Issues

• Committed unlocked files cannot be validated with --git-ref

  bug
  bids-standard/bids-validator#458 · Filter by author effigies opened on Oct 8, 2026
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• Validator false error: TSV_COLUMN_MISSING

  bids-standard/bids-validator#452 · Filter by author Moo-Marc opened on Sep 21, 2026
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• Validator reports internal HED errors when constructing invalid objects when more specific errors are available

  bids-standard/bids-validator#444 · Filter by author happy5214 opened on Aug 29, 2026

• Warn on presence of deprecated metadata fields

  enhancement
  bids-standard/bids-validator#434 · Filter by author psadil opened on Jul 10, 2026 · 3.1
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• dataset.modalities and dataset.datatypes are not being populated in the BIDSContextDataset

  bids-standard/bids-validator#433 · Filter by author psadil opened on Jul 10, 2026
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• MISSING_SESSION warning not triggered on ds000247

  bids-standard/bids-validator#432 · Filter by author psadil opened on Jul 10, 2026
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• Generate output in SARIF format

  enhancement
  bids-standard/bids-validator#421 · Filter by author effigies opened on Jun 26, 2026

• Make it schema-driven for skipping top level directories & discovery of subdatasets

  designschema
  bids-standard/bids-validator#416 · Filter by author yarikoptic opened on Jun 3, 2026

• Improve styling for advanced options and error reporting

  enhancement
  bids-standard/bids-validator#396 · Filter by author effigies opened on Apr 29, 2026

• [FEAT] render webpage from validation results json

  bids-standard/bids-validator#393 · Filter by author bpinsard opened on Apr 24, 2026

• git submodule support

  command-lineeffort: highpriority: low
  bids-standard/bids-validator#392 · Filter by author effigies opened on Apr 22, 2026

• filememoize cache collides across rerooted trees in parallel recursive validation

  bids-standard/bids-validator#391 · Filter by author yarikoptic-gitmate opened on Apr 21, 2026
  1

• Does not validate the column value "Format" if "Description" is set

  bids-standard/bids-validator#386 · Filter by author yarikoptic opened on Apr 16, 2026
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• max-rows (default of 1000) causes misleading error for larger dataset

  bug
  bids-standard/bids-validator#382 · Filter by author asmacdo opened on Apr 14, 2026
  3

• Misleading error when json sidecar is missing

  bids-standard/bids-validator#381 · Filter by author asmacdo opened on Apr 14, 2026
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• Validate given a "tree" of (S3) URLs for a dandiset

  bids-standard/bids-validator#371 · Filter by author yarikoptic opened on Mar 28, 2026
  1

• BEP032: NWB + NIX minimal content validation

  bids-standard/bids-validator#369 · Filter by author CodyCBakerPhD opened on Mar 20, 2026
  13

• BIDS-Validator "schemaVersion" in JSON

  bids-standard/bids-validator#353 · Filter by author SRSteinkamp opened on Feb 4, 2026
  2

• [bug] Config File Not Applied to Derivative Data/Summary

  bugderivatives
  Bug

  bids-standard/bids-validator#344 · Filter by author bendhouseart opened on Jan 21, 2026
  

• Display Only Unique Warnings/Errors w/ File Count

  enhancement
  Enhancement

  bids-standard/bids-validator#295 · Filter by author bendhouseart opened on Nov 20, 2025
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• Return default config file to be .bids-validator-config.json ?

  bids-standard/bids-validator#293 · Filter by author yarikoptic opened on Nov 12, 2025

• bidsignore trailing-slash syntax docs needed

  bids-standard/bids-validator#291 · Filter by author asmacdo opened on Nov 10, 2025

• "value" as a column containing numerical values trigger an error

  bids-standard/bids-validator#290 · Filter by author arnodelorme opened on Nov 8, 2025
  1

• Expand issue interpolation

  bids-standard/bids-validator#277 · Filter by author rwblair opened on Oct 1, 2025
  1

• do not ANSI color --version, especially if output is not interactive TTY

  bids-standard/bids-validator#275 · Filter by author yarikoptic opened on Oct 1, 2025
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