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