentials and made new API token specifically for the JMP Snyk SBOM Scanner project after a change made by Atlassian this week. (JMPTOOL-2274)
- Shannon L: Wrapping up security work for JMP 19.1.4 and JMP Live 19.5.1, including improvements for tracking and reporting. Tracking and investigations of JMP usage of VMware at SAS on vCenters which are end-of-life in 2026/27. Documentation and testing underway for a change to Jira for several of our R&D Jira development projects, to make Fix Version required - more on that soon. Weekly technical meetings, including the monthly Atlassian admin meeting. Oxygen program management work.
- Myron:
- Salesforce security check for crash API
- JMPTOOL-1626 – started cleaning old unit test files
- fixed Jenkins agent issues on jmptool (handshake errors, etc.)
- JMPTOOL-2268 – add 19.1 telemetry view (and eventually 19.2)
- Bob:
- Prep installer code for EA 5
- Work with Jim Borek on strategy to resolve template.html issue (JMPTOOL-2302)
- Clean up scripts to avoid problems with differing release numbers of JMP and JMP LIVE.
- Shannon C: Various discussions on late-breaking 19.1.4 and 19.2 fixes and some upcoming process changes. Reviewed several internally reported 20 crashes and recent 19.1.3 crashes; updated cases and issues where needed with tracks and comments. Met with team members 1:1 to discuss their ongoing projects, ran several team meetings and attended Atlassian admin group meeting to hear about upcoming changes. Helped out with a few component changes.
Localization
- Krzysztof: Prepared a test project for our vendors using the new online workflow and memoQweb. Worked on TMs maintenance for the 19.0 Books. Provided feedback to the Documentation team on issues in the converted Oxygen files that should be fixed before handoff to localization. Implemented several updates to the memoQ filter for Oxygen to improve retranslation from mif TMs.
- Allison: Processed the final 19.2 Portable UI translations and pushed to P4; communicated with vendors about invoicing and upcoming quotes; communicated with vendors regarding moving translation process to memoQWeb starting in V20 and worked with Krzysztof and Trish on setting up a test project; validated invoices and submitted for payment.
- Trish: Reviewing over V20 strings in preparation for handoff 1. Final checks for 19.2. Discussions regarding localization workflow for V20.
- Sohail: Deployed ChatUI interface on jmptrans, implemented chat history, logging, and token consumption restrictions.
- Sandy: Testing New Populate Job for Oxygen files. Developing new Image Diff file validation for Oxygen files.
Documentation
- Susan C:
- Created JMP Live 19.5 Japanese help. Pushed help live & got peer reviewed. Sent to test.
- Creating other JMP Live localized help.
- Created the 19.1.4 RNs and updated the book & PDF. Jill has edited.
- Reviewed Allison’s JMP Live improvement suggestions.
- Qiana:
- Attended meetings.
- Performed a page-by-page comparison of 2 chapters in the JSG.
- Did project planning and coordination.
- Jill: Continued page-by-page comparison of JSG for migration, peer reviewed Japanese help files, and edited Release Notes for 19.1.4.
- Chris: Finished page-by-page review of DJ. Built help with almost all books. Styling output.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: Fire drills for 19.1.4 and 19.2 issues that came up at the last minute! Fortunately they seem to be all taken care of now. Talking with Ryan Clare about testing a JMP for Stats mobile app. Preparing for 19.1.4 testing next week. A few verifications. Testing Jira changes in our sandbox instance. Getting ready for Brad Norris to start on my team next week - welcome Brad!
- Nick H: Worked on a new feature of the Unit Test GUI that will allow users to automatically populate the test list at the bottom of the window with their currently failing tests in the most recent nightly run. The feature works by querying the database for the user’s most recent failing tests, filtering by the OS you are running the GUI on. Hopefully this will help testers (me) check their nightly failures more often! I also worked on 20 beta feedback and other smaller verifications.
- Eric Horton:
- JMP-31392 http request failure, likely related to AspenTech Auth Method NTLM; Verified connection to the EC2 instance of AspenTech was fixed at JMP 19.1.4 and 19.2. Also verified a clean, full run of the /DataTable/ImportExport unit tests at both versions. Identified a benchmark that needed to be updated in /DataTable/ImportExport/testHTTP.jsl which eliminated an assertion failure.
- JMP-30799 Auto Tag Rules: Allow this to prompt when opening a database type file; Assisted Mandy with testing the “apply auto tagging rules” prompting when opening tables from Databricks, SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL on Windows and Databricks, PostgreSQL, OracleDB and SQL Server on Mac.
- Investigating a JMP crash report. Following up with the internal user.
- Hunter: Completed verification of the last items from my JMP 19.2 list. Installed, authorized (both online and air-gapped), and ran tests with the latest builds of each JMP 19.1.4 product on Mac and Windows to look for any issues prior to final installer testing next week. Completed the two security training courses. Investigated two JMP 19 EA 4 cases and some other reported problems.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh:
- Completed JMP Live 19.5.1 release validation and coordinated readiness activities for upcoming installer testing.
- Prepared for JMP Pro for Live 19.1.4 installer testing, including environment and build validation.
- Verified and provided feedback on the new JMP Live workflow functionality, focusing on review, approval, promotion, permissions, and compliance behavior.
- Validated security remediations and third-party package updates for JMP Live 19.5.1, 19.6.0, and 20.0 releases.
- Performed OIDC and SAML authentication testing, troubleshooting configuration issues and validating fixes.
- Executed regression testing across JMP Live to validate recent feature additions and release candidates.
- Investigated and verified fixes for workflow, authentication, report regeneration, and data handling defects.
- Improved Jira organization and testing workflows for Process Screening triage and validation efforts.
- Identified opportunities to expand automation coverage following a near defect escape in the JMP Live Data Table Editor.
- Seema:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Warning summary section needs more fields to accommodate dynamic marker fetching
- JMP Live server crash publishing huge number of warnings
- Reload with warnings panel open empties out the warnings panel
- Clicking Warning in Process Screening table should open Warnings panel
- Select in Warnings Panel > should select row in Process Screening table
- Warnings panel default # IDs displayed not consistent with default # rows displayed
- qc_where value doesn't include the where clause indicating a subset
- Nonnegative Continuous PS report JSON has spurious "qc_WarningsTested":[] summary object
- CCW filter not working as expected
- No Warnings panel or badge for PS reports using By levels
- Errors and unexpected behavior creating folder during Move Post
- addCredential and updateCredential are dead in GraphQL spec
- Warning panel does not expand/display warnings when category or Process Variable has special char: &
- Created Jiras:
- Warning badge/ badge numbers are not updated when Warnings removed from data table unless report is refreshed
- Multi-select on Warnings in chart not working for Process Screening
- Filtering on Warnings Panel doesn't filter anything
- No Warnings panel or badge for PS reports using By levels
- Multi-select for triaging Process Screening behaves oddly after a while
- Error when resizing Control Chart in a Process Screening report
- Filtering selections not preserved if filter options closed and re-opened
- All Warnings displayed when one filter out of many is removed
- Badges in warning panel are not updated after a data change until report is manually refreshed
- Dependent data load appears stuck when it's not when there are lots of dependents
- Error in webjmp when clearing more than one notification
- Charts get appended to report as rows selected in PS table when special characters used
- Selecting Warning from Warning Panel does not select associated row in PS table when grouping variable or process variable has special characters
- Warnings Panel is displayed when Contour Profiler sliders are moved
- Some frames are blank for Contour Profiler (JMP vs JMP Live)
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.5.1 – 1 diff (control chart testcase update needed), 19.6 – 1 diff (control chart testcase update needed), 20.0 – 5 diffs total, 1 diff (control chart testcase update needed), 4 diffs (process screening image benchmarks diff with added scrollbar). Automation for Process Screening needs to update with the added change to expand the warning panel when a row is selected from the summary table. Steve is working on a backend change needed for this functionality and I will update the test cases. I continue to work on new test coverage for process screening.
- Anna:
- Added new tests to imageTest framework.
- Tested JMP Live Data Viewer fixes.
- Verified Zoom | Pan for Contour in JMP Live.
- Verified John’s fixes for ScatterPlot 3D.
- Rechecked LDF Inverse functionality in JMP Live to confirm that issues only occur w/interactive selection of control.
Core
- Dan S: Tab Focus navigation is updated to centralize more behaviors, and arrow-key navigation is currently being updated. SceneBox is supported for screen readers, and focus support allows access to the context menu via keyboard. Lots of updates for initialization and behavior of color/marker/linestyle properties in alt-click dialogs and context menus. Worked with Bryan Fricke to update the styling of Outline titles using rounded corners.
- Dave B:
- Fixed ubsan and tsan issues found in the unit tests
- Fixed a mac only MFI crash
- Investigated a tooltip bug Ernest noticed
- Recreated a customer reported crash saving as interactive html
- Ernest: Added support for data table “metadata”. Starting talks now on how to convert some of our usage of table variables to use metadata instead.
- Xan: Marked Make into Data Table as ready for EA5 after adding support for TopSeg and CustomStreamSeg. Exploring Grubbs outliers for box plot.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Working on providing scripting support for all of the converted sample size explorers. Hoping to finish it up today!
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl:
- Host changes to avoid trying to draw a window (show) while we are still in the process of measuring that window.
- Accessibility work: added checks for deleted display boxes in incoming OS client calls to avoid possible crashes. Still investigating and baffled why triggering a tooltip shifts screen reader focus away from the focused display box. Opened Jira for a11y work needed on MatrixDisplay.
- Icons: More icon updates. This work revealed a mismatch between the JMP light/dark theme icons and the preferred HTML theme when exporting HTML. Prototyping changes related to using a fluent-style red triangle popup icon; more work needed.
- Crash and UT Assert investigations.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Removed RectSegment's need for Line Of Fit to use a variable named mColorG requested by Xan
- Added support for Scatterplot 3D Connect Points (JMPHTML-15646, JMPHTML-15660)
- Fixed an issue with Unicode character marker shapes in Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-15653)
- Fixed issues with points in Scatterplot 3D rendered too dark or too bright (JMPHTML-15601)
- Working on supporting Normal Contour Ellipsoids in Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-15664)
- Working with Jim Borek and Nick Ruva to set up a new Mac CI build machine (JMPTOOL-2303)
- Paul Spychala: Continued work adding support for Surface Plots to interactive HTML and JMPLive (JMPHTML-15556). At this point we are adding support for Surface Plots in embedded profilers, adding support for modifying categorical values in Surface Plots, and adding telemetry and logging. I also worked on further polish on Contour Profilers in interactive HTML and JMPLive (JMPHTML-13612), in particular fixing some contours that twist and adding support for filled contours.
- Arnav:
- Updated crosshair styling to be consistent with the desktop crosshair
- Fixed edges of the crosshair being cut off
- Add support for formatting categorical labels in the crosshair (i.e. for bar charts)
- Fixed the crosshair not being bound from above when multiple graphs were present
- Fixed the crosshair label values not being bound within the range of the graph
- Created a draft of my intern expo presentation board
- Mike Stickles: Checked in the first two phases of implementation of JMPHTML-15608 (Implement Constellation Plot in Interactive HTML), covering the static aspects of drawing the node graph including rendering text at arbitrary angles. Now working on implementing selection of vertices and edges and linking selections to the dendrogram.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Helped out a bit with GitKraken renewal process. Did a lot of third party package updates. Created a daily refreshing JMP Live table to track third party package update opportunities. Created a few Confluence articles. Participated in iteration retrospective and planning. Did a few minor bug fixes. Started work on Custom Triage Status feature.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Extending the multi-correlation fitter class to account for uncertainty in mean and variance estimates of continuous variables. Wrote a JSL prototype for computing standard errors for the categorical MIIV-2SLS (Cat-MIIV) estimator in SEM. Fixed issues with the univariate stats report in Cat-MIIV (hid covariance matrix and added names to asymptotic covariance of estimates matrix). Met with Haley to discuss progress with Cat-MIIV, met with D&I action team to finalize vision and purpose statements, met with Meichen to finalize data example for Discovery. Writing a manuscript highlighting our SEM MIIV-2SLS functionality in mediation models.
- Elizabeth: Wrapping up work on the less restrictive non-proportional odds model for Ordinal data (JMP-27695). Showed it to Walt Stroup on Wednesday, and he’s excited by it, as currently the only method for fitting this model is with challenging PROC NLMIXED code. To his knowledge, we’ll be the only software with an “out of the box” solution for this model.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Tested capability index plot labeling changes in Process Capability. In Process Screening, tested recent zone changes, Ksigma changes, Custom Test 1 changes, and alarm graph changes. In CUSUM, tested changes to the default sigma in the control panel as well as the redesign of the platform. Updated unit tests due to recent changes in Process Screening, Process Capability, and CUSUM. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Jake:
- Created a comprehensive testing report for six different GNN models implemented in the JMP PyTorch Add-In tested on either the full QM9 dataset (~130,000 molecules total) or a subset of 5000 molecules.
- Made many changes to the PyTorch Add-In to improve the user experience. Some of the changes were cosmetic to the GUI, but most were in the Python code’s logic.
- Tested each model specifically in the JMP GUI with set seeds to ensure the output agreed with my pure Python testing.
- Fixed more than a few bugs in the Add-In code logic
- Identified several other “user experience” additions that I am trying to incorporate into the Add-In
- Importantly, I won the JMP Shuffleboard Summer Tournament, becoming the first graduate intern in at least a year to win the title
- Drew: Working on JMP Clinical 20 features for clinical study report creation and comparing results of reports side-by-side. Also researching solutions for JMP Clinical and DataBricks integrations as Novo Nordisk (and other customers) are using that for their clinical trials data.
- Richard: Working on a Clinical report to summarize Questionnaire data.
Note from Shannon
The graphic below may have been created for 2022 but it still rings true in July of 2026…I’d take any fall weather at this point, even if it proves to be false! Hope everyone has a great weekend and stays cool…
