FluentValidation 9.0.0-preview5

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This is a prerelease version of FluentValidation.
There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details. 
dotnet add package FluentValidation --version 9.0.0-preview5
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package FluentValidation -Version 9.0.0-preview5
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="FluentValidation" Version="9.0.0-preview5" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="FluentValidation" Version="9.0.0-preview5" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="FluentValidation" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add FluentValidation --version 9.0.0-preview5
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: FluentValidation, 9.0.0-preview5"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#:package FluentValidation@9.0.0-preview5
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=FluentValidation&version=9.0.0-preview5&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=FluentValidation&version=9.0.0-preview5&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Tool

A validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface to construct strongly-typed validation rules.

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9.5.4 7,095,307 4/5/2021
9.5.3 4,074,697 3/15/2021
9.5.2 2,022,246 3/8/2021
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9.4.0 3,117,594 1/14/2021
9.3.0 14,996,562 11/10/2020
9.3.0-preview3 39,809 10/19/2020
9.3.0-preview2 152,729 9/15/2020
9.3.0-preview1 13,532 8/26/2020
9.2.2 7,193,554 9/20/2020
9.2.1 32,169 9/19/2020
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9.1.1 673,796 8/8/2020
9.1.0 297,315 8/8/2020
9.0.1 5,502,554 7/14/2020
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9.0.0-preview2 32,492 2/21/2020
9.0.0-preview1 100,453 2/8/2020
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8.0.0-preview3 24,567 7/13/2018
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7.3.1 346,348 12/13/2017
7.3.0 124,707 12/13/2017
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7.0.1 95,034 5/23/2017
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6.4.0 1,049,812 3/3/2017
6.4.0-rc4 146,545 2/13/2017
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FluentValidation 9 is a major release. Please read the upgrade notes at https://docs.fluentvalidation.net/en/latest/upgrading-to-9.html

Changes in 9.0.0:
* Removed support for netstandard1.1 and netstandard1.6
* Removed support for end-of-life .NET Core versions (2.2 and 3.0). LTS versions are supported (2.1 and 3.1)
* Default email validation mode now uses the same logic as ASP.NET Core. Previous regex behaviour is opt-in.
* TestHelper advanced mode now has more features (see https://docs.fluentvalidation.net/en/latest/testing.html#advanced-test-extensions)
* Equal/NotEqual now perform ordinal comparison when used with string properties
* Severity can now be set dynamically with a callback
* Removed WithLocalizedMessage (WithMessage that takes a callback is the replacement)
* Removed ResourceName from ValidationFailure
* Removed ResourceName and ResourceType from IStringSource.
* Removed SetCollectionValidator which was deprecated in 8.0
* Additional overload of OnAnyFailure that can receive a collection of validation failures
* Remove DisplayAttribute integration and reference to DataAnnotations.
* ComparisonProperty placeholder is now formatted like PropertyName
* Translations of default error messages into other languages are now lazily-loaded
* Added Slovenian translations of default error messages.
* Added Icelandic translations of default error messages.
* Added WithMessageArgument to the test helpers.
* Add additional overload of SetValidator that takes a Func that receives the current property value.
* ASP.NET Core: FluentValidationModelValidatorProvider and FluentValidationModelValidator are now public.
* Work around a bug in ASP.NET Core's integration testing components that can cause ConfigureServices to run multiple times.
* SourceLink integration.
* {CollectionIndex} placeholder can now be accessed in child validators.
* Additional ValidationException constructor that allows using both the default message and a custom one together.
* ScalePrecisionValidator algorithm now matches SQL Server.
* Additional overload of the When methods that contain the validation context.

Full release notes can be found at https://github.com/FluentValidation/FluentValidation/blob/master/Changelog.txt