v1.10.4

Security

• Updated dependencies (#6731)

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v1.10.4-dev.0

Security

• Updated dependencies (#6731)

v4.4.0

[4.4.0]

Added

web3-eth

• Catch TransactionPollingTimeoutError was added to send transaction events (#6623)

Changed

web3-eth-abi

• Use AbiError instead of Error for errors at web3-eth-abi (#6641).

web3-eth-contract

• Allow the deploy function to accept parameters, even when no ABI was provided to the Contract(#6635)

web3

• Dependencies updated

Fixed

web3-eth-abi

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (#6486)

web3-eth-accounts

• Send Transaction config used to be ignored if the passed common did not have a copy() and the chainId was not provided (#6663)
• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (#6486)

web3-eth-contract

• Fix and error that happen when trying to get past events by calling contract.getPastEvents or contract.events.allEvents(), if there is no matching events. (#6647)
• Fixed: The Contract is not using the context wallet passed if context was passed at constructor. (#6661)

web3-utils

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (#6486)

web3-validator

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (#6486)

v4.3.0

[4.3.0]

Changed

web3-core

• Web3config contractDataInputFill has been defaulted to data, istead of input. (#6622)

web3-eth-contracts

• By default, contracts will fill data instead of input within method calls (#6622)

Added

web3-utils

• SocketProvider now contains public function getPendingRequestQueueSize, getSentRequestsQueueSize and clearQueues (#6479)
• Added safeDisconnect as a SocketProvider method to disconnect only when request queue size and send request queue size is 0 (#6479)
• Add isContractInitOptions method (#6555)

web3

• Added methods (privateKeyToAddress, parseAndValidatePrivateKey, and privateKeyToPublicKey) to web3.eth.accounts (#6620)

Fixed

web3-rpc-methods

• Fix web3-types import #6590 (#6589)

web3-utils

• Fix unecessary array copy when pack encoding (#6553)

v4.2.2

Added

web3-core

• Added isMetaMaskProvider function to check if provider is metamask (#6534)

web3-types

• Interface MetaMaskProvider added and is part of SupportedProviders (#6534)
• gasPrice was added to Transaction1559UnsignedAPI type. (#6539)

Changed

web3

• Dependencies updated

Fixed

web3-errors

• Fixed grammar and spelling in transactionTimeoutHint (#6559)

web3-eth-contract

• Will populate data for transactions in contract for metamask provider instead of input (#6534)

v4.2.1

Fixed

web3-eth-abi

• Bug fix of ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT in ABI (#6535)

Changed

web3-eth-contract

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth-ens

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth-personal

• Dependencies updated

web3

• Dependencies updated

v4.2.0

Added

web3

• Various web3 sub packages has new functions details are in root changelog

web3-eth

• Added ALL_EVENTS and ALL_EVENTS_ABI constants, SendTransactionEventsBase type, decodeEventABI method (#6410)

web3-eth-accounts

• Added public function privateKeyToPublicKey
• Added exporting BaseTransaction from the package (#6493)
• Added exporting txUtils from the package (#6493)

web3-types

• Interface EventLog was added. (#6410)

web3-utils

• As a replacment of the node EventEmitter, a custom EventEmitter has been implemented and exported. (#6398)

Fixed

web3-core

• Fix the issue: "Uncaught TypeError: Class extends value undefined is not a constructor or null #6371". (#6398)

web3-errors

• Added new SchemaFormatError (#6434)

web3-eth

• Ensure provider.supportsSubscriptions exists before watching by subscription (#6440)
• Fixed param sent to checkRevertBeforeSending in sendSignedTransaction
• Fixed defaultTransactionBuilder for value issue (#6509)

web3-eth-abi

• Fix issue with default config with babel (and React): "TypeError: Cannot convert a BigInt value to a number #6187" (#6506)

web3-eth-accounts

• Fixed recover function, v will be normalized to value 0,1 (#6344)

web3-providers-http

• Fix issue lquixada/cross-fetch#78, enabling to run web3.js in service worker (#6463)

web3-providers-ipc

• Fixed bug in chunks processing logic (#6496)

web3-providers-ws

• Fixed bug in chunks processing logic (#6496)

web3-utils

• Fix issue with default config with babel (and React): "TypeError: Cannot convert a BigInt value to a number #6187" (#6506)
• Fixed bug in chunks processing logic (#6496)

web3-validator

• Multi-dimensional arrays are now handled properly when parsing ABIs (#6435)
• Fix issue with default config with babel (and React): "TypeError: Cannot convert a BigInt value to a number #6187" (#6506)
• Validator will now properly handle all valid numeric type sizes: intN / uintN where 8 <= N <= 256 and N % 8 == 0 (#6434)
• Will now throw SchemaFormatError when unsupported format is passed to convertToZod method (#6434)

Changed

web3

• Dependencies updated

web3-core

• defaultTransactionType is now type 0x2 instead of 0x0 (#6282)
• Allows formatter to parse large base fee (#6456)
• The package now uses EventEmitter from web3-utils that works in node envrioment as well as in the browser. (#6398)

web3-eth

• Transactions will now default to type 2 transactions instead of type 0, similar to 1.x version. (#6282)

web3-eth-contract

• The events property was added to the receipt object (#6410)

web3-eth-ens

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth-iban

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth-personal

• Dependencies updated

web3-net

• Dependencies updated

web3-providers-http

• Bump cross-fetch to version 4 (#6463).

web3-rpc-methods

• Dependencies updated

v1.10.3

Security

• web3-eth-accounts: Bumped @ethereumjs dependencies (#6457)

• Updated dependencies (#6491)

v1.10.3-dev.0

Security

• web3-eth-accounts: Bumped @ethereumjs dependencies (#6457)

• Updated dependencies (#6491)

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• legacy ( for v1 releases )
• legacy-dev ( for v1 test/RC releases, this will replace rc tag)

v4.1.2

Fixed

web3

• Fix of incorrect provider warning behavior

web3-eth-accounts

• Fixed "The r and s returned by sign to does not always consist of 64 characters" (#6411)

web3-eth-contract

web3-utils

• soliditySha3() with BigInt support

Added

web3-core

• Added to Web3Config property contractDataInputFill allowing users to have the choice using property data, input or both for contract methods to be sent to the RPC provider when creating contracts. (#6377) (#6400)

web3-eth

• Added to Web3Config property contractDataInputFill allowing users to have the choice using property data, input or both for contract methods to be sent to the RPC provider when creating contracts. (#6377) (#6400)

web3-eth-contract

• Added dataInputFill as a ContractInitOption, allowing users to have the choice using property data, input or both for contract methods to be sent to the RPC provider. (#6355)
• Added to Web3Config property contractDataInputFill allowing users to have the choice using property data, input or both for contract methods to be sent to the RPC provider when creating contracts. (#6377)

web3-types

• add asEIP1193Provider to Web3BaseProvider so every inherited class can have the returned value of request method, fully compatible with EIP-1193. (#6407)

Changed

• Dependencies updated of packages