0.82.0

🚀 Enhancement

• feat: extract brain area anatomy from NWB location fields #1807 (@bendichter @yarikoptic bdichter@Benjamins-Mac-mini.local)
• Add IZeroClampSeries and RoiResponseSeries to the neurodata type map; fix OptogeneticStimulusSite typo #1946 (@bendichter)
• Remove dandi-archive compatibility kludges that no known instance needs #1973 (@claude @yarikoptic-gitmate)
• Preserve NWB subject age-reference metadata #1931 (@AtomicGlance)

🐛 Bug Fix

• Fix partial Zarr download by URL: per-URL filters, missing subpaths, trailing slashes #1929 (@claude @yarikoptic)
• Map C. elegans sex XX/XO to hermaphrodite/male #1976 (@claude @yarikoptic-gitmate)
• Enhance upload/download operation error messages #1793 (@yarikoptic @CodyCBakerPhD @Copilot @yarikoptic-gitmate)
• Give SexType/SpeciesType built from IRIs a name; allow dandischema 0.15.x #1949 (@claude @yarikoptic @yarikoptic-gitmate)
• Reject nonexistent requested paths during asset discovery #1932 (@AtomicGlance @yarikoptic)
• Raise the nwbinspector floor to 0.7.2 for more flexible dependencies specification as relating to zarrs #1972 (@h-mayorquin)
• Allow newer versions of zarr package #1968 (@kabilar @CodyCBakerPhD @yarikoptic)
• Record the actual NWB Inspector version in validation results #1966 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)
• Do not recurse when getting the metadata of an NWB file in a BIDS dataset #1958 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)

🏠 Internal

• CI: measure coverage in Python subprocesses via patch = subprocess #1953 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)
• CI: start coverage before pytest loads dandi's plugin #1951 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)
• Fix get_metadata return annotation and import order in misctypes #1950 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)
• Drop pynwb < 3.1 compatibility code from pynwb_utils #1939 (@claude @CodyCBakerPhD)
• gh-actions: Bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7 #1948 (@dependabot[bot])

📝 Documentation

• Reorganize testing documentation and add file placement guidelines #1786 (@yarikoptic @yarikoptic-gitmate)
• DEVELOPMENT.md: require backward compatible support of new dandi-archive features #1963 (@claude @yarikoptic-gitmate)

Authors: 11

• @Copilot
• @dependabot[bot]
• Amirali Moradniaei (@AtomicGlance)
• Ben Dichter (@bendichter)
• Benjamin Dichter (bdichter@Benjamins-Mac-mini.local)
• Claude (@claude)
• Cody Baker (@CodyCBakerPhD)
• GitMate for @yarikoptic (@yarikoptic-gitmate)
• Heberto Mayorquin (@h-mayorquin)
• Kabilar Gunalan (@kabilar)
• Yaroslav Halchenko (@yarikoptic)