v1.5.0

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Added

• London transaction support (EIP1559 #4155)
• RPC support eth_feehistory call (eth_feeHistory (EIP 1559) #4191)

Changed

• Grammar fix (Possible typo in docs #4088) and updated Swarm ([Docs] Fixed a broken link #4151)and Whisper doc links ([Docs] update web3-shh.rst : whisper-overview broken link #4170)
• Removed deprecation notice for HttpProvider (Removing deprecation notice for HttpProvider #4008)
• Nonce added to send options in documentation and types (undocumented behavior of contract-send: #4052)
• Updated Solidity example to modern syntax ([Docs] Updated solidity example to modern syntax #4147)
• Changing web3 connection example from lets to const (Typically you will have only one Web3 connection, use const #3967)
• Updated the documentation for the transaction object to include EIP-2718 and EIP-1559 options (Update docs 2 #4188)

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An example of signing an EIP-1559 transaction with web3-eth-accounts

import Web3 from 'web3';

const web3 = new Web3(Web3.givenProvider || 'http://localhost:8545');

const txObject = {
    to: '0x...',
    value: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('0.1', 'ether')),
    gas: web3.utils.toHex(21000),
    maxFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('1.5', 'gwei')),
    maxPriorityFeePerGas: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei('.5', 'gwei'))
 };

 web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction(txObject, privateKey, (err, signed) => {...});

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This discussion was created from the release v1.5.0.