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Step 1 of #667: the vendored 0.6 schemas move from the 0.6.dev4 pre-release to 0.6rc0, the latest tag and release on ome/ngff-spec.

What changes in the schemas

Sixteen of the nineteen files differ only by version string. Three change substantively:

  • coordinate_transformations.schema adds the projectAxis transform, and requires inputAxes and outputAxes on every byDimension item.
  • image.schema makes input and output required on multiscale-level coordinateTransformations, and widens their description to named systems in the same document or in a child labels group.
  • scene.schema gains a version property.

The same release also unifies input and output to the object form and drops the string form. Neither port ever read the string form, so nothing changes there.

projectAxis is not modelled here. Whether it stays in the schema is an open question upstream (see the #667 thread), and a document using it fails the reader today exactly as it did before this PR.

Why the on-disk version tag moves with the schemas

_version.schema is an enum with a single value, and image.schema requires ome.version to match it. Both ports currently stamp 0.6.dev4 into every 0.6 store. With the rc0 schemas that tag no longer validates, so the tag moves too.

V06_ONDISK_VERSION is now 0.6rc0 in both ports, defined once and used by every writer (_write_root_ome_attrs in Python, buildRootAttributes in TypeScript). Python now exports it from the package root, as TypeScript already did. NgffVersion.V06dev4 stays a supported version: stores written while 0.6 was a draft remain readable.

Two documents the writer produced that rc0 rejects

Both found by review on this PR, both fixed here in both ports.

byDimension items were written with input_axes and output_axes. The spec and the rc0 schema spell them inputAxes and outputAxes, and rc0 requires them. The Python writer serializes dataclasses with asdict, so field names are the wire format, and every other field of these models is already camelCase; the two snake_case fields were the outlier. They are renamed in the Python dataclass and the TypeScript interface, which is a breaking change to ByDimensionItem as shipped in py-v0.43.0 and ts-v0.29.0. Both spellings are read, so a store written by those releases still loads, with a test per port.

A multiscale-level transform without input or output was serialized as is. rc0 requires both to name a coordinate system. The writers now refuse such a model with a message naming the transform and the missing side, rather than produce a store their own validated reader rejects. Upgrades are unaffected: the 0.6 conversion carries no multiscale-level transforms over from 0.4 or 0.5.

Existing 0.6.dev4 stores

before after
read ok ok
validate=True passes warns that the tag is superseded and validates the rest of the document with the tag substituted
upgrade_ome_zarr(store, version="0.6") in place no-op rewrites the tag, chunks untouched

The second row is the reader only. The schema API validate() is unchanged and rejects the tag as given, since it checks a document as it is. The reader knows more: a store tagged with an earlier 0.6 pre-release differs from a valid one in that string alone, so failing on it would fail exactly the stores the upgrade below exists for, including under upgrade_ome_zarr(..., validate=True). The warning names the upgrade. A defect elsewhere in such a document is still reported.

The third row is the migration path. The upgrade no-op check used to collapse every 0.6 pre-release to the API version 0.6 before comparing, so re-tagging a dev4 store was impossible: validation rejected it and upgrade declined to touch it. It now compares the on-disk string to the tag the target would write. In TypeScript that means reading the raw ome.version, since detectVersion collapses the family. Both ports test the re-tag, Python with and without validation, and the schema-level rejection.

Verification

Python: 115 passed in test_coordinate_transformations.py and test_displacement_field.py after the rename, and 75 passed across test_upgrade_ome_zarr.py, test_cli_upgrade.py, test_convert_ome_zarr_version.py, test_ngff_validation.py and test_structural_validation_reader.py, including the two new tests. prek run --all-files passes; it trims trailing whitespace the upstream coordinate_transformations.schema carries.

TypeScript: 589 passed, deno check, deno lint and deno fmt --check clean on the touched files.

Merge order

Independent of #611 and #660: this touches neither structural_validation.py nor the validation docs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for OME-Zarr 0.6 release candidate 0.6rc0.
    • Added projectAxis coordinate transformations for dropped or inserted axes.
    • Updated transformation fields to inputAxes and outputAxes, with legacy-name compatibility.
    • Writers now produce Zarr v3 stores by default.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Earlier 0.6 prerelease stores are retagged to 0.6rc0 without altering image data.
    • Improved validation and warnings for outdated version tags and incomplete transformations.

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The PR changes the OME-Zarr 0.6 on-disk version from 0.6.dev4 to 0.6rc0. It updates Python and TypeScript version handling, schemas, coordinate transformations, serialization, upgrade behavior, validation, and tests.

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OME-Zarr 0.6 release-candidate alignment

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Version and schema contracts
py/ngff_zarr/_supported_versions.py, py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.6/schemas/*, ts/src/types/*
Adds 0.6rc0 to supported versions. Updates the bundled schemas, scene metadata rules, projectAxis, and camelCase axis fields.
Metadata and serialization flow
py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py, py/ngff_zarr/v06/zarr_metadata.py, ts/src/schemas/*, ts/src/types/*, ts/src/utils/v06_metadata.ts
Serializers write 0.6rc0, validate coordinate-system references, and use inputAxes and outputAxes. Readers accept legacy snake_case metadata.
Upgrade and validation flow
py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py, ts/src/io/upgrade_ome_zarr_common.ts, py/test/*, ts/test/*, py/examples/*
Upgrade logic compares exact on-disk tags and retags older 0.6 prerelease stores. Tests cover version handling, metadata validation, compatibility, and data preservation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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The upgrade behavior can break supported remote-store migrations by rejecting remote destinations, causing upgrade operations to fail in production. The PR is not merge-ready until remote output handling is restored or the supported behavior is explicitly changed and documented.

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  Store->>UpgradeLogic: Read raw root version tag
  UpgradeLogic->>UpgradeLogic: Compare source tag with target tag
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Use absolute imports for the changed _supported_versions imports.

The changed imports use package-relative syntax, but the repository requires absolute imports for Python files under py/**/*.py.

  • py/ngff_zarr/__init__.py#L7-L7: import SUPPORTED_VERSIONS and V06_ONDISK_VERSION from ngff_zarr._supported_versions.
  • py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py#L26-L26: import V06_ONDISK_VERSION and NgffVersion from ngff_zarr._supported_versions.
  • py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py#L52-L52: import V06_ONDISK_VERSION and NgffVersion from ngff_zarr._supported_versions.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/spec/0.6/schemas/coordinate_transformations.schema`:
- Around line 370-388: Update ByDimensionItem.from_dict and its serialization to
accept the schema’s camelCase inputAxes and outputAxes fields, allowing numeric
values including non-integers such as 0.5 rather than requiring integer-only
input_axes/output_axes. Align the parser and schema constraints so validated
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In `@py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py`:
- Around line 532-536: Normalize a legacy 0.6.dev4 ome.version to 0.6rc0 before
the validate=True reader validates the store, while preserving existing
retagging behavior in the upgrade flow around _ondisk_version_for and
same_store. Add a pytest case covering upgrade of a 0.6.dev4 store to 0.6rc0
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- Around line 759-763: Extend the test named “the 0.6 pre-release tags are
supported versions” to explicitly verify that isV06Version("0.6.dev4") remains
true, while preserving the existing 0.6rc0 assertions.

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py/ngff_zarr/to_ngff_zarr.py lines 26-26, and py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py
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The vendored 0.6 schemas move from the 0.6.dev4 pre-release to 0.6rc0, the
latest tag on ome/ngff-spec. Sixteen of the nineteen files differ only by
version string. `coordinate_transformations.schema` adds the `projectAxis`
transform, `image.schema` makes `input` and `output` required on
multiscale-level transformations, and `scene.schema` gains a `version`.

`_version.schema` is an enum of the single value the release carries, and
`image.schema` requires `ome.version` to match it. So the tag both ports
write into a 0.6 store moves with the schemas: `V06_ONDISK_VERSION` is now
`0.6rc0`, defined once per port and used by every writer. `0.6.dev4` stays a
supported version so stores written while 0.6 was a draft remain readable.

Such a store no longer passes `validate()`, since its tag is not the one the
schema accepts. `upgrade_ome_zarr(store, version="0.6")` is the way to
re-tag it in place: its no-op check now compares the on-disk string to the
tag the target would write, rather than collapsing every 0.6 pre-release to
the same API version, which made that request a no-op and left no way to
update the tag.

`projectAxis` is not modelled here; whether it stays in the schema is open
upstream.

Refs fideus-labs#667.
…hema accepts

Two documents the writer produced were rejected by the rc0 schemas that
this branch vendors.

A byDimension item was written with `input_axes` and `output_axes`. The
spec and the rc0 schema spell them `inputAxes` and `outputAxes`, and rc0
requires them. The Python writer serializes dataclasses with `asdict`, so
field names are the wire format, and every other field of these models is
already camelCase; the two snake_case fields were the outlier. They are
renamed in both ports. Both spellings are read, so a store written by
ngff-zarr 0.43.0 or @fideus-labs/ngff-zarr 0.29.0 still loads.

BREAKING CHANGE: `ByDimensionItem.input_axes` and `.output_axes` are now
`inputAxes` and `outputAxes`, in the Python dataclass and the TypeScript
interface.

A multiscale-level transform without `input` or `output` was serialized as
is, and rc0 requires both to name a coordinate system. The writers now
refuse such a model with a message naming the transform and the missing
side, rather than produce a store their own validated reader rejects.
Upgrades are unaffected: the 0.6 conversion carries no multiscale-level
transforms over from 0.4 or 0.5.
The bundled 0.6 schemas accept one tag, the pre-release they were published
with. A store written while 0.6 was a draft differs from a valid store in
that string alone, and `upgrade_ome_zarr(store, version="0.6")` exists to
rewrite it. With `validate=True` the upgrade read that store before
retagging and failed on the tag, so the migration path refused to validate
exactly the stores it is for.

The validating 0.6 reader now reports a superseded tag with a warning that
names the upgrade, and validates the rest of the document with the tag
substituted. The schema API `validate()` is unchanged and still rejects the
tag as given. A defect elsewhere in the document is still reported. The
retag test now runs with and without validation.

Also gives the spec spelling of the byDimension axis keys precedence over the
legacy one when a document carries both.
The validating reader substituted any 0.6-family tag that differed from the
vendored one, so a store tagged by a later spec release would have been
validated as this one. The substitution now applies to the tags earlier
ngff-zarr releases wrote, listed in one place; any other tag is checked as
given.
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vboussot force-pushed the feat/ome-zarr-0.6rc0 branch from efa1b55 to e8dec2a Compare August 24, 2026 22:26

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549-550: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Restore remote output support for upgrade_ome_zarr.

Line 550 passes a remote output URL directly to to_ome_zarr(). That writer calls normalize_store(), which rejects remote URLs and store objects. Therefore, an upgrade from one remote URL to another now fails despite storage_options documenting remote input and output support. In-place remote upgrades also reach local-only zarrista write helpers.

Keep a remote-capable write path for remote upgrades. Do not route remote outputs through the local-directory-only writer.

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In `@py/ngff_zarr/upgrade_ome_zarr.py` around lines 549 - 550, Update
upgrade_ome_zarr around the to_ome_zarr call to detect remote output targets and
use a remote-capable write path instead of passing them to the
local-directory-only writer. Preserve storage_options for remote input and
output, including in-place remote upgrades, while retaining the existing local
path for local outputs.
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- Around line 549-550: Update upgrade_ome_zarr around the to_ome_zarr call to
detect remote output targets and use a remote-capable write path instead of
passing them to the local-directory-only writer. Preserve storage_options for
remote input and output, including in-place remote upgrades, while retaining the
existing local path for local outputs.

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thewtex merged commit 2c7bfd1 into fideus-labs:main Aug 25, 2026
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vboussot added a commit to vboussot/ngff-zarr that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
fideus-labs#677 spells the byDimension axis lists inputAxes and outputAxes, which is
what the 0.6rc0 schema declares, and dropped the snake_case form from the
model. The ITK conversion still built and read input_axes and
output_axes, so ByDimensionItem raised TypeError on construction in
Python and the TypeScript port did not type-check.

The reader keeps accepting the snake_case spelling on the wire for stores
ngff-zarr 0.43.0 wrote; only the model fields are renamed here.
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