Changelog

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.

[4.0.1-alpha.1]

Added

• If the response error was execution reverted, raise ContractExecutionError and pass the response error to it in order to be set as innerError (this innerError will be decoded at web3-eth-contract if its ABI was provided according to EIP-838). (#5434)
• registerPlugin method to Web3Context (#5393)
• Web3PluginBase exported abstract class (#5393)
• Web3EthPluginBase exported abstract class (#5393)

Changed

• Default value for API generic for Web3ContextObject from any to unknown (#5393)
• Default value for API generic for Web3ContextInitOptions from any to unknown (#5393)
• Added validation when defaultHardfork and defaultCommon.hardfork are different in web3config
• Added validation when defaultChain and defaultCommon.basechain are different in web3config
• Added a new configuration variable enableExperimentalFeatures. (#5481)

[4.0.1-alpha.2]

Fixed

• Make the request method of EIP1193Provider class, compatible with EIP 1193 (#5591)

[4.0.1-alpha.3]

Changed

• Updated dependencies (#5725)

[4.0.1-alpha.4]

Changed

• tsc compiled files moved to lib/ directory from dist/ (#5739)

[4.0.1-alpha.5]

Changed

• web3.js dependencies (#5757)

[4.0.1-rc.0]

Added

• Added rpc exception codes following eip-1474 as an experimental feature (if useRpcCallSpecification at enableExperimentalFeatures is true) (#5525)
• Added support of safe and finalized block tags (#5823)

[4.0.1-rc.1]

Added

• Added hybrid build (ESM and CJS) of library (#5904)
• Added source files (#5956)

Changed

• If a transaction object with a data property is passed to txInputOptionsFormatter, it will now be replaced with input (#5915)
• The types TransactionTypeParser and TransactionBuilder are now utilizing the type Transaction for the transaction object. (#5993)
• No need for polyfilling nodejs net and fs modules (#5978)
• Removed IPC provider dependency, IPC path is no longer viable provider. If you wanna use IPC, please install web3-providers-ipc and instantiate provider yourself (#5978)

Removed

• getConfig method from Web3Config class, config is now public and accessible using Web3Config.config (#5950)
• Error param in the messageListener in subscription was removed (triggered by .on('data') or .on('message')) to properly support all providers. (#6082)

[4.0.1-rc.2]

Changed

• Replaced Buffer for Uint8Array (#6004)

[4.0.1]

Release Notes:

Detailed List of change logs are mentioned under previous 4.x alpha and RC releases.

Documentation: Web3.js documentation Web3 API Migration Guide from 1.x

[Unreleased]

Fixed

• Fixed Batch requests erroring out on one request (#6164)