All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Released with 1.0.0-beta.37 code base.
websocket
dependency fixed (#2971, #2976)requestOptions
added toWebsocketProvider
(#2979)- Node >= v8.0.0 support (#2938)
- localStorage support detection added (#3031)
- getNetworkType method extended with Görli testnet (#3095)
- supportsSubscriptions method added to providers (#3116)
- Add
eth.getChainId
method (#3113) - Minified file added to web3 package (#3131)
- The transaction confirmation workflow can now be configured (#3130)
- Additional parameters for accounts.signTransaction added (docs) (#3141)
- Emit
connected
event on subscription creation (#3028) - TypeScript type definitions added for all modules (#3132)
- Bloom filters added to web3.utils (#3137)
- Fix allow
0
as a validfromBlock
ortoBlock
filter param (#1100) - Fix randomHex returning inconsistent string lengths (#1490)
- Fix make isBN minification safe (#1777)
- Fix incorrect references to BigNumber in utils.fromWei and utils.toWei error messages (#2468)
- Fix error incorrectly thrown when receipt.status is
null
(#2183) - Fix incorrectly populating chainId param with
net_version
when signing txs (#2378) - regeneratorRuntime error fixed (#3058)
- Fix accessing event.name where event is undefined (#3014)
- fixed Web3Utils toHex() for Buffer input (#3021)
- Fix bubbling up tx signing errors (#2063, #3105)
- HttpProvider: CORS issue with Firefox and Safari (#2978)
- Ensure the immutability of the
tx
object passed to functionsignTransaction
(#2190) - Gas check fixed (#2381)
- Signing issues #1998, #2033, and #1074 fixed (#3125)
- Fix hexToNumber and hexToNumberString prefix validation (#3086)
- The receipt will now returned on a EVM error (this got removed on beta.18) (#3129)
- Fixes transaction confirmations with the HttpProvider (#3140)
- Fix perfect gas usage causes tx to error (#3175)
- Fix regenerator runtime error in web3.min.js (#3155)
- Fix TS types for eth.subscribe syncing, newBlockHeaders, pendingTransactions (#3159)
- Improve web3-eth-abi decodeParameters error message (#3134)
- Fix npm installation error for scrypt-shim and websocket (#3210)
eth_requestAccounts
asrequestAccounts
added to web3-eth package (#3219)sha3Raw
andsoliditySha3Raw
added to web3-utils package (#3226)eth_getProof
asgetProof
added to web3-eth package (#3220)BN
andBigNumber
objects are now supported by theabi.encodeParameter(s)
method (#3238)getPendingTransactions
added to web3-eth package (#3239)- Revert instruction handling added which can get activated with the
handleRevert
module property (#3248) - The
receipt
does now exist as property on the error object for transaction related errors (#3259) internalType
added toAbiInput
TS interface inweb3-utils
(#3279)- Agent option added to the
HttpProvider
options (#2980)
eth-lib
dependency updated (0.2.7 => ^0.2.8) (#3242)
- Fix crash when decoding events with identical signatures, differently indexed args (#3272)
- Fix user supplied callback not fired in eth.accounts.signTransaction (#3283)
- Fix minified bundle (#3256)
defaultBlock
property handling fixed (#3247)clearSubscriptions
does no longer throw an error if no running subscriptions do exist (#3246)- callback type definition for
Accounts.signTransaction
fixed (#3280) - fix: export bloom functions on the index.js
- Prefer receipt status to code availability on contract deployment (#3298)
- Görli testnet ENS registry added to the known registries (#3338)
- ENS registry addresses updated (#3353, https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ens-registry-migration-bug-fix-new-features-64379193a5a)
- Add revert reason support to sendSignedTransaction (#3345)
- ENS module extended with the possibility to add a custom registry (#3301)
- Missing ENS Registry methods and Resolver.supportsInterface method added (#3325)
- Add optional gas type to AbiItem typescript definitions (for ABIs generated by Vyper) (#3437)
- Add görli testnet ENS registry to the known registries (#3252)
- Add auto-reconnect option for Websockets (#3092, #1085, #1391, #1558, #1852, #1646)
- Ensure '0x' prefix is existing for Accounts.sign and Accounts.privateKeyToAccount (#3041)
- Repository cleanup (#3443)
- Removed old
docs/_build
folder - Removed old bower and meteor artifacts
- Moved logo assets to own folder
- Moved github assets to own folder
- Remove @types/node from (non-dev) dependency tree (#3965, #3227)
- Removed old
- Please note: Geth v1.9.12 contains a breaking change for
eth_call
that will not default to your first account anymore iffrom
is not set. If a sender is not explicitly defined, theeth_call
will be executed fromaddress(0)
. (#3467)- This was done to avoid the same input behaving differently in different environments. You should never do
eth_call
without explicitly setting a sender. - This means that if you're calling
view
methods that refer to amsg.sender
without explicitly setting afrom
address in your request options, you may see unexpected behavior. - In
web3.js
, thefrom
address can be specified on a per-call basis or by setting thedefaultAccount
property.
- This was done to avoid the same input behaving differently in different environments. You should never do
- Add missing subscription.on('connected') TS type definition (#3319)
- Add missing bignumber.js dependency for TS types (#3386)
- Upgrade swarm-js to 0.1.40 to remove npm vulnerability warning (#3399)
- Upgrade devDeps to resolve security warnings (#3464)
- dtslint 0.4.2 => 3.4.1
- definitelytyped-header-parser 1.0.1 => 3.9.0
- Race-condition when subscribing to historical logs as first client request (#3389)
- Fix crash when using Web-Workers by removing any-promise dependency (#3377 #2211 #1774)
- MaxListenersExceededWarning event emitter warning mitigated (#1648)
- Change CI provider from Travis to Github Actions. (#3468)
- Fix intermittent CI build issues with
dtslint
. (#3479)