release 4.4.0

[luu-alex]

[4.4.0]

Added

web3-eth

• Catch TransactionPollingTimeoutError was added to send transaction events (Errors not caught in 4.x #6623)

Changed

web3-eth-abi

• Use AbiError instead of Error for errors at web3-eth-abi (Use AbiError instead of Error for errors at web3-eth-abi #6641).

web3-eth-contract

• Allow the deploy function to accept parameters, even when no ABI was provided to the Contract(Allow the deploy function to accept parameters even when no ABI was provided to the Contract #6635)

web3

• Dependencies updated

Fixed

web3-eth-abi

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (Fix an issue with detecting Uint8Array #6486)

web3-eth-accounts

• Send Transaction config used to be ignored if the passed common did not have a copy() and the chainId was not provided (Increase Unit test coverage for web3-eth above 90% #6663)
• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (Fix an issue with detecting Uint8Array #6486)

web3-eth-contract

• Fix and error that happen when trying to get past events by calling contract.getPastEvents or contract.events.allEvents(), if there is no matching events. (Fix and error when trying to get past events by calling contract.getPastEvents or contract.events.allEvents() if there is no matching events. #6647)
• Fixed: The Contract is not using the context wallet passed if context was passed at constructor. (fix: The Contract is not using the context wallet passed if context was passed at constructor #6661)

web3-utils

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (Fix an issue with detecting Uint8Array #6486)

web3-validator

• Fixed an issue with detecting Uint8Array (Fix an issue with detecting Uint8Array #6486)

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web3.min.js	601 KB	601 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.63 KB	8.63 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.89 KB	3.89 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	2.45 KB	2.45 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	1.14 KB	1.14 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	999 bytes	999 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 bytes	280 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	148 bytes	148 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	60 bytes	60 bytes	0	0.00%

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Benchmark

Benchmark suite	Current: ff51bd0	Previous: 6c075db	Ratio
processingTx	9543 ops/sec (±3.79%)	9301 ops/sec (±4.81%)	0.97
processingContractDeploy	42617 ops/sec (±6.55%)	39129 ops/sec (±7.62%)	0.92
processingContractMethodSend	20604 ops/sec (±6.63%)	19443 ops/sec (±5.19%)	0.94
processingContractMethodCall	40093 ops/sec (±6.01%)	38971 ops/sec (±6.34%)	0.97
abiEncode	47853 ops/sec (±6.50%)	44252 ops/sec (±6.92%)	0.92
abiDecode	32549 ops/sec (±7.81%)	30419 ops/sec (±8.89%)	0.93
sign	1724 ops/sec (±1.04%)	1656 ops/sec (±4.08%)	0.96
verify	383 ops/sec (±0.64%)	373 ops/sec (±0.78%)	0.97

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Codecov Report

Merging #6709 (ff51bd0) into 4.x (1eb07d1) will not change coverage.
Report is 3 commits behind head on 4.x.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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[luu-alex]

7 suites failing
Failing tests:
E2E Network Tests (http, sepolia)
get_balance
test/e2e/sepolia/call.test.ts

E2E Network Tests (http, mainnet)
FAIL test/e2e/get_balance.test.ts
● Test suite failed to run
FAIL test/e2e/get_transaction_count.test.ts

Integration (18, geth, http)
web3-eth: FAIL test/integration/web3_eth/estimate_gas.test.ts

Integration (18, geth, ws)
web3Eth.estimateGas › should estimate a contract deployment
same with geth http node 16, geth ws node 16

Benchmark Tests (18)

[luu-alex]

Fixed e2e network tests, failing from #6689 updated in release PR
Estimate gas tests should be fixed from Oleksiis PR that was recently merged

[jdevcs]

lgtm, unit tests should be passing before release.