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What's new 🆕

• We now generate a validation report even if the software unexpectedly crashed: users will be informed that it happened and are invited to report the error.
• The validation report name has been reworked to include information regarding the feed's feed_info.publisher_name or agency.agency_id.
• Various bug fixes.
• Our documentation for releases has been updated to match the latest development.

NPEs ❌

#469

Fixes 🔧

#462 #465

Changes ⚠️

#479

#481 #488 #487

Doc 📖

#463 #478 #490

Fixes

#459 #452

Doc

#453 #456

What's new

You can now run the validator directly on GitHub, see the relevant readme section: https://github.com/MobilityData/gtfs-validator/blob/master/README.md#via-github-actions---run-the-validator-on-any-gtfs-archive-available-on-a-public-url

We now have a local web UI

We now provide Docker images, see https://github.com/orgs/MobilityData/packages/container/gtfs-validator/192493 Release process completely automated, release cycle should be on a fixed schedule now

Our README has been updated.

NPEs

#387 #423

Fixes

#394 #429 #433

Changes

#395 #438 #439 #443

Description

Extend the number of supported rules to achieve feature parity with the python Google validator for what is strictly in spec.

New rules

• conditional presence of calendar.txt or calendar_dates.txt - #355

stops

• stops too far from trip shape - #340

agency

• agency.agency_lang match feed_info.feed_lang - #352

shapes

• increasing shape_dist_traveled along a shape - #363

csv

• no duplicate column in CSV - #326
• no empty csv file - #317

routes

• names unicity - #351

stop_times

• stop times departure time after arrival time - #198
• stop times travel backward in time - #338
• fast travel between stops - #332
• increasing distance stop times - #350

stop_times and trips

• verify no overlap in trip block #346

trips

• trip start and end time verification - #327
• additional verifications #344

frequencies

• frequencies start time before end time #335
• verify no overlap - #349

Behavior changes

• abort on error - #339

Release notes

• Complete implementation of CSV validation

  • agency.txt, stops.txt, routes.txt, trips.txt, stop_times.txt, levels.txt, transfers.txt, calendar.txt, pathways.txt, calendar_dates.txt, shapes.txt, feed_info.txt

• Agency related validation

• Validate route id reference in trips

• Cross validation between agency.txt and routes.txt

• Fix for issues #288 and #322

• Validate trips.service_id

• Validate shape_id references

• Feed related validation

Additional info

• Starting with this release we provide our tests results as well as javadoc
• You can find the complete set of implemented rules in RULES.md
• You can find snapshot versions of the latest merge on master via our GitHub action page

• Notice format has been reworked

  • level and code have been separated
  • extra data is serialized in a noticeSpecific object in the JSON output

• Add feature to run the validator with a json configuration file in place of command line arguments

• Add a feature to run the validation only on a subset of files

• Add GTFS semantics validation

• Add documentation detailing implemented rules

• Add documentation on how to extend the validation rules

• Various bug fixes

First stable release

• add supports for all files that can be contained in a GTFS archive
• add support of all GTFS types for CSV validation and base GTFS validation (numeric ranges and string formats)
• add JSON export of validation results
• add protobuf export of validation results

See the v1.1.0 README for usage information.

Note that command-line parameters in the master branch have changed since this release.

Note: README.md link to GTFS specification schema should point here

• fix for #54
  • allow for validation of all required and optional GTFS files to the exclusion of calendar.txt, calendar_dates.txt, stop_times.txt and frequencies.txt
• additional console output

First public release

Base validation

• header presence
• row length
• numeric types parsing
• valid ranges according to schema file

Applied to feed_info.txt, agency.txt, stops.txt, routes.txt, trips.txt, pathways.txt and levels.txt

Validation results are visible in the console as well as in result.txt in your output folder. Requires Java 11