v6.3.1

• #813 - don't use Symbol internally to avoid breaking express-validator reuse

v6.3.0

• #476 - Bring notEmpty validator back
• #772, #776 - Add missing pt-BR mobile phone locale
• #794, #795 - Make all properties available in all union branches of ValidationError

v6.2.0

• #500, #638, #751 - Bail validation when there's an error
• #761 - Add min/max options to isArray() validator
• #693, #742, #765 - Fix typing for optional when using checkSchema
• #762 - Don't log a validation error when using .if() with another validation chain
• #745 - Upgrade Lodash to fix vulnerability and validator to v11.1
• #748 - Correct typo in a validator name in the docs

v6.1.1

• #729 - Fix optional data being sanitized

v6.1.0

• #439, #655, #658 - Conditional validation support
• #625 - Improve field selection performance massively
• #728, #731 - Fix imperative validations (await body('email').isEmail().run(req)) not generating any errors
• #730, #733 - docs: some improvements to the "Running imperatively" page

v6.0.1

• #726 - Fix TypeScript declarations incorrectly importing validator module

v6.0.0

BREAKING CHANGES 💥

• Legacy APIs (req.check(), req.checkBody(), req.filter(), etc) have been removed;
• require('express-validator/check') and require('express-validator/filter) are now deprecated. Instead, just use require('express-validator');
• #616, #722 - Validators and sanitizers will now run in the order they are specified, instead of always running sanitizers first, then validators;
• #592, #641, #632, #630, #580, #651, #711 - non-string values will now be sanitized;
• Node.js version 6 is no longer supported. Use version 8 or newer.

New features ✨

• #698 - express-validator is now written in TypeScript!
• #407 - express-validator now works with other libraries like Restify or similar;
• #679, #713 - Add a toArray() sanitizer;
• Validations can now be run imperatively with check('field').run(req). See docs.

Other changes 🐛

• #590, #620, #643, #645, #706, #712 - Overall better docs
• #572, #573, #691 - Don't reject promises with non-Error
• #723 - Update validator to v11.0.0

v5.3.1

• #673 - check: add missing ; that would cause TypeScript to throw syntax errors

v5.3.0

• #579 - docs: major overhaul, and a new home!
  See https://express-validator.github.io for them, with version selection available ✨
• #473, #570 - check: add checkNull and checkFalsy options to exists validator
• #568, #577 - filter: allow including optionals when using matchedData()
• #584 - check: don't call sanitizers twice
• #593 - check: don't fail when custom validator returns nothing
• #598 - check: persist empty validations as the request location itself
• Upgrade validator to v10.4.0

v5.2.0

express-validator has hit 3k stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 and is its own org 🏢 on GitHub!

• #458, #531, #563 - check: fix wildcard field selection not validating every array entry
• #564 - check: allow exists validator to have message set in schemas
• #565 - check: persist values sanitized within oneOf()
• Update validator to v10.1.0