NomicFoundation/hardhat hardhat@2.6.8

Hardhat v2.6.8

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This release adds support for solidity 0.8.5–0.8.9. It also:

• Adds the personal_sign RPC method. This makes the signMessage method work with Hardhat in the newer versions of ethers.js (closes #1981)
• Adds a new hardhat_getAutomine method that can be used to get the current setting of interval mining (thanks @sisco0!) (closes #2010)
• Enables solc's metadata by default (thanks @chriseth!)
• The node task now shows a warning when the default accounts are used, explaining that those accounts shouldn't be used in live networks with real value.
• Hardhat now throws an error if a version of solc older than 0.4.11 is used. This didn't work anyway, but the error is more clear now.