Release/1.9.0

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Fixed

• Fixed skipped ws-ganache tests (wn3/wn3.js #5759)
• Fixed "provider started to reconnect error" in web3-provider-ws (handled "provider started to reconnect error" #5820)
• Fixed Error: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits (Add optional param hex to getTransaction and getBlock. #5845)
• Fixed types for packages which have default exports but not declared default export in .d.ts (fix types default export (#5852) #5866)
• Fixed Transaction type by adding missing properties (Nikos/5821/transaction type fix #5856)

Changed

• Add optional hexFormat param to getTransaction and getBlock that accepts the value 'hex' (Add optional param hex to getTransaction and getBlock. #5845)
• utils.toNumber and utils.hexToNumber can now return the large unsafe numbers as BigInt, if true was passed to a new optional parameter called bigIntOnOverflow (Add optional param hex to getTransaction and getBlock. #5845)
• Updated @types/bn.js dependency to 5.1.1 in web3, web3-core and web3-eth-contract as reason mentioned in Bump @types/bn.js dependency to 5.1.1 #5640 (dependencies updates #5885)
• Add description to error for failed connection on websocket (Nikos/5835/websocket provider keeps important error message back #5884)

Security

• Updated dependencies (dependencies updates #5885)

[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 4470601938

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• 273 unchanged lines in 7 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage increased (+2.4%) to 74.975%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
packages/web3-core-requestmanager/src/jsonrpc.js	2	64.29%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/formatters.js	9	83.86%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js	31	1.47%
packages/web3-utils/src/soliditySha3.js	34	3.43%
packages/web3-utils/src/index.js	40	40.3%
packages/web3-utils/src/utils.js	46	10.39%
packages/web3-eth-accounts/src/index.js	111	22.94%

Totals
Change from base Build 4469674625:	2.4%
Covered Lines:	3336
Relevant Lines:	4196

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💛 - Coveralls

[jdevcs]

As part of the RC process, following test installations are performed in other projects and running their tests to see if everything.

• installs properly
• builds
• tests pass

(This list will be actively edited)

Project	Desc	Status
oz-test-helpers	Test utils. Subset of their suite is web3 contracts
synthetix	~1000 units

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synthetix

 4443 passing (1h)
  71 pending
  1 failing

  1) Contract: SupplySchedule
       functions and modifiers
         Given inflation amount of 800,000 - mintable supply
           should calculate the mintable supply as 0 within 1st week of inflation start date:
     Error: Time parameter
     
     

OZ

275 passing (16s)
  3 failing

  1) expectRevert
       expectRevert
         rejects a revert with incorrect expected reason:

      AssertionError: expected 'VM Exception while processing transac…' to equal 'Call to revert'
      + expected - actual

      -VM Exception while processing transaction: revert Call to revert
      +Call to revert
      
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/src/expectRevert.test.js:34:35)

  2) expectRevert
       assertion
         rejects an outOfGas:
     AssertionError: expect.fail()
      at assertFailure (test/helpers/assertFailure.js:9:10)
      at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
      at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/src/expectRevert.test.js:123:7)

  3) expectRevert
       outOfGas
         accepts an outOfGas:

      Wrong kind of exception received
      + expected - actual

      -Transaction: 0x2ac43c339baaec32fc43c4d3b955696f738613626c504c7715e69c7a616e4ead exited with an error (status 0) after consuming all gas.
      -     Please check that the transaction:
      -     - satisfies all conditions set by Solidity `assert` statements.
      -     - has enough gas to execute the full transaction.
      -     - does not trigger an invalid opcode by other means (ex: accessing an array out of bounds).
      +out of gas
      
      at expectException (src/expectRevert.js:20:30)
      at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
      at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/src/expectRevert.test.js:153:7)

     

These external repos test cases output is same like performed in last few releases.

[jdevcs]

merging 1.x into this release branch because #5932 merged in 1.x, for clean reference to release branch refer to 1 previous commit or v1.9.0 tag

[jdevcs]

we didn't do another RC due to #5932 because its minor change in github CI.