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 21, 2026.
Testing is nearing completion for our JMP 19.1.5 and JMP Live 19.5.2 security releases and is expected to be available to customers early next week.
JMP 2027 EA6 is planned to freeze next week on Thursday, August 27. In addition to EAs for the desktop products, we will have a JMP Live EA based on the EA6 code base. Once created and tested, the JMP Live EA will be made available to select JMP Live customers for testing new features.
Please continue to review your open Epic and Story items with Planned Version = 20 and triage them appropriately. Where appropriate, you can add items to the 20 Late Features page or the 20.1 Features page. Thanks to everyone who has already added items to these pages. It’s very helpful to have a clear picture of feature work remaining in the track.
Thanks to Russ Wolfinger for presenting this week on JSL Assistant Updates and AI Integration. He talked about the current state of the JSL Assistant, discussed recent challenges, and demoed the current implementation and direction. A lively Q&A touched on many issues around delivering an integrated AI Assistant with JMP.
Call for Interest from Dan Schikore: We are planning to start a weekly discussion group geared toward new developers, but open to anyone interested. We plan to start next week with a small introductory meeting. Later meetings will typically involve reading or watching content on a topic, then meeting to discuss it and how it applies to JMP. Planned topics can be found in Introductory Developer Discussions, and additional topics may be added. Contact @Dan Schikore to be added to the list.
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan:
- Completed ~10 Fluent-aligned icon updates.
- Provided an interactive prototype for JMP-31781 that demonstrates a potential solution to the nested-scrolling issue.
- Published findings from a JAWS accessibility review provided by Greg Kraus and the SAS team.
- Met with David White and Evan McCorkle to discuss potential accessibility improvements for the data table.
- Reached out to Lyssna (usability testing service) regarding an expired quote after the procurement team approved the purchase.
- Sara: This week, Product Marketing shared the August Sales update with a lot of great resources and trainings for our global sales teams. Resources include an AI blog for sales teams to share JMP’s position on AI with customers more effectively (Dan Valente, Scott Allen) as well as an Infrastructure Feasibility considerations page (Dan Valente, Dieter Pisot, Alex Lippincott) to help sales address common technical questions they may encounter and how to reframe the conversation. On top of that we hosted a Data Connectors training (Brian Corcoran, Dan Valente, Peter Polito), Workflow Builder training (Owen Jonathan), and then partnered with GTET on a Bayesian Optimization training (Bradley Bowen) - all worth the watch! Additionally, this month’s marketplace featured extension is the semiconductor toolkit (Mike Anderson).
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- This week, Technical Support and Engagement have been focused on several customer issues and tasks related to JMP 19.1.5. Next week, we look forward to welcoming Sarah Seligman back following parental leave.
- 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:
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Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week (excluding cases related to Restricted Party Screening):
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Development Operations
- Shannon L: Rolled out the Jira workflow for requiring the Fix Version field be set, for JMP, JMP HTML5, and JMP Clinical development projects; updated related documentation and answered user questions. Created Jira automations to the R&D Jira projects, to add watchers for Critical, Blocker, and TSMUSTFIX Jira issues. Made improvements to the Critical-tracking Jira dashboard. Monitoring signoff and release timing for the August JMP 19.1.5 and JMP Live 19.5.2 release, and finalized the draft of the security bulletin. Continued with JMP 2027 reviews. Worked with my intern, Drew Hunter, to create the Phase 2 requirements for our JMP Access Control Initiative. Oxygen migration program management. Weekly technical meetings. Bitbucket / Snyk API integration for scanning JMP Assistant. Worked with Audrey on the inventory of JMP servers located in the SAS CIS & R&D VMWare centers, to plan their migrations or decommissions.
- Melanie: Created EA 7 Jiras for Product Management • Created End of Release tasks for 19.2 JMPTOOL-2371 • Thanks to Bob, Shannon L, Audrey, and John Schroedl for a quick conversation regarding JMP application names and install locations and testing implications JMP-32063 • Working on enhancements to the Status graphs for daily Unit Tests • Worked with Shannon L to extend and improve tracking for Criticals and Blockers • Ran MIF-PDF for updates to Release Notes for JMP for 19.1.5 and updates for the Installation Guide for JMP Live for 19.5. • Shadowed Shannon L and tested the rollout of required Fix versions for certain Jira transitions • A variety of testing activities across Dev Ops projects
- Jim:
- Integrated the necessary change into the 19.1.5 branch; created final image candidate (#3) builds on mac OS and WinOS
- Processed results from the latest JMP Pro 2027 leaks enabled unit test run
- Performed multiple mac OS system updates, across most unit test machines
- Updating mac OS build scripts for the upcoming EA to utilize the new JMP 2027 naming.
- Bob: JMP-31649 – modify EA installers on windows to include "2027" information in required places. JMPTOOL-2364 – begin process of investigating InstallShield 2026 for use in version 20. JMP-31907 – installer validation 19.1.5 FC#3. JMP-31648 – decision to not change name of download file for version 20 to include reference to “2027”. JMPTOOL-2355 – Add installer program to handle JMP Pro Live 20 EA
Localization
- Trish: Planning for Version 20 localization.
- Sohail: Added edit categorization to chatUI and thoroughly tested. Provided special diff handling for reduction and scoring jobs, added histograms for category frequencies, and provided filtering for different edit categories.
- Krzysztof: Finished documentation and training recordings on new online localization workflow for vendors. Run Stringbot to clean up strings for the PortableUI 20.0 handoff to localization next week. Working on moving localization assets from jmptool and jmpsrv01 to our own server.
- Allison: processed the updated 19.5 JMP Live Help file for translation to capture the correct installation instructions; processed the updated 19.1.5 Release Notes for translation; put together quotes and submitted purchase requests for translation reviewers; processed invoices; communicated with vendors on upcoming 20.0 Portable UI localization.
Documentation
- Susan: Working on 19.1.5 RNs (Jira). Prepped the 19.2/19.6 RNs and created timeline of tasks in Jira. Finished up JMP Live 19.5 install updates to English help. Working with Allison to finish up the JMP Live content restructuring outline
- Qiana: Sample data tables, including JMP-12987. 19.2 Release Notes. Completed the Q3 Check-in: Engagement and Retention [2026] training
- Devon:
- Jill: UI string review and working on content for new features JMP-27017, JMP-30580, JMP-13069, and JMP-30744.
- Veronica: creating the GIFs for JMP Pro 2027 Quick-Start.
- Chris: Working on Release Notes, help CSS, getting DOE to build with navigation.
System/Host Testing
- Hunter: Completed verification of authorization cases for JMP 19.1.5 final installer testing. Investigated two JMP 20 EA 5 cases. JIRA verifications.
- Eric:
- Fixed the failures in testODBCOpenonetable.jsl nightly JSL test in the dedicated suffix environment
- Fixed two failures in testPIServerImport.jsl nightly JSL test in the dedicated suffix environment; will need to update the test to alleviate the other failures.
- Attempted rebenching failed to fix assertion errors in testQueryBuilderDefects.jsl; will also need to edit the regression test for JMP-15278 in this script to use a new table that actually currently exists.
- Testing JMP-27403 Login to Snowflake V2 endpoints with public/private key; currently blocked because I can’t login to the Snowflake web console to register contents of my public key; entered a ticket and waiting for assistance.
- Verified and closed JMP-28906 New SQL Query does not return SQL syntax errors to the log. Tested on both Windows and Mac.
- Working to verify JMP-27463 Clicking the Help button from AspenTech IP.21 Server UI redirects to invalid noinfo online help page; waiting on feedback from the developer.
- Audrey: Testing for 19.1.5, chasing Auto-integration errors, working with Shannon Leslie on getting our plan in place for moving our hardware off of SAS VMware, learning about Endpoint Manager, evaluating sample data changes and their effect on testing.
- Nick: Continued work on some metadata jsl unit tests, filing bugs for bad/undefined behavior as I’ve worked through some tests. I helped Jim identify an issue causing a particular test run not to show up where it was expected to in dashboard results. I added another feature to the Unit Test GUI that allows users to subset the test list to all tests that they ‘own’. And lastly I have worked to clean up some recently failing unit tests which included filing a jira related to a Projects crash.
Web Testing
- Hui:
- Verification and localization on track: JMP-20058 (Journal histogram issue) confirmed fixed on JMP 20, now moving through JMP19.2.3; Control Chart warning localization signed off on JMPLive 20.
- Quality risk surfaced: 5 defects reported, most notably a Major regression (JMPHTML-15771) that breaks core Control Chart interaction (magnifier, panning, cross-hair) -- recommend priority triage.
- Test scope alignment underway with Michael Senoyuit on JMPHTML-15444 to ensure coverage matches intended search-box behavior before finalizing cases.
- Overall: Solid execution; one cross-branch dependency (JMP-20058) and one Major regression open for follow-up.
- Metrics: 1 verified, 1 blocked, 0 reopened, 5 reported, 1 regression.
- Seema:
- Accepted and Closed:
- Backend support for query to get all triage statuses
- Backend support for createTriageStatus mutation
- Backend limit on number of custom triage statuses
- Remove triage_updated_by attribute
- Backend support for deleteTriageStatus mutation
- Backend support for setTriageStatusOrder mutation
- Use triage status level from triage_statuses table for backend work
- Remove triage_status from control_chart_markers table
- Charts for Process screening reports not displayed when browser window is resized
- JSL: Add Ability to Retrieve Available JMP Live Connections
- Use triage status name from triage_statuses table for backend work
- Use triage_statuses table to serve existing REST API routes
- Backend support for filtering by any specific triage status (GraphQL and REST API)
- Created Jiras:
- Message for max triage statuses should be displayed when trying to add status
- Process Screening reports with active warnings should be listed in Spaces -> Warnings
- Multi-select and triage not updating all warnings until manual refresh
- Badge number for open CCB Warnings not updated unless report is refreshed
- Filtering on multiple status names for same status level shows the same filter text (level)
- Email notification shows custom triage status without a label
- In Progress:
- Lots of Jiras for custom triage status
- Anna: Verified Paul’s updates for Surface Plot. Tested WHERE clause display fix Dan S. implemented for Process Screening and reported Jira for HTML5 which omits it from reports. Verified Mike’s implementation of Italics in graph title and axes. Verified Mike’s fix for band style error bars for Points charts w/Color variable. Testing new scenarios using data w/hidden, missing and excluded row states w/different chart types.
- Josh: Continued JMP Live 19.5.2 installer testing with JMP Pro for Live 19.1.5. Assisted Support with JMP Live log errors. Planned for JMP Live 19.6 and JMP Live 2027 EA6 testing. Worked on adding the Notices Validator to the JMP Live 19.5.2, 19.6.0, and 20.0 update installers. Performed JMP Live Jira testing to verify that the JMP pool no longer becomes stuck in the Launching state when started after the webjmp service in versions 19.6 and 20.0
Core
- Dan S: Additional accessibility work – replacing key-focus with edit-focus in more boxes (fixes key navigation in Formula Editor), removing focus from boxes that become hidden, and showing tooltips on boxes that are focused via the keyboard (Win only). Fix for Dispatch on FrameBox to not save {0,0} size if the frame is collapsed. Updated data filter where-clause displayed in reports to use same numeric format as the filter is using. . Fix for Redo Analysis which failed in a case where platforms have multiple alias names.
- Evan: Enabled Data Table Header Graphs by default. Improving text and other contrast in both Light, Dark, and High Contrast modes to meet WCAG 2.2 1.4.3 and 1.4.11.
- Xan: RowStateAbility-based selection highlighting in TopSeg (GB Formula element) ; undefined behavior fixes
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Finished some work on a late feature allowing users to lock group sample sizes in the sample size explorers. I also started addressing outstanding bugs on the new acceptance sampling explorers.
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles:
- Implemented some changes to JMP-15608 (Implement Constellation Plot in Interactive HTML) to address things found during code review; work has been committed and the issue submitted for testing.
- Submitted old issue JMPHTML-14956 (Band style error bars not exported properly with points in graph builder with a color variable) - which had been held open in case the JMP side of the issue was fixed in 19.2 – back to testing to close, since it was confirmed that the fix will not be pushed into 19.2.
- Fixed issue JMPHTML-14976 (Line Segment should go static for unsupported Graph Builder Order By Rows or Row Runs); code review is pending.
- Submitted issue JMPHTML-15541 (Implement Italic Titles and Text Boxes) for testing. The code had been committed some time ago, but for some reason it did not get submitted for testing.
- John Powell: Worked with Dan Schikore and Paul Spychala to see what can be done to resolve issues on JMP Live with output from Zach White’s MSA add-in. Implementing an order-independent transparency algorithm (WBOIT) to improve rendering of transparent 3D surfaces(JMPHTML-15727) . Discussed Feature Requests for Interactive HTML with Dieter, Praveena, and Paul Spychala.
- Michael Senoyuit:
- Paul Spychala: Worked on surface plots and contour profilers on JMPLive/HTML
- Support surface plot modifying categorical values [JMPHTML-15665]
- Support surface plot auto z scale toggle [JMPHTML-15585]
- Support contour profiler dropdown box dark mode styling [JMPHTML-15210]
- Support surface plot X/Y axis selection via radio button [JMPHTML-15768]
- Several bugs with surface plots [JMPHTML-15671,JMPHTML-15742]
- Fixed HTML/JMPLive with Fit to Windows issues on zoomed browsers [JMPHTML-15105]
- Support persisting settings with Graph Builder resizing [JMPHTML-15732]
JMP Live
- Aurora: Process Screening triage (add another filter option to markers query, improve performance of History table). Joined in talks about Report Workflow feature. Plan for Discovery US. Bug hunting.
Statistics
- Laura C-S:
- John Sall:
- In Process Screening, support a label Axis in Shift Graph up to 500,000 processes, fix some lower limit logic (JMP-31964),
- and reorganize the menu to use more submenus (JMP-29636).
- In DOE, simplify and clean up code in various places (JMP-32042).
- In Fit Logistic, include Response name in "Make Combined Data Table" (JMP-31992).
- In Conditional numeric formats, change the thresholds for Stability Index, Stability Ratio, and Capability Index to recommended boundaries (JMP-32040).
- Work on the plenary presentation with others.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Testing NF conditional formatting changes used for capability/stability indices and NF multivariate capability. Attended a Process Screening customer feedback session and entered customer comments into Jira. Investigating beta feedback related to Process Screening. Bug verification.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed stat UI strings prior to first string handoff in JMP 20.0. Wrote some 19.2 release notes for stat features.
