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.