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| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.15.0 | 2019-03-29 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 9.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.14.0 | 2018-09-28 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 9.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.13.1 | 2018-08-01 | This release of the Validate Tool is an interim point build of the component. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.13.0 | 2018-03-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 8.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.12.0 | 2017-09-29 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 8.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.11.1 | 2017-07-11 | This release of the Validate Tool is an interim point build of the component. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.11.0 | 2017-03-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 7.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.10.0 | 2016-09-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 7.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.9.0 | 2016-03-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 6.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.8.0 | 2015-09-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 6.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.7.0 | 2015-03-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 5.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.6.0 | 2014-09-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 5.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.5.0 | 2014-03-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 4.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.4.1 | 2013-11-27 | This release of the Validate Tool is an interim point build of the component. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.4.0 | 2013-09-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 4.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.3.1 | 2013-06-21 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 3.1.1 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.3.0 | 2013-03-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 3.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.2.0 | 2012-09-30 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 3.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.1.0 | 2012-06-11 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.2.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 1.0.0 | 2012-01-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 0.4.0 | 2011-11-09 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. |
| 0.3.0 | 2011-08-29 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.2.0 of the PDS4 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. |
| 0.2.0 | 2011-03-25 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.1.0 of the PDS4 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. |
| 0.1.0 | 2010-10-31 | This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.0.0 of the PDS4 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards. |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
 | Added capability to skip every nth record (or line for arrays) during content validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-603. | mcayanan |
| Re-added capability to check for un-labeled files in a bundle or collection. Inherited from core. This includes adding an "--allow-unlabeled-files" flag option to turn this check off. Fixes PDS-604. | mcayanan |
| Added integrity check that product LIDs have collection LID as their base and that collection LIDs have bundle LID as their base. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-605. | resneck |
| Added capability to check for the existence of referenced local identifiers within a label. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-606. | mcayanan |
| Added validation of Context Products referenced in a label. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-678. | mcayanan |
 | Updated how the tool does field format validation against Table_Character tables due to CCB-214. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-701. | mcayanan |
 | Fixed to support schematron rules using the document-uri() function. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-723. | mcayanan |
| Added check for valid member status designations in collection inventory tables. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-777. | resneck |
| Added support for ASCII_BibCode data types due to CCB-235. Inherited from core and pds4-tools. Fixes PDS-793. | mcayanan |
| Added support for validating ASCII_TIME values. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-795. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1C00 (1.12.0.0) version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Updated to support multiple collection products located in the same directory. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-570. | mcayanan |
| Updated to remove checking of valid files and directories at the root of a bundle directory. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-571. | mcayanan |
| Updated to disable the check that every file in a bundle or collection is referenced by a label. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-572. | mcayanan |
| Fixed a hanging issue when crawling a target URL directory. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-618. | mcayanan |
| Updated to support ASCII_Real values without leading zeroes. Inherited from core. Fixes SW-31. | mcayanan |
| Updated to support date time values with the fractional seconds field up to 6 digits long. Inherited from core. Fixes SW-32. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added a summary of messages section at the end of the reports. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-549. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to support reading of Arrays greater than 2GB. Inherited from pds4-tools. Fixes PDS-556. | mcayanan |
| Updated to read in only the portion of the data file corresponding with the object description. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-557. | mcayanan |
| Updated to support Product_Metadata_Supplemental products. Inherited from pds4-tools. Fixes PDS-561. | mcayanan |
| Fixed issue where it incorrectly flags errors for negative float values during array and table content validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-563. | mcayanan |
| Handle gap datetimes during data content validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-564. | mcayanan |
| Updated to support new start_bit_location/stop_bit_location elements. Inherited from pds4-tools. Fixes PDS-566. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to no longer check field values against its specified field format for binary tables. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-568. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1A10 (1.10.1.0) version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Updated how the tool generates the report in order to support large validation runs. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-516. | mcayanan |
| Updated to suppress logging messages from the core library as they should be propagated up to the report. Fixes PDS-522. | mcayanan |
| Fixed an issue where a BufferUnderflowException was being thrown. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-524. | mcayanan |
| Improved support for Catalog files. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-526. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to properly do field format precision checking of real values with exponential notation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-531. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to properly do field format specifier checking of large integer values. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-537. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to not flag readme_*.txt files as errors during PDS4 bundle rule validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-538. | mcayanan |
| Added a -D, --no-data-check flag option to disable content validation. Fixes PDS-542. | mcayanan |
| Added support for Array content validation. Inherited from core and pds4-tools. Fixes PDS-543. | mcayanan |
| Added a -E, --max-errors flag option to limit the amount of errors before terminating a validation run. Default is 100,000. Fixes PDS-555. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1A00 (1.10.0.0) version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Improved Operation guide examples. Fixes PDS-504. | mcayanan |
| Added support for validating data content of table products. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-508. | mcayanan |
| Updated to resolve a handshake issue when running with a JRE 7 older than update 95. Fixes PDS-515. | mcayanan |
| Updated to no longer support model versions older than 1000. Inherited from core. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1900 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Increased the JVM heap space allocation settings to -Xms2048m -Xmx4096m in the startup shell script and Windows batch file. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed support for Schema JAR URLs. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-467. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to support bundle.xml and collection.xml file names to trigger their respective pds4.bundle and pds4.collection rule types. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-501. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Restored URL support. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-481. | mcayanan |
| Restored integrity checking feature. Fixes PDS-482. | mcayanan |
| Restored file reference checking. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-483. | mcayanan |
| Restored the capability to pass in a target directory to do file by file validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-484. | mcayanan |
| Restored reporting of files that passed validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-485. | mcayanan |
| Restored capability to filter on specific files when passing in a target directory. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-486. | mcayanan |
| Restored capability to validate a schema defined in a label. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-487. | mcayanan |
| Disabled support for xinclude pointers. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-488. | mcayanan |
| Added integrity checking feature to the pds4.bundle and pds4.collection rules. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-490. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1800 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Updated Windows System Properties Install Guide. Fixes PDS-464. | mcayanan |
| Added support for PDS3 volume validation. Inherited from core. | mrose |
| Added in the 1700 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Clarified in the documentation the differences between using the -f flag versus the -x flag. | mcayanan |
| Added new features for PDS4 validation. Inherited from core. | mrose |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added a -B,--base-path flag option to specify a base path to use when resolving relative file references in a Checksum Manifest file. Also, use target root as the base directory when doing checksum validation. Fixes PDS-409. | mcayanan |
| Duplicate messages appearing in the report. Fixes PDS-415. | mcayanan |
| Does not place errors found in the referenced file of an xinclude statement in the proper place of the Validate Tool report. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-439. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to also recognize "Member Status" as a valid field name for the Field_Delimited element in the Inventory area of a collection. Fixes PDS-443. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1600 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inhertied from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Using the -i argument "-i someFile" returns an ugly error message. Fixes PDS-352. | mcayanan |
| Should not throw a warning for missing secondary members in a bundle or collection. Fixes PDS-371. | mcayanan |
| Integrity checking of multiple products with same LID but different VID. Fixes PDS-372. | mcayanan |
| Correct issue where a NullPointerException is thrown when a schema file could not be read. (Inherited from core). Fixes PDS-375. | mcayanan |
| Schema validation behavior error. Fixes PDS-376. | mcayanan |
| Referential integrity checking not recognizing missing products. Fixes PDS-401. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1500 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Report if a given XML Schema or Schematron file is invalid. Fixes PDS-320. | mcayanan |
| Enable reporting of line numbers for Schematron errors. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-345. | mrose |
| Correct issue where schema validation fails with a certificate issue in Java 6. (Inherited from core). Fixes PDS-351. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1400 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. (Inherited from core) | shardman |
| Updated to support schema and schematron URLs. (Inherited from core) | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Tool should allow the schema and schematron files specified in the labels to be used for validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-84. | mcayanan |
| Added support for bundle and collection integrity checking. Fixes PDS-280. | mcayanan |
| Added support for reading a checksum file for use in checksum validation. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-287. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to properly report errors when validating a directory. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-314. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to correctly find file references specified in Product_Document products. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-315. | mcayanan |
| Clarify and check for proper usage of referential integrity feature and update documentation accordingly. This also includes defaulting the file filter (-e option) to *.xml and *.XML. This can be overridden by specifying the option on the command-line. Fixes PDS-316. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1300 and 1301 versions of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Refactored the code so that schemas/schematrons are only loaded once per execution run in order to improve tool performance. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to properly crawl a URL directory. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to correctly populate the severity level field for INFO messages in the XML and JSON style reports. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Updated Unix shell script and Windows batch file to provide a more user friendly message when JAVA_HOME is not set in the environment. Fixes PDS-253. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1200 version of the schema and schematron. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Added in the 1201 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Updated to be xinclude aware when performing checksum and file casing validation on file references found in a PDS4 label. Inherited from core. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added support for xinclude pointers. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-27. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to correctly find file references that use the directory_path_name element. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-213. | mcayanan |
| Updated to leverage the "role" attribute in a schematron rule in determining the severity level of a failed-assert message in the schematron report. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-225. | mcayanan |
| Added support to change the severity level messaging in the report. | mcayanan |
| Added support in the reports to distinguish parent versus fragment label problems. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 1101 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added in the 1100 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Added the capability to generate reports in XML and JSON. | mcayanan |
| Updated to support URL inputs to the tool. | mcayanan |
| Updated the report header to display the timestamp with an ISO 8601 date time format. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added in the 1000 version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added the capability to perform the following file reference checks: Check that the casing of the file references match what is on the file system; Check that the generated checksums match the supplied checksums in the label, if provided. Inherited from the core library. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 0310b version of the schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | shardman |
| Bundled in DTD for 1.1 catalog. This allows doctypes to be specified in catalog files. Inherited from core. Fixes PDS-109. | pramirez |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Updated to support the v09 data model. This includes no longer crawling a bundle or collection to look for file references. | mcayanan |
| Updated version information to also display the default schema and schematron files being used during validation. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 0300a version of schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Fixed the report header to display the correct core schema and schematron being used when validating against an older version of the data model. | mcayanan |
| Fixed an issue that caused schematron to not be loaded internally when user supplied schema file(s) were given. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added a -S, --schematron flag option to be able to specify schematron files to use during validation. | mcayanan |
| Added in the 0800k version of schema and schematron and set as default for this release. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Added in the 0700j version of schema and schematron. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Updated xpath expressions to support the latest changes to the PDS4 data model. | mcayanan |
| Updated to provide a better mechanism for determining the product type of a target in order to determine appropriate crawling behavior. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to rely on the field_location and field_length attributes instead of commas to parse an inventory table file. | mcayanan |
 | Removed the Release Notes document. This document now serves as the single source for release changes. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added support for XSD 1.1 and XML Catalogs. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Added a -C, --catalog flag option to be able to specify catalogs to use during validation. | mcayanan |
| Cleaned up the documentation and removed the PDF generation feature. | shardman |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added in the 0500g version of the schemas and set this as the default for the release. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Added support to validate against older versions of the PDS4 data model. | mcayanan |
| Fixed to support crawling of all bundle class types. Fixes PDS-48. | mcayanan |
| Fixed a bug where the Validate Tool did not correctly crawl a collection or bundle when validating multiple targets of different types during a single executable run. | mcayanan |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added in the 0411f version of the schemas and set this as the default for the release. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Added in the 0300A version of the schemas and set this as the default for the release. Inherited from core. | pramirez |
| Type | Changes | By |
|---|---|---|
| Add capability to validate a product label or directory containing product labels. Validation capabilities provided by the Core Library. | mcayanan |
| Add capability to validate against a user-specified schema instead of the internal, default schemas used by the tool. Internal set of XML Schemas provided by the Core Library. | mcayanan |
| Add capability to disable directory recursion. | mcayanan |
| Add capability to optionally set the tool behaviors through a configuration file. | mcayanan |
| Add capability to specify file filters to search for specific files in a target directory. | mcayanan |