[4.11.0]

Fixed

web3-eth-abi

• fix encodedata in EIP-712 (EIP 712 fixes #7095)

web3-utils

• _sendPendingRequests will catch unhandled errors from _sendToSocket (WebSocket connection to Ethereum node closes/becomes idle after some time and reconnection fails to listen to smart contract events #6968)

web3-eth

• Fixed geth issue when running a new instance, transactions will index when there are no blocks created (fix waitingforreceipt error #7098)

Changed

web3-eth-accounts

• baseTransaction method updated (EIP 712 fixes #7095)

web3-providers-ws

• Update dependancies ([Snyk] Security upgrade ws from 8.8.1 to 8.17.1 #7109)

web3-rpc-providers

• Change request return type Promise<ResultType> to Promise<JsonRpcResponseWithResult<ResultType>> (update http quicknode rpc-provider #7102)

Added

web3-eth-contract

• populateTransaction was added to contract methods (Zk plugin related fixes #7124)
• Contract has setTransactionMiddleware and getTransactionMiddleware for automatically passing to sentTransaction for deploy and send functions (Contract Transactions Middleware #7138)

web3-rpc-providers

• When error is returned with code 429, throw rate limit error (update http quicknode rpc-provider #7102)

web3

• web3.eth.Contract will get transaction middleware and use it, if web3.eth has transaction middleware. (Contract Transactions Middleware #7138)