FluentValidation 8.1.0-preview2

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This is a prerelease version of FluentValidation.
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dotnet add package FluentValidation --version 8.1.0-preview2                
NuGet\Install-Package FluentValidation -Version 8.1.0-preview2                
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="8.1.0-preview2" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add FluentValidation --version 8.1.0-preview2                
#r "nuget: FluentValidation, 8.1.0-preview2"                
#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.
// Install FluentValidation as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=FluentValidation&version=8.1.0-preview2&prerelease

// Install FluentValidation as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=FluentValidation&version=8.1.0-preview2&prerelease                

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

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FluentValidation 8 is a major release. Please read the upgrade notes at https://fluentvalidation.net/upgrading-to-8

Changes in 8.1:
* Add format support in message placeholders.
* Added support for overriding indexers for collection rules.
* Allow error codes to be used to override localization key in the Language Manager.
* Additional error details are now shown in the ShouldNotHaveValidationErrorFor test extension.
* Conditions defined with root-level When/WhenAsync/Unless/UnlessAsync are now only executed once (instead of once for each rule).
* Support Otherwise method chained from root-level When/WhenAsync/Unless/UnlessAsync.
* Minor wording changes to default English error messages.

Changes in 8.0:
* Support validating only specific properties by path.
* Added OnFailure method
* Deprecated RuleFor(..).SetCollectionValidator in favour of RuleForEach(...).SetValidator
* IStringSource.GetString now takes a validation context instead of a model instance.
* Introduce PropertyValidatorOptions in order to clean up the IPropretyValidator interface.
* Moved the legacy ValidatorAttribute and AttributedValidatorFactory into a separate FluentValidation.Attributes package.
* Remove the pre-7.0 localization mechanism
* Remove the pre-7.0 methods for custom validation
* Removed many other deprecated methods

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