v7.5.0

[davidmurdoch]

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Back from Devcon and our ConsenSys retreat for another release!

Thank you to our contributors @omahs, @MicaiahReid, @tenthirtyone, and @jeffsmale90 for your contributions to this release. We'd also like to thank issue contributors @gnidan, @mxork, @leroldary, @Inphi, @domalaq, @ChristianCoenen, @drortirosh, @seaona, @krzkaczor, and @aashborn.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, open a PR to fix an existing issue, or apply to join our team (we're hiring!) if you really want to get involved.

We've changed 32 files across 9 merged pull requests, tallying 1641 additions and 432 deletions, since our last release.

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This release brings you the long-awaited eth_feeHistory RPC endpoint. Check out the Infura docs on this method if you aren't already up to speed. Give it a try and let us know if you aren't fully gruntled with the feature or if you find any issues with its performance or implementation.

It also brings a few bug fixes, docs updates, and some internal improvements.

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feat: add eth_feeHistory JSON-RPC endpoint (#3351)

Adds eth_feeHistory to the JSON-RPC API. This endpoint returns gas used, baseFeePerGas, and effective reward by array of percentages accounting for gas used for a range of blocks.

Check out the Infura docs on this method if you aren't already up to speed.

Fixes: #1470

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• fix: add an upper limit to # of accounts that can be generated by ganache (#3361)
• fix: add " " after the HTTP/1.1 Response Status-Code (#3404)

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fix: add an upper limit to # of accounts that can be generated by ganache (#3361)

This change logs a warning to the user that performance may be impacted if more than 100,000 accounts are created.

Fixes #736

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fix: add " " after the HTTP/1.1 Response Status-Code (#3404)

This change brings Ganache into strict compliance with the HTTP/1.1 Status-Line specification. Nearly all established HTTP/1.1 response parsers handle HTTP/1.1 Status-Lines that omit the Status-Code trailing space character, but it doesn't hurt to follow the specification strictly.

This change fixes #3400

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• docs: fix typo in fork.username cli description (#3634)
• ci: add @MicaiahReid to CODEOWNERS (#3775)
• test: improve coverage of RPC-JSON Data byteLength argument (#3784)
• chore: remove extra quotes in require-engines test helper (#3713)
• docs: fix typos (#3801)
• docs: fix eth_call interactive docs example (#3774)

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docs: fix typo in fork.username cli description (#3634)

Just fixing a typo in the CLI's --help description for the --fork.username option.

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ci: add @MicaiahReid to CODEOWNERS (#3775)

As described in the title, this change adds @MicaiahReid to the CODEOWNERS file for some files within Ganache.

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test: improve coverage of RPC-JSON Data byteLength argument (#3784)

This change adds basic tests ensuring the byteLength argument passed to the RPC-JSON Data constructor and factory method are respected internally, and that they are overridden by the argument passed to toString() and toBuffer().

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chore: remove extra quotes in require-engines test helper (#3713)

Just fixing a typo in a test helper.

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docs: fix typos (#3801)

Just fixes some typos.

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docs: fix eth_call interactive docs example (#3774)

Our not-yet-published-but-available-for-use interactive JSON-RPC documentation had a bug in the example for eth_call, which is resolved with this fix.

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• fix: add an upper limit to # of accounts that can be generated by ganache #3361 fix: add an upper limit to # of accounts that can be generated by ganache (@tenthirtyone)
• fix: add " " after the HTTP/1.1 Response Status-Code #3404 fix: add " " after the HTTP/1.1 Response Status-Code (@davidmurdoch)
• docs: fix typo in fork.username cli description #3634 docs: fix typo in fork.username cli description (@davidmurdoch)
• ci: add @MicaiahReid to CODEOWNERS #3775 ci: add @MicaiahReid to CODEOWNERS (@MicaiahReid)
• test: improve coverage of RPC-JSON Data byteLength argument #3784 test: improve coverage of RPC-JSON Data byteLength argument (@jeffsmale90)
• chore: remove extra quotes in require-engines test helper #3713 chore: remove extra quotes in require-engines test helper (@davidmurdoch)
• docs: fix typos #3801 docs: fix typos (@omahs)
• docs: fix eth_call interactive docs example #3774 docs: fix eth_call interactive docs example (@MicaiahReid)
• feat: add eth_feeHistory JSON-RPC endpoint #3351 feat: add eth_feeHistory JSON-RPC endpoint (@tenthirtyone)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Add flag for starting ganache in detached mode (#1001)
• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• Add eip-155 support (#880)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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This discussion was created from the release v7.5.0.