19.1.5: Security Freeze 8/6/26 • 19.2: Security Freeze 9/3/26 • 20.0: open in main; EA6 Code Freeze 8/27/26; Code Freeze 1/7/27
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 24, 2026!
We released JMP 19.1.4 on Tuesday – thanks to everyone who worked on this security-only release! We’ll have one more security-only release (19.1.5) in August prior to releasing JMP 19.2 in September with the latest round of bug fixes and security updates.
We have now reached our Feature Freeze and Marketing Feature Freeze milestones for JMP 2027 version 20.0. Please note: if you are still working on any Story or Epic item in Jira with a Planned Version of 20.0 that is not yet marked Test-Ready, please add it to the Late Features page for 20 here. The page has a template where you can assess impact to downstream teams. Code for 20 EA5 is also frozen. Please update your feature pages by 9 am on Monday, July 27! Once EA5 installers have been fully vetted by QA, they will be released in MyJMP and announced to EA program members.
FYI that Qiana Perry has updated the How to create new sample data page in Confluence to include information about submitting AI-generated sample data. For that case, JMP Legal requests that we document answers to several additional questions. As Qiana mentioned last week, the deadline to submit new or updated sample data for version 20 is Thursday, September 17.
Thank you to our first group of students who presented their summer work on Thursday! Dhruv Menon showed the Admin Action Portal, Daylen Hicks shared the XML Book Analyzer tools he created to detect errors and inconsistencies in the doc team’s converted XML files, and Yen-Chen Liu presented her work on motif discovery for order of addition experiments. You can find presentation materials on the 2026 JMP intern presentation schedule in Confluence along with a list of topics for the next 4 sessions to be held in the coming weeks.
Unfortunately, although I did start and stop a recording for the session, Microsoft had a major networking outage during that hour and neither the recording nor the other meeting artifacts were captured. During that timeframe, others reported problems with screenshots not showing up in Teams and general slowness with Microsoft 365 and other MS services.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- 20 EA6 Code Freeze – 8/27/26
- JMP 19.2 Security Freeze – 9/3/26
- JMP 19.1.5 Security Freeze – 8/6/26
- JMP 20 Code Freeze – 1/7/27
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates and JMP 20 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Dave B:
- Fixed a bug that caused host controls to show above outline titles
- Fixed a bug that caused a graphics script error message to be missing or clipped
- Reviewed alignment grid functionality ahead of possible refactoring
- Xan: One last feature: radar charts for EA5. Updated Graph Builder element icon bar spacing and highlighting. WScale code cleanup.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Finished an update to improve how use conditions are displayed in Fit Life by X. Only have some minor late features to do now.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Accessibility: Added a peer for PartitionBox so that new windows get announced again. Fixed a bug when searching for a parent peer - ancestors() is not the inverse of boxChildAll; use boxParentAll instead. Added a hidden preference to disable creating host accessibility peers in case the work causes instability. Addressed issues in the Home Window reported by Accessibility Insights tool. Icons: Took icon updates. Reworked host code which creates the hierarchy icons on-the-fly to have more sizes for better high DPI support. Fielded various Visual Studio questions. Crash investigations.
- Daniel Powell: Completed an update to the powerpoint export that will allow users to merge multiple reports/journals into a single PPTX file! I'm in progress on updates to the JMP web browser's overall accessibility which will hopefully be done soon!
- Paul:
- Worked on my Discovery presentation for Baltimore.
- Researched and submitted an abstract for Discovery Berlin
- Worked with Jim to get the daily process again installing Python modules after the 3.14 Python change.
- Worked on clearing some existing JIRA’s and stringbot changes.
- Will:
- Various bug fixes for the Data Connector Export Dialog.
- User Interface updates for the Data Connector Editor, including removing the modality of the window, and adding a filter.
- I’ve also been working on my SharePoint Data Connector presentation for Discovery Baltimore.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Committed work to support Normal Contour Ellipsoids in Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-15664).
- Interactive HTML developers had two-days of in person team building activities with Mike Stickles in town.
- Experimented with virtual reality headset detection and VR rendering of Interactive HTML output.
- Started looking at support for Scatterplot 3D’s Nonpar Density Contours (JMPHTML-15703).
- Triaged an issue with Scatterplot 3D rendering points bigger in JMP Live than in JMP that ended up being expected behavior when choosing to use a data table in JMP Live with different selections than the table in JMP (JMPHTML-15701).
- Reported how not being able to see selections in JMP Live’s Data Table Viewer makes it difficult to discover why differences seen when publishing as in JMPHTML-15701 are expected (WEBJMP-11299).
- Helped test a planned change to Jira configuration that will require setting Fixed Versions when transitioning items between certain states.
- Mike Stickles:
- Continued work on Constellation Plot (JMPHTML-15608). Now successfully exporting vertex “row states” (which are separate from regular row states), allowing export of selection and hidden states. Trying to implement dynamic selection.
- Participated in Interactive HTML teambuilding activities Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Completed both ACT-NOW training modules.
- Arnav:
- Worked with Praveena to set up the crosshair tool on JMP Live
- Added a tooltip to the crosshair select button
- Fixed a bug with the crosshair not rendering correctly until the mouse was moved
- Began working on my JMP Intern Presentation
- Teambuilding with the rest of the Interactive HTML team on Tuesday and Wednesday
- Paul Spychala: We had some team building activities this week with our team. Outside of that we added support for the Gaussian Process profilers [JMPHTML-15679]. This includes the regular profilers, contour profilers, and surface profilers. Lastly I worked on making Jenkins HTML tests more robust and less likely to hang.
- Praveena:
JMP Live
- Aurora: Continued work on Custom Triage Status feature.
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In the Analyze menu, Quality and Process submenu, move Control Chart to first, and Process Screening under Control Chart Builder (JMP-28180).
- In Fit Least Squares, support nested effects for saving formula column for prediction std error (JMP-31639).
- In Profiler Simulator, fix a near-neighbor-culled-random space-filling matrix, which was mistakenly transposed, pending for a late 19.2 fix (JMP-31629).
- Taylor: I have only one step left in changing the Contingency platform over to the AlignmentGrid display object. I also found a couple of bugs in Multiple Correspondence and was able to fix them the next day.
Stat Documentation
- Michael Crotty: Continuing to work on XML cleanup of the converted files for stat documentation. Preparing for JSM, including stepping into the role of section chair for SPES a few months earlier than expected due to the previous chair resigning.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Completing final changes to the JMP extension to add confidence interval of the coefficient of variation requested by Laura L before submitting it to JMP Marketplace. Discussing limitations of extensions because of lack of support from platform for redo, recalc, and save script with Jules and Dan S. Worked on debugging failing unit tests for Bayes Opt. Discussing ways to identify test machines that did not produce such failures with Audrey. Considering UX/UI changes, identified by John, with Ryan and Joseph. Assisting Ayumi with her intern project and upcoming presentation with the team.
- Zach: I have had a successful 2nd round of feedback for the MSA dashboard add-in that I have been working on as my intern project. Therefore, the add-in is nearing completion after I fix some final issues and search for any bugs.
- Tonya: Started testing the new multivariate capability analysis. Continued testing of CUSUM and Process Screening. Attended a feedback session on the MSA Dashboard.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: With Dan Schikore's assistance, implemented JMPCLINICAL-5877: Move JMP Clinical Stylization into JMP Clinical Theme which lets the JMP Clinical theme inherit from and extend the JMP Live theme for the styling of JMP Clinical. Practically, all styling code has now been removed from the JSL so we can take full advantage of the JSS infrastructure. Implemented changes to JMPClinical unit testing to copy installers directly from jmpsrv01 (as opposed to using OneDrive) for better reliability and portability across users and machines. Closed out or deferred JMP Clinical feature Jiras. Working through bug Jiras.
- Jake:
- I incorporated two new state of the art GNN models into the PyTorch add-in (Cormorant and DimeNet++)
- I included a way to estimate the node and edge feature importance for the GNN models to aid in model interpretability
- I worked with Luciano to include the feature importance in the PyTorch GUI model report
- I made my slide show for next week’s intern presentation
- I got access to a JMP linux node, and I am conducting a full testing suite for all GNN models incorporated in the add-in to compare them to published results
- Created a basic tutorial for internal and external users of the PyTorch add-in
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Mia: Working with Shannon Leslie on “Release Year Naming”, identifying things in the product and installers that might need to change with the release of JMP 2027 v20.0.0 in March. To learn more about this change, stay tuned for an InsideJMP article early next week.
- Bryan Fricke:
- Accessibility
- Team discussions on improvements in navigation behavior, user interaction accessibility, and gathering feedback on accessibility enhancements.
- Continued outreach efforts to obtain customer feedback on accessibility improvements and validate enhancements with external users.
- Icon Modernization
- Continued driving alignment with the Fluent-inspired icon modernization effort and delivered additional refreshed icons.
- Usability Research / Lyssna Procurement
- Completed follow-up activities related to Lysine risk assessment and privacy impact assessment.
- Versioning and Installers
- Provided feedback on planned installer updates and product changes associated with the new versioning approach.
- Usability
- Initiated discussions regarding the layout and organization of controls in the upper-left corner of the JMP data table.
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 automated cases related to Restricted Party Screening):
Development Operations
- Jim:
- After reinstalling the OS on a Sonoma Mac mini, I was able to get the JMP 20.0 unit test stream running again
- Thanks to Paul Nelson for assisting in getting the Python modules installed via a shell script on multiple mac unit test machines
- Dug up a copy of the WinOS JMP 18.2.1 build files for David Barbour since they were not on JMPSRV01
- Brought several older machines up to CIS compliance standards (instead of turning them in)
- Branched //depot/rel/r20.0/… file for JMP 20 EA#5; building JMP EA on mac OS and soon, on WinOS.
- Melanie: Conferred with Joseph on a fix for some sample data scripts for 20, now that 19.2 is finished. Created EA5 PM Jiras. Tested and validated a variety of Jiras across DevOps. Working across many teams to accelerate JMP moving systems off of SAS infrastructure as SAS is officially retiring VMware (thanks especially to Shannon Leslie and Audrey who are spearheading the effort!). Turned Stringbot off for 19.2 – we’ll be running Stringbot only on 20.0 for a while!
- Myron:
- JMPTOOL-2268, JMPTOOL-2326: telemetry for 19.1 and 19.2
- JMPTOOL-2215: add manager field to JiraBot
- JMPTOOL-1837: delete superfluous employee telemetry data
- JMPTOOL-1762: move storage of testbot physical files to AWS
- JMPTOOL-2108: migrate crash system from jmptool to AWS
- Bob:
- Pushed 19.1.4 installers out to the wild of My JMP
- Cleaned up scripts to account for a non-build of JMP Pro Live that was stalling processes
- Prepped for EA 5
Localization
- Krzysztof: Tuning up the online memoQweb workflow after receiving feedback from vendors and reviewers (performance, assignments, resources). Writing up documentation for the new online workflow for vendor translators, editors and JMP reviewers. Working on moving XSTR compilation from jmptool to our server (jmptrans). Reviewing other L10N assets that need to be moved from jmptool and jmpsrv01. Testing our new LLM tool for polishing up our TermBank.
- Allison: Put together quotes with vendors for V20 localization and submitted purchase requests; validated localized 19.1.4 Release Notes pdf files and handed off to Web team; processed the JMP Doc Library title page files and sent them to vendor for DTP work; communicated with vendors and helped resolve issues translators and reviewers encountered during testing of memoQWeb.
- Sohail: Improvements to ChatUI including: URL pinning, added system prompt with formatting requirements, markdown formatting display, persistent column selection, and other UI bug fixes.
- Veronica:
- Downloaded JMP and Perforce
- Working on my onboarding tasks
- Sandy:
- Testing New Populate Job for Oxygen files
- Developing new Image Diff file validation for Oxygen files
- Trish: More review of strings. Onboarding Vernonica Johnson, our newest localization team member.
Documentation
- Qiana
- Sample data work: JMP-30716, JMP-30849
- Updated sample data instructions to include information about AI-generated data
- Page-by-page comparison of AR
- Reviewed the JMP and JMP Pro Product Roadmaps - 20 page
- Project planning and coordination
- Susan C:
- Finished creating the rest of the localized JMP Live 19.5 help, peer reviewed and handed off to test. Working on issue found by test.
- Finished work on the 19.1.4 release notes.
- Met with Allison to discuss JMP Live ideas & pursuing how to make them happen.
- Working on the page-by-page comparison of the AR book.
- Jill: Page comparison of JSR, peer review of translated JMP Live help, UI string review.
- Devon: Converting HTML5 documentation to XML, continued work on web help.
System/Host Testing
- Mandy: Mostly worked on Dynamic Tables - chasing down a crash when selecting rows from summaries, deleting them and then bringing them back - turned into a row states related JIRA for 20. Worked on Tags and auto tagging - imported a few tables of my own testing data to clean up and bit and tag - Internet open works but CSV does not so I opened a JIRA for that too. Working on a few new tables for 20 samples - still working on that issue and will be passing that along to others in Dev to assist with. Will be working with new testers on different areas to help with their learning JMP things of the Data table world. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- Audrey: Testing a new feature in the UT framework, and thanks to Nick Holmes for continuing to add features and respond to tester requests. Testing upcoming Jira changes in our sandbox. I18N testing for JMP 2027. Early testing of JMP 19.1.5. Working with Shannon Leslie to identify owners of machines still on SAS hardware and define a continuity plan. Reviewing Mimic Pipeline plans with Khushi Shah.
- Justin: Completed my update to SASIntegration automation suite to pull server details from a central location for ease of updating. Continued writing test automation script and manual validations for python virtual environment update. Validating MATLAB integration with the 2026a version now that we have a license available for it.
- Melisa: Finished up some of our 3rd round of 18N testing for 20 and entered several Jiras for hardcoded items I found. Spent a little time checking out the new metadata feature and sent feedback to Nick. Started looking at recode and entered a couple of crashes I found.
Web Testing
- Hui:
- Verified 3 defects on Warnings Panel, crash scenarios, and graphic script edge cases.
- Reported 13 new issues across axis/tooltip/reference-line defects and JMP Live script handling gaps (interaction, coverage, dark-mode rendering).
- Collaborated with 2 developers to identify 1 regression (JMP-31651); 1 risk remains open: complicated process screening report sorting behavior (JMPHTML-15699).
- Wrote test scripts into image regression test suite to prevent graphics-related failure and crash recurrence.
- Localization testing(JMP Live 20) begins next phase.
- Metrics: 3 verified | 13 reported | 1 regression | 1 risks | 0 reopened
- Anna:
- Verified John’s implementation of Scatterplot 3D connect points and normal contour ellipsoids with and without Groups.
- Testing Paul’s implementation of Surface Plot features.
- Testing Scatterplot 3D w/transform columns in HTML5.
- Reported issues w/Scatterplot 3D UI on desktop.
- Testing scoped transform columns on desktop.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Bob Hickey for sharing this cute picture of Mr. Frog who greeted him on his arrival at building A this morning. We’re not sure if the frog needed assistance but he didn't have a phone to ask! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: Hope you all have a great weekend and stay dry!
