Pass requiredAllowesEmptyStrings flags (based on options.removeEmptyStrings) into SimpleSchema's namedContext.validate function.
Update Utilities to take flag blankStringsAllowed. Update package.json, smart.json and Changelog to represent new fixes and version number.
Pass removeEmptyStrings onto SimpleSchema (priyadarshy/meteor-simple-schema.git) to allow required fields to allow "" to pass validation.
Update package.json.
Bump version number.
Pull remote changes.