19.2.1: Security Freeze 10/8/26 • 20.0: open in main; EA7 Code Freeze 10/1/26; Code Freeze 1/7/27
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 18, 2026!
QA has now signed off on 19.2 installers. Once all sign-offs are complete, we plan to release 19.2 in MyJMP on Tuesday, September 22. Next week, you can find release notes on this page, and the Security Bulletins will be published on the JMP Trust Center here once installers are released.
We have about 2 weeks before we will freeze for JMP 2027 EA7. Please continue to update your feature pages with important additions and bug fixes!
Thanks very much to Chris Hesser for giving a demo of the new Endpoint Connector feature at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed it live, you can find the recording here. Prior to the demo, Shannon Leslie also shared some information regarding the deprecation of VMware by SAS and its impacts on JMP. We’ve nicknamed this plan vExit and ask that if you have files or system dependencies on jmptool or jmpsrv01, read on!
As Shannon L indicated in the meeting and an earlier email to Development, SAS is retiring the VMware vCenter that houses jmpsrv01 and jmptool at the end of 2026. As a result, we are asking you to remove your folders and files from jmpsrv01/Users/ by December 1, 2026. Shannon’s slides can be found here and include best practices for using OneDrive to store any files that you need to retain from your user folder.
Shannon L, Audrey, and other DevOps team members will continue to reach out to teams who have tooling dependencies on jmptool and jmpsrv01 to help with migration plans to AWS, OneDrive, and/or SharePoint. Feel free to reach out to Shannon L and Audrey if you have questions or identify dependencies before they contact you.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- 20 EA7 Code Freeze – 10/1/2026
- 19.2.1 Security Freeze - 10/8/26
- 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 of JMP 19 dates and JMP 20 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan:
- Accessibility: Communication regarding external ACR evaluation.
- Product modernization: Continued developing the JMP 2027 icon system with Fluent-aligned design direction and communicated with the brand team about product graphics.
- Evidence-based improvement: Completed Fit Curve and Process Screening evaluations and validated a data-table resize discoverability issue through usability testing.
- UX research infrastructure: Expanded use of the U-Study walkthrough template and prepared additional product work for internal and customer validation.
- Product guidance: Provided UX direction or resources for header-graph states, data-table header resizing, report-approval messaging, and JMP Live default thumbnails.
- NN/G Classes: Completed a class on Application and Web Design and started another on Interaction Design.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Tech Support: Resolved a temporary phone outage and intermittent Salesforce issues while continuing customer support, validating Service Cloud improvements, and completing sign-off on JMP 19.2.0/Live 19.6.0.
- Engagement: Aligned on policies related to prior releases and 3PP in the Store, clarified ownership of release exception requests, and identified updates needed for customer-facing documentation and knowledge base content.
- JMP Live: Continued momentum on the support transition project with knowledge-transfer planning, deployment-tracking documentation, and process development to prepare Technical Support for deployment support responsibilities.
Case Topics for Technical Support Americas/Japan, last week:
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Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week (excluding automated cases related to Restricted Party Screening):
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Development Operations
- Shannon L: Leading with Audrey the JMP communication and change management for VMware Exit (Vexit); working with R&D and DevOps to identify JMP file and system dependencies on retiring VMs. Filed decommission requests for many JMP-owned VMs on behalf of other JMP employees. JMP 19.2 and JMP Live 19.6 end-of-release tasks, including PLSR meetings. Continued work on JMP 2027 name change. Weekly technical meetings, including planning for the Acrolinx deprecation.
- Melanie: Helped get a couple of new Sample Data tables ready for JMP 20 JMP-29724 • Helped Mandy, Brad Norris, and Audrey with a nightly unit test run conundrum (now solved, thanks Audrey!) • Working with a number of people to clean up the product folder in Perforce • Deleted some old data from jmpsrv01 • Working on Branching tasks for 19.2.1 and closing out 19.2 • Ran the MIF-PDF job for 19.2 Release Notes • A little testing for exporting CSV files JMP-30653
- Shannon C: Weekly technical meetings including discussions on crash system migration and jmpsrv01 deprecation. Reviewed and triaged older crash Jira issues, adding comments and new instances; reviewed candidates for 19.2.3 and existing items on Late Features page. Continued prep for Q3 catch-ups with team.
- Myron: Working on JMP-2108 (crash system migration) and all things related, and JMP-2401 (stringbot for builtins and all its parts).
Localization
- Krzysztof: Answering PortableUI 20 queries from translators and editors. Preparing for SampleData 20 translation (mitigating line breaks in notes). Discussed next steps regarding Acrolinx, software we use that was bought by Markup AI, which will have an impact on the tools and automation that we use at JMP for checking strings and documentation. Testing bug fixes and new automation features in the L10N workflow.
- Sandy: Tested addition of .dita files and file copy to stage for new populate job. Tested new post-process job. Fixed bug in commit job.
- Howard: Finished Dita pre/post process Job. Finished multiple file types for the project template and the API.
- Veronica: Helping Chris with validating the JMP 19.2 Help. Taking the UG screenshots.
- Trish: Responding to queries.
Documentation
- Jill: UI string review. Peer review 19.2 Release Notes. JMP-30744: Enhance Make into Data Table output. Peer Review 19.6 online Help.
- Devon: Testing and troubleshooting web help builds of our full documentation library.
- Susan C: Finishing up the 19.2 release notes. Creating the 19.6 JMP Live help.
System/Host Testing
- Mandy: Spent quite a bit of time chasing down an intermittent crash found with an old test - a fun one - turned out to be a legit diff that Dan S. had changed something that caught my attention, but the crash was due to changes Michael H. made to “prevent concurrent first-use races in LifetimeMonitor by atomically publishing its proof-of-life state”. He fixed that, and then we discovered an issue with tests missing from the nightly runs looking for the diff - thanks, Melanie Drake, for all the help there! And we finally got the 2 new Sample data tables pushed to JMP 2027 - look for them: Suntan Lotion Preferences.jmp and Dose Autoinjection.jmp (thanks to ALL that worked on this too!)
- Eric H: 19.2 Installer testing. Investigating JMP 20 beta report feedback (placement of power analysis option in Analyze-Fit model-Mixed model; lack of File->Save As SAS data set (sas7bdat) option. Continued testing for JMP-27403 Login to Snowflake V2 endpoints with public/private key.
- Justin: Working largely on writing automated tests for the new endpoint manager functionality. In addition, I worked on finishing 19.2 installer testing, closing bugs that were returned to me, and tweaking the suffix environment to keep it up to date for automated tests.
- Audrey: 19.2 Final Validation is complete. Interviewing. Reviewing jmpsrv01 files.
Web Testing
- Seema:
- Accepted and Closed:
- PS performance: Speed up regeneration for Semiconductor Capability
- Adding a new status before saving a new order puts statuses back into the pre-saved order
- Security: [nodemailer@9.0.3] - CWE-436 (20.0) (19.6.1)
- Process Screening Triaging - Retrieve warnings payload for each process send
- Consider adding hover help to the on-screen display of processes-with-open-warnings count
- Unexpected behavior when adding a status with the same name as an existing one that has leading/trailing spaces
- "Open", "Investigating", "Addressed" are confusing words for "Severity Level"
- In Progress:
- Improve body of notification email for Process Screening reports
- Show audit-log-wiped record in package and space History tab
- CCB Triaging report doesn't receive all the warnings onload
- Taylor M:
- In Progress:
- Suppress control chart notifications until Production and apply Production-specific rules
- User can update/replace the file in an existing File Post
- Accepted and Closed:
- PS performance: Details for a package regen with many warnings over 64MB download
- Cannot see map files in downloaded project
- Minor GraphQL issues with Report Workflow
- Include credential hints in script post UI
- Refactor InstallerActions.js into separate files
- Workflows become broken when one reviewer is deleted
- buildInfo update breaks installer build
- Rename Files tab in folder view
- Improve UI for reviewer assignment changes in history details
- Update uniqueness constraints for preference sets
- Anna:
- Researched Equal Earth projection for maps and requested a new feature to document and support in JMP due to a recent UN resolution.
- Assessed and gave feedback for new Process Screening Triage feature for JMP Live
- Tested Column Switcher report title display in JMP.
- Investigated Bar labeling issues in HTML5.
- Reported axis issues for wrapped role overlap of values.
- Reported issues w/Column Switcher and Surface plot 3D.
- Investigating issue w/Column Switcher disappearing on Redo Analysis in JMP.
- Hui:
- Continued I18N validation for the JMP Live Admin Client; access to the Authorization page in Configuration mode remains the primary dependency for a feature test.
- Continued LDF fine control testing; three major Jira defects were reported and remain the primary quality risk for the feature.
- Validation progression remains dependent on developer disposition of major Jira defects; broader retesting is being gated by remediation planning and re-verification, while isolated issues may be tracked separately if the impact remains contained.
Core
- Dave B: Fixed a couple of scatterplot 3d bugs – markers were too small, topplan included extra statements, and markers were sometimes ignored. Fixed a performance issue with jmprunner builds when there were a lot of warnings during the build.
- Dan S: Fixed some alignment issues and Data Filter "blocks" display issues to better support the Text Size A11Y setting. Customized font properties are better supported with SendToReport.
- Xan: Graph Builder icons for Windows; header graph threading synchronization; seg order performance.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Blazing a trail through sample size explorer tickets! Knocking ‘em down left and right!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Michael H: Improved IP.21 interactive tag browsing so that data sources with large numbers of tags load attributes in batches, displaying results as they arrive and resolving a user-reported limitation. Fixed a concurrency race in lifetime tracking. Investigated a Life Distribution ASan memory error. Worked with John Sall to refine Panel Box contrast (ongoing). Improved the Jenkins static-analysis reporting workflow so warnings can be attributed to the original developer.
- Paul N: Primarily JMP-32236 - Security - Update libcurl from 8.21.0 to latest 8.22.0 in JMP 20 and 19.2.1 branches.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Performed one day of Whitebox testing, met to discuss findings, and created bugs.
- Created an up-to-date list of log messages Interactive HTML writes when encountering unsupported features(JMPHTML-15846).
- Updated support for transparency in Scatterplot 3D to handle cases with mixed primitive types(JMPHTML-15727).
- Met with Praveena, Dieter, and Paul to discuss open stories in JMP HTML’s backlog.
- Started looking into automatically saving row state changes with reports on JMP Live(JMPHTML-15738).
- Paul Spychala:
- Support for Data Points (just points type) in Surface Plot on HTML (JMPHTML-15810)
- Bugs, log messages, and telemetry concerning Surface Plot on HTML (JMPHTML-15811, JMPHTML-15797, JMPHTML-15796, JMPHTML-15831, JMPHTML-15833)
- Praveena: We had Whitebox testing last Monday. Continuing work on JMPHTML-15046 - Persist all changes, added support for Presenter mode in the reports for HTML, triaged Process Screening bugs.
JMP Live
- Aurora:
- Process Screening (simplify notification email, add reportsWithMostMarkers query, add REST API for getting valid markers from report, bug fixing)
- Wrote a few Confluence articles
- Third-party package update
- Sat in on JMP Live 20 EA install (really interesting)
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In Categorical, fix the save logic for Highlight Cells when they don't result in coloring (JMP-32257).
- In DOE, add .setScrolling(25,20) to TableBoxes that might be tall, suppress header graphs for some saved data tables (JMP-32282), redesign action panels in Custom Design dialog (JMP-32437) and fix tip associations in Criterion ComboBox (JMP-32358).
- In various platform dialogs, use the .labelBy clause to associate NumEdit boxes with their labels for A11y (JMP-32355).
- In Fit Least Squares, suppress saving various options that are implied by default through the Emphasis setting—the saved scripts are much smaller (JMP-32363).
- Laura C-S: Continued polishing the edges of the new estimator in SEM: Added a warning when variables are entered as ordinal but have too many levels, made required edits to the launch dialog and the status tab of the report, fixed a bug with frequency variables and multiple-groups, and fixed two crashes with the descriptive stats in the report that resulted from recent changes. Wrote a couple of SEM scripts with the new estimator to include in sample data tables (thanks to Mandy, Jules, and Quiana for their help with this). Answered a community question on bootstrap in SEM for mediation models. Researching delta vs theta parameterizations of ordinal SEMs.
- Taylor P: Updated the orthogonal regression method to include a confidence interval for the intercept (JMP-8617).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued to work on XML clean-up for documentation source files while we wait for a full help build. Supported my team’s efforts to document new stat features in our playpen. Met with panelists for a panel that I am moderating at Fall Technical Conference.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Space Filling Design, adding new tests for design diagnostics and updating tests due to recent UI updates. Testing shelved build of Coverage Analysis script in Covering Array. Investigating potential performance issues.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Fixed several JMP Clinical 20.0 Jiras, one of which greatly improved the performance of adding larger studies. Triaged my 20.0 backlog. Thanks to Bob Hickey's example, I added automatic emailing of the JMP Clinical nightly unit test results to the testing team.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a great weekend! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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