[4.11.0]

Fixed

web3-eth-abi

• fix encodedata in EIP-712 (#7095)

web3-utils

• _sendPendingRequests will catch unhandled errors from _sendToSocket (#6968)

web3-eth

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

Changed

web3-eth-accounts

• baseTransaction method updated (#7095)

web3-providers-ws

• Update dependancies (#7109)

web3-rpc-providers

• Change request return type Promise<ResultType> to Promise<JsonRpcResponseWithResult<ResultType>> (#7102)

Added

web3-eth-contract

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

web3-rpc-providers

• When error is returned with code 429, throw rate limit error (#7102)

web3

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