2.0.0

Release notes

This is the second major release of the BIDS Validator.

The validator has been rewritten from scratch to interpret the BIDS Schema. This new validator

A development version of the validator may be accessed at https://bids-standard.github.io/bids-validator/dev/. While we encourage testing of features in the upcoming release of BIDS, note that any feature may be reverted until BIDS is released. Use the stable validator to validate against the most recent release of BIDS.

This release includes an updated documentation site at https://bids-validator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

For more details on this release, see the announcement on the BIDS Blog.

Features

• Validation of BIDS Derivatives (introduced in BIDS 1.4.0) datasets, including opt-in recursive validation of BIDS Derivatives datasets discovered in derivatives/ subdirectories.
• Support for BIDS-MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy), introduced in BIDS 1.10.0.
• Consistent application of the inheritance principle
• Consistent type-checking of JSON sidecar fields and TSV column entries
• Consistent warning of missing RECOMMENDED metadata.