v4.8.0

[luu-alex]

[4.8.0]

Changed

web3-eth-abi

• Dependencies updated

web3-eth-accounts

• Dependencies updated

Fixed

web3-eth-contract

• Fix an issue with smart contract function overloading (Fix an issue with smart contract function overloading #6922)

web3-utils

• fixed toHex incorrectly hexing Uint8Arrays and Buffer (toHex is not supporting passing Uint8Array #6957)
• fixed isUint8Array not returning true for Buffer (toHex is not supporting passing Uint8Array #6957)

Added

web3-eth-contract

• Added a console warning in case of an ambiguous call to a solidity method with parameter overloading (Show warning for ambiguous Solidity method call #6942)
• Added contract.deploy(...).decodeData(...) and contract.decodeMethodData(...) that decode data based on the ABI (Add contract.decodeMethodData(...) method to decode contract methods and to contract.deploy(...).decodeData(...) decode constructor parameters  #6950)

web3-eth

• method getBlock now includes properties of eip 4844, 4895, 4788 when returning block (eth.getBlock() JSON Fields Unavailable in v4.6, yet Available in v1.9 #6933)
• update type withdrawalsSchema, blockSchema and blockHeaderSchema schemas to include properties of eip 4844, 4895, 4788 (eth.getBlock() JSON Fields Unavailable in v4.6, yet Available in v1.9 #6933)

web3-types

• Added signature to type AbiFunctionFragment (Fix an issue with smart contract function overloading #6922)
• update type Withdrawals, block and BlockHeaderOutput to include properties of eip 4844, 4895, 4788 (eth.getBlock() JSON Fields Unavailable in v4.6, yet Available in v1.9 #6933)

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This discussion was created from the release v4.8.0.