CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

This change log is managed by admin/cmds/update-versions but may be manually updated.

ethers/v5.8.0 (2024-02-23 19:11)

• Added modern networks, updated third-party backend URLs and added QuickNode. (#3935, #4010; f7c813d)
• Updated tests for goerli. (706d3ca)

ethers/v5.7.2 (2022-10-19 04:19)

• Updated tests to use goerli instead of ropsten. (1392803, 706d3ca)
• Added new error strings Pocket returns. (9f990c5)
• Fixed Alchemy goerli URL. (#3320, #3323, #3340, #3358, #3423; 74e3d98)
• Update testnets for third-party providers. (#3320, #3323, #3340, #3358, #3423; 2a3a2e1)

ethers/v5.7.1 (2022-09-13 21:28)

• Fixed message signing errors that clobbered critical Error properties. (#3356; b14cb0f)
• Add support for all data URL formats. (#3341; 4c86dc9)
• Added Sepolia network. (#3325; d083522)

ethers/v5.7.0 (2022-08-18 16:17)

• Update PocketProvider to newer URL format. (#2980; 10d07ca)
• Add new ENS normalization specification for wider UTF-8 support. (#42, #2376, #2754; 14bf407, fce9aaa, f274104)
• Added ACTION_REJECTED error for UI-based Signers. (d9897e0)
• Include current baseFee in feeData for easier custom fee calculation. (8314236)
• Add restrictions for new UTF-8 specification ENS names. (#42, #2376, #2754; e52fbfb)
• Expand the definition of a WebSocketLike. (#2843; 00114d7)
• Expanded type for queryFitler to allow string. (#2882; 60da870)
• Added finalized and safe blockTags. (#3091; 549168c)
• Added arbitrum-goerli to Networks and AlchemyProvider. (#3246; e72d13e)
• Add EIP-712 type exports. (#221; 7ce41cd)
• Added optimism-goerli to AlchemyProvider. (#3246; f1cb0d2)
• Updated EtherscanProvider for new CommunityResource API throttling. (6bd13c3)
• Fix old events from being emitted at the beginning of a filter. (#3069, #3094; ea2d245)
• Fixed Interface signautres missing strings as eventFragments. (#3157; c004ae5)
• Fix bug in EIP1193Bridge forwarding to the wrong method. (#3166; 17676e9)
• Use updated Web3 Secret Storage format for JSON wallets. (#3075; 6f57e8b)
• Relaxed nameprep length requirement dropping RFC-5891 section 4.2.4. (#3161; abdf2e3)
• Switch to hash.js for ripemd160 on node as it was removed from the default crypto provider in node 17. (#3082; 450694e)
• Add optimism-kovan to EtherscanProvider. (#3135; 4d3e586)
• Forward any blockTag along in the FallbackProvider during call. (#3168; ab43e7d)
• Allow browser fetch option overrides. (#3096; c309df8)

ethers/v5.6.9 (2022-06-17 14:44)

• Removed Ankr for Ropsten default provider; the merge seems to have broke it. (3790671)
• Fix NonceManager for increment 0 and provided nonce. (#3062, #3085; 0a28679)
• Fixed topic filters for numeric types with string values. (#3013; 0078e02)

ethers/v5.6.8 (2022-05-24 11:50)

• Update BN.js for hexstring bug fix. (#3017; 30b716b, a27ef82)

ethers/v5.6.7 (2022-05-20 19:11)

• Add Skynet support. (#2853, #2866; 13dd42c)
• Fix WebWorker support in rollup files. (#2976; d06aa26)
• Remove superfluous logging. (#2995; ed7e6a5)
• Add matic and optimism support to default provider. (a301297)
• Use case-insensitive schemes for getDefaultProvider. (#2320; 8b62aef)
• Pad position in JSON-RPC getStorageAt calls. (#2982; d5815cc)

ethers/v5.6.6 (2022-05-12 17:29)

• Ensure gas estimate errors are not call exceptions in disguise. (#2954; 2c3dae0)
• Added optimism to EtherscanProvider. (#2968; c6eebf9)
• Remove pedantic check for new keyword which broke some platforms for inheritance. (#2860, #2861; 32b7373)

ethers/v5.6.5 (2022-05-01 02:10)

• Added testnets for AnkrProvider. (#2949, #2950; d9f45b3)
• Better error coalescing for OpenEthereum nodes. (#2846; bebd669)
• Enforce 32-byte private key length (2926). (7b299dd)
• Fixed decimal strings as value-type properties for JsonRpcSigner. (#2948; 9bf17fa)

ethers/v5.6.4 (2022-04-13 16:56)

• Support new OpenEthereum NONCE_EXPIRED string. (#2845, #2846; 0855d6e)

ethers/v5.6.3 (2022-04-13 00:23)

• Mimic Hardhard error strings in CALL_EXCEPTION for popular matchers. (#2849, #2862; dab6ede)
• Fix pocket API key not being passed in for default provider. (#2890; 056d7c8)

ethers/v5.6.2 (2022-03-25 17:56)

• Fixed left-padding in arrayify. (#2833; e192903)
• More robust JSON-RPC error handling for reverted executions. (#2603; 9d9b14b)
• Added IPNS support for ENS contenthash. (e70f3fe)
• Added initial AnkrProvider (96de581)

ethers/v5.6.1 (2022-03-16 01:25)

• Fix issue with CCIP Read using wrong sender. (#2478; 5998fea, 905e98a)

ethers/v5.6.0 (2022-03-09 14:57)

• Tweaked test case to re-order transaction after event listeners added. (fa4a290)
• Ignore errors when resolving ENS resolver properties. (d160bac)
• Enable CCIP Read for ENS resolvers. (#2478; be518c3)
• Fix missing events on certain network conditions. (#1798, #1814, #1830, #2274, #2652; f67a9a8, f46aa75)
• Added defaultProvider option to omit specific Providers. (bae215e)
• Add support for pending blocks. (#2225; 54e6e57)
• Help URLs for errors. (#2489; 38e825c, c562150)
• Added CCIP support to provider.call. (#2478; ae23bb7)
• Adjust default maxPriorityFeePerGas to 1.5 gwei. (33a029e)
• Fix contracts when name resolution fails without any checks. (#2737; c2a6a01)
• Preserve explicit chainId in JsonRpcProvider during transaction serialization. (#2691; 6807a76)
• Fixed eth_chainId response for Eip1193Bridge. (#2711; 5f26fd5)
• Remove spurious console.log from Interface. (#2714; 4e8f004)
• Allow raw WebSocket to be passed into WebSocketProvider. (#2562, #2644; 9aac785)
• Added Cloudflare Worker support. (#1886; 2d98b4f, 1651389)
• Add support for EIP-2098 compact signatures. (#2246; f26074b)
• Add EIP-2544 Wildcard support. (#2477, #2582, #2583; 83891f9)

ethers/v5.5.4 (2022-01-24 16:45)

• Support invalid but popular IPFS URI format. (#2271, #2527, #2590; 03545aa)

ethers/v5.5.3 (2022-01-06 03:52)

• Fixed case-folding in schemes for ENS avatars. (#2500; 3f5bc6d)
• Added Kintsugi network. (#2434; ab13887)
• Fix browser random in WebWorkers. (#2405; 4ba63ac)
• Add support for IPFS metadata imageUrl in getAvatar. (#2426; 3d6a7ec)
• Do not swallow ENS not supported errors. (#2387; 2f57c6a)

ethers/v5.5.2 (2021-11-30 19:16)

• Fixed test case for getAvatar; url has moved (617714d)
• Added basic redirect support. (42784b8)
• Added arbitrum and optimism to networks and providers. (#2335; 0844de4)
• Added support for data URLs for avatar metadata. (b8391b0)
• Fixed getAvatar for unconfigured ENS names. (1e1c93e)

ethers/v5.5.1 (2021-10-20 03:59)

• Fixed abstract Provider signature issue. (#2190; 1bd9161)

ethers/v5.5.0 (2021-10-19 00:01)

• Added ENS avatar support to provider. (#2185; ecce861)
• Fixed splitSignature logic for verifying EIP-2930 and EIP-1559 v. (#2084; 3de1b81)
• Include events on ContractFactory deployment transactions. (#1334; ab319f2)
• admin: fixed alias script. (#1494; 8f3d71d)
• Better errors when non-string address or ENS name is passed into Contracts or provider methods. (#1051; a5c6a46)
• Use personal_sign instead of eth_sign for message signing with JsonRpcSigner; added _legacySignMessage for legacy support. (#1542, #1840; 8947fd4)
• Removed extra wordlists from the dist files. (#2058, #2077; cb43a99)
• Fix issue when Solidity method collises with JavaScript prototype. (#1432, #2054, #2120; 0a8be37)
• Add support for Cloudflare Workers. (#1886; 6582ede)
• Added more information to some invalid argument errors. (#1130; f3c6d81)
• Fix compile-time error in new TypeScript version. (bee76a4)
• Adding customData support to transactions to assist L2 chains. (#1761; 68095a4)
• Added some explicit null results to previously implicit null results for ENS. (#1850; 0e5419e)
• Added BigNumber _difficulty to Block results. (#2001, #2036; a48552a)
• Removed redundant call to normalizing blockTag (#1838). (d5b41ce)
• Fixed isBytes check for invalid length or elements. (#1964; 7a404fb)
• Fixed randomBytes not rejecting NaN as a length. (#1977; f8adf82)
• Allow any Networkish for getDefaultProvider. (#2031; cc250b2)
• Stop allowing commas in fixed numbers; left over from legacy comma support. (#2083; 45f3675)
• Export FallbackProviderConfig. (#2121; 48c9e0b)

ethers/v5.4.7 (2021-09-16 13:17)

• Fix parseUints with excess zeros and fix ReDoS issue. (#2016, #1975, #1976; 32a6b2a)

ethers/v5.4.6 (2021-08-27 15:34)

• Temporarily remove the block miner for clique-based networks from CI testing. (#1967; 8320d53)
• More readable errors involving Uint8Arrays. (b6a061e)
• Added Deferred Error support to Description objects to extent Interface parse methods. (#1894; a662490)
• Fix address coder to prepare non-hexdatastring addresses as hexdatastring. (#1906; 017b1fe)
• Removed temporary code for better errors needed until Alchemy added EIP-1559 support. (#1893; accb852)

ethers/v5.4.5 (2021-08-18 03:05)

• Fxied getBlockWithTransactions results (#1858). (78e4273)

ethers/v5.4.4 (2021-08-04 01:37)

• Fixed Etherscan API key in default provider. (#1807; 1d27d95)
• Adjust default masPriorityFeePerGas to account for MEV-heavy blocks. (#1817; 7175e2e)

ethers/v5.4.3 (2021-07-29 23:26)

• Fixed JsonRpcProvider for pre-EIP-2930 chains. (#1766; 7274cd0)
• Forward some missing EIP-1559 fields to call and estimateGas. (#1766; be3854e)
• Fixed possible UnhandledPromiseException for bad ENS names. (63f8b28)
• Prevent overriding value for non-payble constructors. (#1785; 593b488)

ethers/v5.4.2 (2021-07-23 17:22)

• Fix test case for new transactions responses. (0aafca7)
• Added matic support to INFURA and Alchemy. (#1546; 576e9b5)
• Added string change to coalesce errors on some clients. (bc5cc2e)
• Added wait to transactions returned by getBlockWithTransactions. (#971; 660e69d)
• Fixed floor, ceiling and round for FixedNumber for non-default Formats. (#1749; 551cfa0)
• Fixed null confirmations in Wallet transaction. (#1706; 0f0d0c0)
• Fixed Etherscan string change and enabled all tests. (a1f8d18)

ethers/v5.4.1 (2021-07-02 01:47)

• Added Pocket back into Homestead defaultProvider and skip certain EtherscanProvider tests affected by outage. (6e8a39e)
• Fixed EtherscanProvider NONCE_EXPIRED matching string update. (ecae793)
• Fixed explicit EIP-1559 keys for JsonRpcSigner. (72feee8)

ethers/v5.4.0 (2021-06-26 01:50)

• Added EIP-1559 support. (#1610; 319987e, 91fff14, c5bca77, 5456c35, 7a12216, e95708e)
• Added effectiveGasPrice to receipt. (ba6854b)
• Fixed ENS names for JsonRpcSigner. (1e31b34)
• Added EIP-2930 and EIP-1559 transaction tests. (7deb4c1)
• Added ConstructorFragment to exports. (7efc36d)
• Added error utilities to Interface. (720bde7, f053a7a)
• merged master including transaction type 0 legacy constant. (#1610; 2a7ce0e)
• Added type to TransactionResponse and TrnsactionReceipt. (#1687; d001901)
• Trap CALL_EXCEPTION errors when resolving ENS entries. (#1690; 91951dc)
• Fixed transaction serialization with explicit null type. (#1628; 8277f5a)
• Fix issue with loading JSON ABI with internalType property. (#728; e8a0144)

ethers/v5.3.1 (2021-06-10 18:28)

• Fixed replacement transaction detection for JsonRpcSigner. (#1658; ee82e86)
• Added Matic testnet info to networks. (#1546; 376cf3c)
• Match Solidity identifier regex. (#1657; a6e128f)

ethers/v5.3.0 (2021-05-31 18:41)

• Added MinInt256 and MaxInt256 constants. (#1576; bfcd05f)
• Version bumps for bn.js and hash.js to match elliptic and fix some build tools. (#1478; 819b1ac)
• Removed Hangul checks in shims which crashes Android. (#1519; 4b33114)
• Fixed ENS namehash with leading and trailing dots. (#1605; 7adcf3b)
• Fixed broken variable in template string. (#1624, #1626; 630656e)
• Fixed FixedNumber rounding for non-default formats. (#1629; 8681cd5)
• Update ws dependency version to fix security. (#1633, #1634; 470551e)

ethers/v5.2.0 (2021-05-17 16:18)

• More aggresively check for mempool transactions sent from JsonRpcSigner. (3316468)
• Added initial support for detecting replacement transactions. (#1477; 987bec8, 5144acf)
• Added convenience method for HD path derivation. (aadc5cd)
• Added mnemonicPath option to cli. (6e08809)
• Added some popular Ethereum-compatible chains to networks. (b6370f1)
• Added debug event to Web3Provider. (26464c5)
• Abstracted EtherscanProivder to more easily fascilitate other Etherscan-supported chains. (#1204, #1473; 37a9c77)
• Added Custom Contract Errors. (#1498; 6519609, 483d67f)
• More flexible FixedNumber input and output for strings with no decimals. (#1019, #1291, #1463; a9cdbe1)
• Added hex support for bigint. (#1472; 4e9abfd)
• Added support for null entries in EventFilter. (#1499; 3bb5fbf)
• Add bigint to allowed BigNumberish types. (#1472; cadccc3)
• Minor version bump. (8e22e02)

ethers/v5.1.4 (2021-04-22 06:33)

• Do not throw on ABI "error" type. (#1493, #1497; bd05aed)

ethers/v5.1.3 (2021-04-19 21:01)

• Fixed JsonRpcProvider event-loop caching when using any network. (#1484; 58488e7)
• Updated experimental Eip1193Bridge to support final EIP-1193 API. (2911659)
• Fail early for ABI decoding that will obviously run out of data. (#1486; 51f0e1a)
• Fixed BigNumber toBigInt return type. (#1485; c086962)

ethers/v5.1.2 (2021-04-18 19:31)

• Increase provider tests gas price for sending a transaction. (8eaeba3)
• Fixed run-checking non-filter Contract events. (#1458; 4a44865)

ethers/v5.1.1 (2021-04-18 02:47)

• Increased sendTransaction timeout to 15 minutes and pull Pocket from tx tests. (08adc18)
• Export Eip1193Bridge in experimental package. (1fcf4b6)
• Prevent non-typed transactions from unsafely ignoring specified access lists. (#1364; 4577444)
• Update tests for current EIP-2930 support across backends. (#1364; 1cb3199)
• Removed underscore from the JsonRpcBatchProvider name. (#62, #656, #892; ae0d5eb)
• Added better error detection when pre-EIP-155 transactions are disabled. (b8df000)
• Fix Android React Native environment shims which crash on normalizing Korean test. (#1298; eb1ec2f)
• Fixed EIP-2930 transactions for EtherscanProvider. (#1364; b655089)
• Re-enable AlchemyProvider Berlin tests. (bec066b)
• Added experimental _JsonRpcBatchProvider. (#62, #656, #892; d55ab6d)
• Cache JsonRpcProvider requests for certain methods per event loop. (#1371; 1a7c4e8)

ethers/v5.1.0 (2021-03-30 14:44)

• Added BigNumber.toBigInt method. (#1415; 81fd628)
• Abstracted Contract with BaseContract without meta-class properties for easier extensions. (#1384; 87ceaed)
• Fixed Contract properties that collide with null member properties. (#1393; 0e1721b)
• Added EIP-2930 support. (#1364; c47d2eb)
• Added abstraction for EIP-2718 support. (1db4ce1)

ethers/v5.0.32 (2021-03-07 18:17)

• Bumped TypeScript to 4.2.2. (#1288; b2ecffb)
• Fixed shims from not displaying debug information. (a953f71)
• Force TypedData numbers to be in decimal. (#1193; c5a53d6)

ethers/v5.0.31 (2021-02-12 19:04)

• Prevent unhandled rejections when passing nullish into Contract constructor. (#1234; d937668)
• Better error messaging when provider backends give bogus responses. (#1243; 8279120)
• Prevent unconfigured ENS names from making an init tx. (#1290; 243beff)

ethers/v5.0.30 (2021-02-08 15:22)

• When in Status trigger personal_sign instead of eth_sign. (#1285; 73e9434)
• Bump elliptic version for CVE-2020-28498. (#1284; 796954f)

ethers/v5.0.29 (2021-02-03 14:36)

• Fixed typos in JSON ABI formatting. (#1275; 73b31b3)

ethers/v5.0.28 (2021-02-02 17:12)

• Added load balancer support to PocketProvider. (#1052; 27a981c)

ethers/v5.0.27 (2021-02-01 15:55)

• Added support for networks with slightly incorrect EIP-658 implementations. (#952, #1251; e727efc)
• Added Pocket network to the default provider. (#1030, #1052; 4af2c19)
• Added TypeScript declaration maps. (#401; 3396846)

ethers/v5.0.26 (2021-01-13 14:47)

• Fixed abundant UnhandledRejectErrors in provider polling. (#1084, #1208, #1221, #1235; 74470de, 20f6e16)
• Fixed non-checksum address comparisons in abstract Signer. (#1236; 8175c83)

ethers/v5.0.25 (2021-01-08 03:31)

• Safety check on digest length for signing. (20335e9)
• Fixed listenerCount for contract when requesting for all events. (#1205; a56a0a3)
• Lock package versions for the ESM builds. (#1009; 0e6cc9a)

ethers/v5.0.24 (2020-12-08 01:43)

• Fixed EIP-712 getPayload dropping EIP712Domain from types for JSON-RPC calls. (#687; d3b1ac0)
• Remvoed dead files. (70c2b1b)

ethers/v5.0.23 (2020-11-25 15:25)

• Fix BigNumber when passed something with a length property. (#1172; 45a2902)

ethers/v5.0.22 (2020-11-23 19:16)

• Added directory to repo field for each package. (799896a)
• Add ABI coder function to compute default values. (#1101; a8e3380)
• Fix for new versions of Geth which return formatted data on revert rather than standard data. (#949; 4a8d579)
• Addd missing sideEffects flag to some packages. (20defec)
• Allow base-10 to be passed into BigNumbner.toString and improve errors for other radices. (#1164; c8bb77d, fbbe4ad)
• Allow private keys to Wallet to omit the 0x prefix. (#1166; 29f6c34)

ethers/v5.0.21 (2020-11-19 18:52)

• Force address to use bignumber package with base36 private functions. (#1163; c9e5480)
• Remove stray console.log in hardware wallets. (#1136; cc63e61)
• Added some funding links for the sponsor button. (2816850)
• Remove invalid pkg.module reference. (#1133; cddc258)

ethers/v5.0.20 (2020-11-17 20:32)

• Fix browser ws alias for WebSockets. (02546b9)
• Fixing React Native tests. (f10977a, fff72ef)
• Refactoring dist build process. (4809325, 22bd0c7, 8933467)

ethers/v5.0.19 (2020-10-22 21:55)

• Allow 0x as a numeric value for 0 in Provider formatter. (#1104; fe17a29)
• Use POST for long requests in EtherscanProvider. (#1093; 28f60d5)
• Added verifyTypedData for EIP-712 typed data. (#687; 550ecf2, a21202c)

ethers/v5.0.18 (2020-10-19 01:26)

• Fix signTypedData call for JsonRpcSigner. (#687; 15a90af)
• Added EIP-712 test cases. (#687; 1589353)
• Initial Signer support for EIP-712 signed typed data. (#687; be4e216)
• Split hash library files up. (3e676f2)
• Added EIP-712 multi-dimensional array support. (#687; 5a4dd5a)
• Consolidated TypedDataEncoder methods. (#687; 345a830)
• Initial EIP-712 utilities. (#687; cfa6dec)
• Added initial PocketProvider. (#1052; a62d20d)

ethers/v5.0.17 (2020-10-07 20:08)

• Better error message for parseUnits of non-strings. (#981; 5abc2f3)
• Add gzip support to AlchemyProivder and InfuraProvider fetching. (#1085; 38a068b)
• Add gzip support to getUrl in node. (#1085; 65772a8)
• Added CommunityResourcable to mark Providers as highly throttled. (a022093)
• Added debug event info to WebSocketProvider. (#1018; 8e682cc)

ethers/v5.0.16 (2020-10-05 15:44)

• ABI encoding performance additions. (#1012; f3e5b0d)
• Export hexConcat in utils. (#1079; 3d051e4)
• Cache chain ID for WebSocketProvider. (#1054; 40264ff)

ethers/v5.0.15 (2020-09-26 03:22)

• Add more accurate intrinsic gas cost to ABI calls with specified gas property. (#1058; f0a5869)
• Better errors for unconfigured ENS names. (#1066; 5cd1668)
• Updated CLI solc to versin 0.7.1. (4306b35)

ethers/v5.0.14 (2020-09-16 02:39)

• More robust blockchain error detection (#1047; 49f7157)
• Forward blockchain errors from Signer during gas estimation. (#1047; 9ee685d)
• Improve fetch errors with looser mime-type detection. (#1047; 263bfe5)

ethers/v5.0.13 (2020-09-11 02:10)

• Force content-length in web fetching. (be92339)
• Better error forwarding from FallbackProvider. (#1021; bc3eeec)
• Add clamping functions to FixedNumber. (#1037; 042b74e)

ethers/v5.0.12 (2020-09-07 19:54)

• Allow events to use compact bytes ABI coded data for Solidity 0.4 external events. (#891, #992; 4e394fc)

ethers/v5.0.11 (2020-09-05 23:51)

• Synced unorm in shims to most recent version. (bdccf7b)
• Fixed LedgerSigner sendTransaction. (#936; cadb28d)
• Added BrainWallet to experimental exports. (72385c2)
• More readable server errors. (201e5ce)

ethers/v5.0.10 (2020-09-05 01:21)

• Added retry logic to provider tests. (0558bba, 35b64b9, 681f2a5)
• Fixed link in docs. (#1028; 2359a98)
• Added memory-like support and new opcodes to asm. (6fd3bb6)
• Added basic ENS resolver functions for contenthash, text and multi-coin addresses. (#1003; 83db8a6)
• Added support for changing Reporter logging function. (d01d0c8)
• Initial React Native test harness. (#993; 57eb5b7, d3b473e)
• Updating shims for constrained environments. (#944, #993; 8abdbbb, 240aac5)

ethers/v5.0.9 (2020-08-25 01:45)

• Updated docs for all packages on npm pages. (#1013; cb8f4a3)
• Added JSON support to BigNumber. (#1010; 8facc1a)
• Updated packages for security audit. (5b5904e)
• Fix emitted error for ABI code array count mismatch. (#1004; b0c082d)

ethers/v5.0.8 (2020-08-04 20:55)

• Abstract fetchJson for data. (e2d6f28, 2c49a52, e1bbb06)

ethers/v5.0.7 (2020-07-20 02:22)

• Fix Logger setLogLevel with enum case mismatch. (#947; 5443363, af10705)
• Removed UUID dependency from json-wallets. (#966; e3f7426)
• Removed unnecessary dependency from BigNumber. (#951; 78b350b)

ethers/v5.0.6 (2020-07-16 05:54)

• Removed unnecessary dependency from BigNumber. (#951; 78b350b)
• Longer Etherscan throttle slot interval. (9f20258)
• Fixed ENS overrides for the default provider. (#959; 63dd3d4)
• Added Retry-After support and adjustable slot interval to fetchJson. (7d43545)
• Added initial throttling support. (#139, #904, #926; 88c7eae)
• Use status code 1000 on WebSocket hangup for compatibility. (588f64c)
• Updated WebSocketProvider to use web-style event listener API. (57fd6f0)
• Normalize formatUnits to simplified decimals. (79b1da1)
• Prevent zero-padding on Solidity type lengths. (e128bfc)
• Set sensible defaults for INFURA and AlchemyAPI getWebSocketProvider methods. (e3d3e60)
• Added logger assert methods. (619a888)
• Added initial code coverage testing. (0c1d55b)
• Added destroy to WebSocketProvider. (d0a79c6)
• Updated packages (security updates). (c660176)

ethers/v5.0.5 (2020-07-07 23:18)

• Fixed splitSignature when recoveryParam is encoded directly. (#893, #933; bf65ddb)
• Fixed BigNumber string validation. (#935; 7e56f3d)

ethers/v5.0.4 (2020-07-04 23:46)

• Prevent negative exponents in BigNumber. (#925; 84e253f)
• Fixed StaticJsonRpcProvider when auto-detecting network. (#901; 0fd9aa5)
• Added WebSocket static method to Alchemy provider and updated Alchemy URLs. (4838874)

ethers/v5.0.3 (2020-06-29 00:50)

• Fixed typo in error string. (7fe702d)
• Updated elliptic package to address possible malleability issue; which should not affect Ethereum. (9e14345)
• Fixed FixedNumber unguarded constructor and added isZero. (#898; 08c74e9)
• Added StaticJsonRpcProvider for reducing calls to chainId in certain cases. (#901; c53864d)
• Allow getDefaultProvider to accept a URL as a network. (8c1ff4c)
• Make network an optional parameter to WebSocketProvider. (987b535)
• Removed deprecated errors package. (f9e9347)
• Updated badges in docs. (d00362e)
• Create security policy. Create security policy. (88e6849)

ethers/v5.0.2 (2020-06-13 21:36)

• Allow provider.ready to stall until the network is available. (#882; bbb4f40)
• Reduce dependencies to squash security issues. (738d349)
• Updated admin scripts for publishing prod releases. (e0e0dbe)

ethers/v5.0.1 (2020-06-12 23:09)

• Fixed embedded package version strings. (5a69e9c)

ethers/v5.0.0 (2020-06-12 19:58)

• Preserve config canary string. (7157816)
• Updated docs. (9e4c7e6)