web3/web3.js v1.2.8-rc.0

web3.js 1.2.8-rc.0

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Hi!

Features

Alongside some Typescript improvements and patches for the Websocket Provider reconnection logic introduced in 1.2.7, this release contains two larger changes:

• Ethers ABI Coder has received a full version increment, from 4.0.0-beta.3 to 5.0.0-beta.153. Since 2018, Web3 has relied on @ricmoo's great Ethers project to manage encoding and decoding data passed between Web3 and the EVM. This update should allow Web3 to absorb the latest work at Ethers going forward.
• The ENS module now supports ENS's contenthash feature (EIP 1577), which allows you to associate an IPFS or Swarm hash with an ENS domain. There's a nice introduction to content hashes in this ENS medium post. Docs for the newly added methods can be found here.

Added

• Introduce review and release guidelines. (#3460)
• Add EIP-1193 compatible provider to AbstractProvider interface. (#3499)
• Add Typescript definitions for contract methods and call. (#3454)
• Add support for ENS contenthash methods (#3392, #2782)

Changed

• Change CI provider from Travis to Github Actions. (#3468)
• Update web3-eth-abi ABICoder dependency. (#3490)
• Improve code clarity of HttpProvider keepAlive option setting. (#3463)
• Updated type definitions for Web3 HTTP Provider. (#3482)
• Improve code clarity of HttpProvider keepAlive value. (#3463)
• Fix indentation of web3-eth documentation (#3478)

Fixed

• Fix intermittent CI build issues with dtslint. (#3479)
• Fix WSS credentials Base64 encoding (for browser) (#3508)
• Fire provider "error" and/or "end" events when Websocket provider disconnects (#3485)
• Remove web3-eth revert error return types to squash TS compilation errors (#3496)
• Backfill event subscriptions when WS connection dropped across multiple blocks (#3491)
• Stop swallowing errors when WS connection has died after exhausting reconnection attempts (#3492)