v7.0.0 Release Plan

This is a release plan of the next major release of express-validator.

Potentially breaking bug fixes

• Passing an Array to toString() should not return just the first item #791, #755, #704 (PR: #1002)
• Improve oneOf:
  • Error messages #956 (PR: #1022)
  • Wildcards #950

New features

• Pluggable validators #1077 (PR: #1079)
• Custom validators:
  • Multiple error messages #951
• Allow to bail out on the first element failing when using bail() with wildcards #906

Others

• Remove deprecated APIs (filter, old-check, sanitize) (PR: #993)

I selected just some of the most recent and requested features/fixes, but this list is supposed to change so proposals are welcome!

/cc @gustavohenke Can you create a branch (v7.0.0-features?) on this repo to use as the base for PRs? When we merge it we should use Rebase and merge instead of Squash and merge so that we can track of those breaking commits better. It would definitely simplify development.

[fedeci]

I’ll see how I can backport it! Eventually we can release beta versions containing stable changes for v7.

[gustavohenke]

There you go for the branch: https://github.com/express-validator/express-validator/tree/v7-features I suppose also change the base of #993?

Without thinking too much about the proposed features and breaking changes, what I can say at the moment is… yeah, let’s definitely change the behaviour of toString.

Thanks for organising all of this!