19.1.5: Final Installer Candidates 8/9/26 • 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 August 7, 2026!
Today marks the end of the summer internship program with SAS and JMP. Congratulations to all on a successful summer! JMP interns presented over five demo sessions in the past two weeks, and if you missed any of them, I encourage you to check them out – very impressive work! Many interns also presented posters to crowds of attendees at the Intern Expo yesterday in building C. Several of our interns will be able to continue working with us in a year-round capacity, and we look forward to their continued contributions. Special thanks to Audrey Shull, Trevor Rathje and Christine Bevan for working so closely with the interns throughout the summer and beyond!
Mia Stephens shared that notification of the availability of EA5 was sent to Early Adopter members on Tuesday. Thanks to developers and product managers for updating feature pages, and for everyone else who had a hand in getting it out the door! We plan to freeze EA6 on August 27 and continue finalizing features and fixing bugs as we progress to EA7, EA8 and EA9.
Please continue to review your open Epic and Story items with Planned Version = 20 and triage them appropriately. You can remove the Planned Version, update it to a later track or demote a Story to a Feature Request if it needs more research and evaluation. If you have Story or Epic items still in progress, please add them to the 20 Late Features page here and use the template to assess impact to downstream teams. Thanks to everyone who has already added items to this page! It’s very helpful to have a clear picture of feature work remaining in the track.
One final note - Maddi Walsleben shared that the marketing communications team is trying to compile a list of people who use JMP in fun and interesting ways to share on our social media channels. You can fill in this Microsoft form with details if you know about someone like that!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- First Portable UI String Handoff for 20 – 8/6/2026
- 20 EA6 Code Freeze – 8/27/26
- JMP 19.2 Security Freeze – 9/3/26
- 20 EA7 Code Freeze – 10/1/2026
- Final Portable UI String Handoff for 20 – 11/12/2026
- 20 Code Review Mode - 11/26/2026
- 20 Code Freeze – 1/7/27
- Please visit Confluence for a full list JMP 19 dates and JMP 20 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Life Sciences Updates
- Jake:
- Extended the Torch Add-In GNN models to work with pharmaceutical small molecule binding data. I did a series of tests with published datasets to compare my results. I beat out the published GNN models, but not quite the best published models. I will try to beat the best models next week.
- Created a plan for extending the Torch Add-In GNN models to crystalline file formats (.CIF). This will allow users to run semiconductor-related datasets with the Torch Add-In.
- Presented my poster at the SAS summer intern Expo
- Added a “molecular class” column to the automatically generated SMILES/geometry data from the file loader GUI. This will allow users to interpret the model results more easily after running GNN models, because they will be able to assess whether their trained model is under/over performing on given molecular classes (e.g., alkanes, alcohols, phenols, etc. ).
- Drew: Final tweaks to NIST Validation and Installer Validation tools for PDF generation support. Fixing JMP Clinical Jiras. Researching enhancements to the JMP Clinical unit testing infrastructure. Attended all of the wonderful intern presentations. Very impressed with all of them!!! Pete Townshend knew - the kids are alright
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan:
- Delivered updated icon packages for a variety of Table Icons, Support Vector Machines, Naive Bayes, Venn diagrams, Medical Query Recurrence, and Fit Y by X, including accessibility-focused improvements.
- Expanded Fluent modernization coverage with additional refreshes including Crosshair, Header Stats Toggle, Column Filter Extras, JMP Search, and Columns Viewer.
- Progressed panel expand/collapse usability improvements, with Windows assets integrated into a testable build.
- Provided accessibility test scripts to UC System representative and reached out to Greg Kraus of SAS regarding usability testing, as well as Todd Hoffman.
- Facilitated conversation about small UI changes that could yield relatively large benefits.
- Presented an approach to help define report workflow UX language that frames approvals as review of a report definition/template rather than point-in-time data values, improving reviewer clarity.
- Kaylee: This week we had a sales enablement training on Workflow Builder and the value it brings by helping customers automate repetitive analyses, improve reproducibility, and scale best practices across teams without requiring coding. Owen Jonathan did a fantastic job presenting this training, and it was well received by our sales teams. If you would like to watch the recording, you can watch it here.
- Mia: The notification of the availability of EA5 was sent to Early Adopter members on Tuesday. Thanks to developers and product managers for updating feature pages, and for everyone else who had a hand in getting it out the door. Attended JSM in Boston for a couple days. Saw some interesting talks, and had an opportunity to connect with several JMP staff and users at the JMP booth.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Gary:
- Working with P&G to help identify use cases that cause the crash and subsequent corrupt data table related to this Jira: JMP-30350
- Survey comment of the week: This was the first time I made use of the JMP support. It was a very positive experience. I appreciated the timely response and also that regular feedback was provided on the status of my question..
- 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.
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 L: Reminder for those involved in sign-off: we've a new process to document any impacts to JMP software for security updates in a monthly release - these are rare but this new process ensures that Tech Support is aware when there are (or are not) impacts. Working with Audrey, reviewing the list of JMP-owned VMs that will need to be off of the SAS vCenters at the end of 2026 and 2027, finalizing our assessments so we can make migration recommendations and get those underway. Creating the security bulletin for the monthly security release and participated in the end-of-cycle monthly security reviews for each of the JMP products - signoff for our August releases is scheduled for next week. Weekly technical meetings. Worked with my intern, Drew Hunter, on his access control initiative project. Visited the Intern Expo to see many JMP interns' posters!
- Melanie: I’ve been enjoying last week off plus this week of half-days in NY (highs around 85!) • Ran the MIF-PDF job for Release Notes for JMP 19.1.5 • Provided a test table for JMP-30653 • Validated and closed some DevOps Tooling Jiras • Caught up on all the Intern Presentations (so good!) • Planning work for next week when I'm back in the office
- Jim:
- Marked multiple JIRA entries as Accepted & Closed for JMP 20.0
- Ran unit test suite against ASAN JMP Pro 20.0 build and processed results as new JIRAs for developers
- In the process of validating a unit test suite run on the newly created Windows 11 AMI (thank you Nick Ruva)
- Performed multiple Macintosh operating system updates for unit test and build machines
- Perforce support.
Localization
- Sandy:
- Testing New Populate Job for Oxygen files
- Testing new Image Diff file validation for Oxygen files
- Exploring using Oxygen tools for new Validations for our new files
- Developing new file validation for Oxygen files after populate job is run
- Krzysztof: Further tuning up the memoQweb setup, documentation, and training recordings for the online projects that will be used for PortableUI 20.0 translation. Gave a first memoQ training session to our new team member. Testing new L10N workflow functionalities and bug fixes. Looking at the Oxygen validation reports to decide what checks are needed for localized files.
- Allison: Processed the August iteration of Marketplace strings and sent them out for translation; processed the 19.1.5 Release Notes and sent the new strings out for translation; communicated with vendor on V20 localization quote; submitted purchase request in Zip; processed vendor invoices.
Documentation
- Susan:
- Working on 19.1.5 RNs, sent to L10N
- Worked out dates and tasks for JMP 19.2/JMP Live 19.6 Rns
- Going through plans to revamp JMP Live help
- Attended intern presentations
- Watching JMP Live demo recap
- Qiana:
- Sample data work: JMP-29506, JMP-27364, JMP-28809, JMP-28822
- Completed: Foundational Training – Change Management Learning Series
- Project planning and coordination
- Devon: Working on some cleanup scripts for XML docs, reviewing translated Japanese doc from the L10N team.
- Jill: UI string reviews, Release Notes peer review, and working on development goals.
System/Host Testing
- Hunter: Ran through installation and authorization cases with many JMP 19.1.5 desktop configurations in preparation for the upcoming 19.1.5 final installer testing next week. Reported one 19.1.5 installer item with some missing files to Bob and Jim. Investigated two JMP 20 EA 4 cases. JIRA verifications.
- Eric:
- Fixed testODBCTeradata.jsl nightly JSL test in dedicated suffix environment
- Debugging testODBCOpenonetable.jsl nightly JSL test in dedicated suffix environment
- Debugging testPIServerImport.jsl nightly JSL test in dedicated suffix environment; Corrected two assertion failures; still working on two other assertions failures.
- Debugging testQueryBuilderDefects.jsl nightly JSL test in dedicated suffix environment.
- Justin: Started the week clearing up Jira defects related to python virtual environment functionality and matlab loading datetime variables. I spent the rest of the week learning, executing, and following up on results from the Win/VB automation testing suite.
- Audrey: End-of-summer internship-related items, testing of 19.1.5 security fixes, preparing for 19.1.5 testing next week, some testing of data connectors, Jira triage.
Web Testing
- Natalie: HTML Automation report: 19.5.2 – 1 expected diff, 19.6 – 1 expected diff, 20.0 – 7 diffs total but all known and expected (bugs entered). Completed the updates for process screening testcases with new step to close the auto-expanded warning panel when a row is selected from the summary table. Great planning meeting with Steve for continued process screening automation progress and upcoming automation for Arnav’s new crosshair feature. Lots of intern time with presentations, on campus visits and expo.
- Taylor:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Preserve JMPLIVE_BASEURL port on upgrade when different from PORT setting
- Rearrange/remove installer pool settings
- Include jmp log contents in script post audit log entry
- Show results of most recent run in the script post UI
- User can see any errors from the last time the script post ran
- Side panel oddly narrow on first open
- Owner/admin can see History and Views of a script post
- Customer getting "JMP Pool Manager is currently disconnected" up to 5 times a minute
- Add env flag to allow client logging in prod
- Hui:
- Drove Round 1 localization test coverage for JMP Live 20 (JMPTEST-2096); structured and executed 8 test sub-tasks spanning 57 test cases across Warnings, Control Charts, Admin, Posts, Data Viewer, Report View, Spaces, and Client General — establishing full client-side I18N test scope for this release cycle.
- Started Control Chart Warnings testing (JMPTEST-2628, 20 items).
- Investigated WEBJMP-12885 (untranslated chart labels in non-English locales) — confirmed by-design, closed.
- Returned JMPHTML-15689 (warning pane fails to open for test markers beyond first process) to Developing — confirmed reproducible after developer could not reproduce.
- Feature scope clarified with Michael; Josh updated localization server — no blockers.
- Metrics: 1 verified, 9 open, 0 blocked, 1 reopened, 0 regressions.
- Seema:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Owner/admin can see History and Views of a file post
- Initial regeneration of report fails when multiple table are published
- Contour Profiler: Firefox: dropdown boxes for categorical X variables are shaded
- Data edit hangs after Edit button clicked
- Created Jiras:
- Panels for sidebar items appear thin until History of View panel is loaded
- In Progress:
- Add support to Crosshair tool on JMP Live - Thanks to our intern Arnav for doing such a great job on this!
- Anna:
- Testing John’s updates for ScatterPlot 3D.
- Tested Xan’s updates for Reference line drawing order, bar label truncation, Y axis values disappear when zoom Distribution Normal Quantile Plot.
- Tested Paul’s implementation of Surface Plot features for HTML.
- Tested Graph Builder fixes for desktop to verify that everything persists and functions correctly in HTML5 and JMP Live.
Core
- Dan S: Fix JMP 20 regression for Filter(1) pref in Categorical. Fixed an extraneous Dispatch() issue coming from LegendBox. Updated Profiler to prevent Column Switcher from changing underlying factors, or switching to column that does not have a formula. Working on additional styling and accessibility support.
- Evan: Added basic a11y peers for AlignmentGridBox, CrosstabBox, and MatrixBox. Refactoring of newMatrix and NumDataFormat callsites. Telemetry analysis of Header Graphs and Header Stats. More a11y, styling, and JSS work.
- Xan: String work, axis bugs, seg order recording, pie seg color regression.
DOE and Reliability
- Simin:
- I attended the 2026 JSM in Boston and presented a paper on a screening accelerated life testing framework for evaluating the reliability of AI systems in the Survival Analysis, Reliability, and Accelerated Life Testing session.
- I worked with Caleb, Mark, and Ryan DeWitt and continued revising multiple experimental design options for the second phase of the additive manufacturing project.
- Caleb: Just got back from JSM. Had a great time catching up with colleagues and helping out with the booth! I attended a few sessions as well and heard some interesting ideas for us to consider in the DOE group.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Working on updates to Splash, About and window titles for new 2027 branding; should be able to pass the branding suffix ("2027") as a build script define. Underline-style buttons on Windows can now include icons. Like Mac, icons will not have an underline but are clickable. Worked with Evan McCorkle on improving the a11y name of the color display control. Thanks to Andrew Vitkus for the color consultation. Added a11y labels into some obvious areas of the Surface platform. Updated line weight of host control default focus visual to more-closely match WinUI and portably drawn kbd focus. Icon updates. Reported the behavior seen using JMP Clinical on Server 2019 to the Microsoft Security Response Center as a possible OS security issue.
- Paul: Security Updates
- JMP-31795 - HDF5 to 2.2.0 -> JMP 19.1.5, 19.2, 20.0
- JMP-31491 - Python 3.13.15 -> JMP 19.1.5, 19.2
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Continued work on JMPHTML-15608 (Implementing Constellation Plot). Creating the system for handling edge and vertex selection with shift and/or control keys pressed has proved more complicated than I’d hoped due to the way node graph selections propagate outwards from the selected vertices (and how this changes depending on the key states).
- John Powell:
- Committed support for Scatterplot 3D’s Nonpar Density Contours(JMPHTML-15703).
- Researching solutions to improve rendering of transparent 3D surfaces(JMPHTML-15727) .
- Working on retaining open/closed states of Outline Boxes across sessions(JMPHTML-15737).
- Helped with a Technical Support question about Interactive HTML Dark Theme and graph background colors.
- Michael Senoyuit: Added a search bar and row counts to categorical LDFs in HTML.
JMP Live
- Aurora:
- Custom Triage Status (audit logging, database changes, documentation)
- Third party package updates
- Iteration retrospective / planning / demo
- Exploring Bitbucket Pipelines
- Bug investigations and filing
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixed a couple small bugs in SEM (prototypes in the SEM SI Table and names of grouping variable levels). I’ve also been debugging the mean and variance entries of the asymptotic covariance matrix of the “MultiCorrelationFitter.” This matrix is needed to adjust the SEs of the Categorical MIIV-2SLS in SEM. Working on a simulation so we can have a good oracle. Received nice feedback from attendees at a conference last week where I had the chance to present and demo the new estimator (MIIV-2SLS) in SEM. Met with D&I Advisory Team to work on our charter.
- John Sall:
- In Explore Outliers - Robust PCA, colorize saved residuals and scaled residuals (JMP-31784);
- In Process Screening, increase the number of horizontal axis labels;
- In Custom Design and Design Explorer, continue tool tip and layout work (JMP-31707).
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Testing multivariate capability analysis and the (new) separate variability and attribute gauge launches. Updating attribute gauge unit tests due to recent outline node changes.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Xan Gregg for pointing out that there’s a meme generator for customizing that xkcd comic I sent this morning so you can create one for your area of expertise: https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/ Enjoy and hope you all have a great weekend!
