v0.6.0

Added

• Publication-quality chart redesign with PDF export (#299)
• EEGDash API tutorial (#283)
• Intel Mac system support with conditional numba and torch pinning (#294)
• Preprocessor output type system with documentation and inspection (#278, #289, #290, #291, #292)
• Feature extractor configuration files (#286)
• Optional recording-info parameter for feature extractors (#284, #285)
• on_error parameter to skip bad records during data loading (#276)
• CTF direct reader for .ds directories (#279)
• BrainVision handling with auto-repair and metadata generation (#236)
• Enhanced documentation search with autocomplete and live search (#238)
• fNIRS metadata extraction support (#238)
• EDF/BDF metadata extraction via MNE
• Auto-sync dataset CSV with git-annex size correction (#298)
• Duration computation for recordings
• datasets_dict dictionary for programmatic dataset access (#209)
• HTTP API client (#214)
• acq- BIDS entity support in record pipeline (#247)
• Pathology and modality labels for dataset summary (#212)
• Number of sessions column in dataset summary table
• Unified color palette across plots and CSS tags

Fixed

• Reliable data loading across 522 EEG datasets (#282)
• Git-annex key path resolution to BIDS names for S3 downloads (#280)
• BIDS TSV whitespace-padded n/a values (#278)
• BIDS coordinate system validation and extended non-numeric run fallback (#277)
• EEGLAB format: truncated .fdt handling (#266), epoch/trial mismatch (#275), latin-1 encoding (#269), error handling (#272)
• CTF "Illegal date" handling for numeric dash dates (#262)
• Corrupt MAT/EEGLAB file detection (#265)
• Participants.tsv subject/session ID repair (#264)
• Non-numeric run entities via check=False in BIDSPath (#263)
• Empty or malformed channels.tsv handling (#270)
• Auto-discovery and download of companion files .fdt, .eeg, .vmrk (#268)
• Split FIF file handling and continuation file downloads (#273)
• TSV encoding fallback order (#240, #241)
• Case-insensitive BIDS sidecar matching for task entity mismatches (#242, #243)
• Duplicate participant_id in participants.tsv (#244)
• European comma decimal separators in BIDS TSV files (#257)
• iEEG coordsystem.json key handling (#236)
• Git-annex key pointer rewriting in VHDR files (#259, #261)
• Corrupt data, bad timestamps, and invalid BIDS entity handling (#260)
• Directory-based format recursive download support (#253)
• Dynamic cumulative_sizes and accurate nchans computation (#243)
• BIDSPath entity extraction for git-annex datasets (#245)
• Subject/participant TSV fallback handling (#248)
• Signal filter preprocessor bug (#288)
• Anonymous hyperlinks in docstrings to avoid duplicate target warnings
• MNE/Dataset compatibility with retry handlers for multiple failing datasets (#271)

Changed

• Switched to released PyPI versions for MNE and MNE-BIDS dependencies
• Required pandas>=2.0 (#210)
• Consolidated _load_raw error handling into single retry loop
• Expanded default BIDS modalities to include SNIRF
• Bumped braindecode dependency to >=1.4.0

Documentation

• Full docstrings for Features module (#281, #287)
• Dataset documentation with tags, feedback section, and visualization updates (#235)
• P3 oddball tutorial updates (#192)
• Improved dataset page layout and README parser