web3-eth - npm Package Versions

[4.0.0-alpha.0]

Note: Yarn is resolving to some old deprecated package versions for 4.0.0-alpha.0 instead of latest alpha versions. A patch bump is posted so yarn users should use 4.0.1-alpha.0 for testing.

Added

web3-errors

• web3-errors new package is created, it has Web3 Error codes and classes

web3-types

• web3-types new package is created, it provides the common data structures and interfaces for web3 modules

web3-validator

• web3-validator new package is created, it has JSON-Schema compatible validator functionality for Web3

Removed

web3-bzz

• This Package is deprecated

web3-shh

• This Package is deprecated

web3-core-helpers

• This Package is removed, errors are moved to web3-errors package and formatters are moved in web3-core package

web3-core-method

• This Package is removed, and web3-core-method functionality is moved to web3-eth package

web3-core-promieevent

• This Package is removed, and core promi events functionality is moved to web3-core package

web3-core-requestmanager

• This Package is removed, batch requests and request manager functionality is moved to web3-core package

web3-core-subscription

• This Package is removed, and core subscription functionality is moved to web3-core package

Changed

web3

• Passing callbacks to functions is no longer supported, except for event listeners.
• Method extend is deprecated

web3-core

• The function outputBigNumberFormatter in web3-core-helper renamed to outputBigIntFormatter under web3-core
• Removed this.defaultBlock context from inputDefaultBlockNumberFormatter in web3-core-helper and converted to additional parameter
• Removed this.defaultBlock context from inputTransactionFormatter in web3-core-helper and converted to additional parameter

web3-utils

• The following functions soliditySha3 soliditySha3Raw encodePacked now includes type validation and requires type specification, instead of guessing the value type
• The functions soliditySha3, soliditySha3Raw and encodePacked did not support BN; But, now supports BigInt
• The functions flattenTypes and jsonInterfaceMethodToString moved to the web3-eth-abi package
• The function isAddress now includes an optional parameter checkChecksum type boolean
• isBoolean now accept 1, and 0 as valid values to test. Ref: web3-validator

web3-eth-accounts

• create function does not take in the optional parameter entropy
• Wallet.create function doesn't accept entropy param

web3-validator

• isBoolean now accept 1, and 0 as valid values to test.

web3-eth-contract

• Event logs do not support types for indexed properties, but named properties are supported.
• Types for overloaded ABI functions are not yet supported.
• signTransaction will not fill any default values, and it will only sign and return result. For filling default values, use web3-eth package
• recover function's last param is boolean hashed, it is used to indicate if data provided is already hashed or not. By default, this function will assume data is not hashed.
• The Wallet no longer supports address/number indexing. Have to use wallet.get instead.
• Wallet.create function doesn't accept entropy param
• contract.method.send() will resolve to transaction receipt instead of transactionHash. User can use receipt.transactionHash instead.

web3-net

• Package will not support web3.bzz.net and web3.shh.net

web3-eth-iban

• IBAN constructor now has validation checks for indirect/direct iban.
• isDirect, isValid, isIndirect are now also included as static methods.

web3-eth-ens

• setMultihash is not supported in web3-eth-ens 4.x as it's deprecated in ENS public resolver (https://github.com/ensdomains/resolvers/blob/master/contracts/PublicResolver.sol)
• setContent is not supported in web3-eth-ens 4.x as it's deprecated in ENS public resolver (https://github.com/ensdomains/resolvers/blob/master/contracts/PublicResolver.sol)
• getContent is not supported in web3-eth-ens 4.x as it's deprecated in ENS public resolver.
• getMultihash is not supported in web3-eth-ens 4.x as it's deprecated in ENS public resolver.

web3-eth-abi

• internalType was renamed to baseType in all abi types

web3-eth

• givenProvider default value is undefined
• defaultHardfork default value is 'london'
• defaultAccount default value is undefined
• defaultNetworkId default value is undefined
• When sending a transaction, if Ethereum Node does not respond within transactionSendTimeout, throw an Error.

web3-eth-subscribe

• clearSubscriptions Instead of returning true , clearSubscriptions now returns array of subscription's ids

web3-eth-personal

• givenProvider default value is undefined
• currentProvider default value is undefined

[1.3.6]

Changes

• Bump underscore package from 1.9.1 to 1.12.1 (#4051)
• Bump @ensdomains/ens package from ^0.4.5 to ^0.6.0 (#4059)
• Bump ethers package from ^5.0.18 to ^5.1.4 (#4059)

Removes

• Accidental commit (yarn-error.log) (#4062)

[1.3.5]

Added

• GitHub action for running tests for web3-eth2-core and web3-eth2-beaconchain packages (#3892)
• Added description to documentation on how to connect using a remote node provider (#3884)
• Added Security risk warning to docs for web3.utils.soliditySha3 (#3908)
• .nvmrc file using Node.js version v.14.15.1 (#3817)
• Add commitment to semantic versioning since version 1.3.0 and onwards (#3961)

Changed

• Unified babel compiler for web3-eth2-core and web3-eth2-beaconchain (#3892)
• Renamed the tsc script in all packages to compile; updates the corresponding lerna run usage in the main package.json (#3894)
• moved deprecation warnings to postinstall scripts (#3917)
• Upgrade @chainsafe/geth-dev-assistant from 0.1.5 to 0.1.9 (#3950)
• Replaced hardcoded infura link with GitHub Secret for some tests (#3943)
• Bump elliptic from 6.5.3 to 6.5.4 for web3-eth-accounts (#3941)
• Bump elliptic from 6.5.3 to 6.5.4 for web3-bzz (#3940)
• Bump elliptic from 6.5.3 to 6.5.4 for web3-core-requestmanager (#3945)
• Rewrite web3-eth-iban in ES6 (#3955)

[1.3.4]

Changed

• Fixed mutation of inputs to encoding and decoding functions (#3748)
• Fix default value for fromBlock option for logs subscriptions (defaults to latest) (#3883)
• ethjs-signer test (#3876)
• Rename web3-eth2-base to web3-eth2-core and web3-eth2-beacon to web3-eth2-beaconchain (#3833)
• Bump ts-node from version ^8.10.2 to ^9.0.0 (#3856)
• Ran npm audit fix which fixed 4 vulnerabilities (#3856)
• Correct web3-eth2-beaconchain type declarations (#3859) and (#3865)
• Move interfaces IBaseAPISchema and IBaseAPIMethodSchema to index.d.ts for web3-eth2-core (#3878)
• Update dependencies for web3-eth2-core (#3878)

Removed

• Remove notImplemented flag from ETH2 Beacon Chain package methods schema (#3861)
• Removes IETH2BeaconChain interface in favor of exporting a class type: ETH2BeaconChain (#3878)
• Remove index.d.ts files in favor of types.ts for web3-eth2-core and web3-eth2-beaconchain (#3878)
• schema.ts from web3-eth2-core (#3878)
• dtslint npm command from web3-eth2-core and web3-eth2-beaconchain as index.d.ts files were removed (#3878)

Added

• Add ETH2Core class export to index.d.ts for web3-eth2-core (#3878)
• Deprecation of bzz warning (#3872)
• Deprecation of shh warning (#3888)