web3-eth 2.0.0-alpha.1

web3.js 2.0.0-alpha.1

on Node.js Yarn

This release contains several stability improvements and smaller additions.

Added

• Length check of the PK added to the fromPrivateKey method of the Account model (#2928)
• WebsocketProvider options extended with requestOptions and origins (#2938, #2995)
• changed listener added to Contract event subscriptions (#2960)

Changed

• fsevents bumbed to v1.2.9 (#2951)
• websocket dependency changed to github fork (#2995)

Fixed

• miner.startMining fixed (#2877)
• Subscription type definitions fixed (#2919)
• ContractOptions type definitions corrected (#2939)
• Scrypt compatibility with older and newer nodejs versions fixed (#2952)
• Encryption of the V3Keystore fixed (#2950)
• Provider timeout fixed and Maps are used now to handle subscriptions (#2955)
• stripHexPrefix fixed (#2989)
• BatchRequest error handling fixed for callbacks (#2993)
• reconnected event and reconnection delay option added to WebsocketProvider (#2994)
• clearSubscriptions fixed (#3007)

Thanks to all the involved contributors!