Release 1.7.5

[jdevcs]

1.7.5

Changed

• Replace xhr2-cookies deps to cross-fetch for web3-providers-http (web3-providers-http: Migrate from xhr2-cookies to cross-fetch #5085)

Added

• Documentation details about maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas (Fixed documentation for web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction #5121)
• Added createAccessList types in web3.eth (Add createAccessList type #5146)

Fixed

• Improving AbstractProvider interface (AbstractProvider interface has incorrect signature(s) #5150)
• Fix typos in web3-eth-accounts.rst & TESTING.md (Small spelling errors in web3-eth-accounts.rst & TESTING.md #5047)
• Fix remove wallet using an index when an account address and address lowercase are equal (Problem deleting account when checksummed address is equal to lowercase address #5049)
• Improve README.md & Fix typos (Fix build command #4848)
• Add optional hex formatting parameter for getTransactionrReceipt (getTransactionReceipt: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits #5153)
• Fix transactionRoot -> transactionsRoot in BlockHeader (Fix transactionRoot -> transactionsRoot in BlockHeader #5083)
• Fix Promise in Accounts.signTransaction() throwing errors that cannot be caught (Some exceptions thrown by web3-eth-account cannot be caught #4724)
• Fixed unit tests & removed dead code for web3-providers-http (Fixed unit tests & removed dead code for web3-providers-http #5228)

Security

• Updated got lib version and fixed other libs using npm audit fix (Update got dependency for web3-bzz package #5178) (1.x Libs Update including parse-url #5254)

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[jdevcs]

As part of the RC process, following test installations are performed in other projects and running their tests to see if everything.

• installs properly
• builds
• tests pass

(This list will be actively edited)

Project	Desc	Status
oz-test-helpers	Test utils. Subset of their suite is web3 contracts
synthetix	~1000 units

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[ghost]

@jdevcs Could you merge this PR #5228 prior to merging this PR? Since it fixes some bugs introduced by #5085, I think it is necessary.

[jdevcs]

@jdevcs Could you merge this PR #5228 prior to merging this PR? Since it fixes some bugs introduced by #5085, I think it is necessary.

Thanks , we discussed in team and its imp to include PR #5228 in 1.7.5 due to following fix:
(#5235)

[jdevcs]

For RC 1.7.5-rc.1:
As part of the RC process, following test installations are performed in other projects and running their tests to see if everything.

• installs properly
• builds
• tests pass

(This list will be actively edited)

Project	Desc	Status
oz-test-helpers	Test utils. Subset of their suite is web3 contracts	x
synthetix	~1000 units	✅

[luu-alex]

Synthetix tests and oz tests passed ✅ for 1.7.5-rc.1

[jdevcs]

oz two tests are failing:

1) expectRevert
       assertion
         rejects an outOfGas:
     AssertionError: expect.fail()
      at assertFailure (test/helpers/assertFailure.js:9:10)
      at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
      at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/src/expectRevert.test.js:123:7)

  2) expectRevert
       outOfGas
         accepts an outOfGas:

      Wrong kind of exception received
      + expected - actual

      -Transaction: 0x4e501c63fc4b9d533635216abf480158732cd842f20efd89335781fd1d0868e2 exited with an error (status 0) after consuming all gas.
      -     Please check that the transaction:
      -     - satisfies all conditions set by Solidity `assert` statements.
      -     - has enough gas to execute the full transaction.
      -     - does not trigger an invalid opcode by other means (ex: accessing an array out of bounds).
      +out of gas
      
      at expectException (src/expectRevert.js:20:30)
      at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
      at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/src/expectRevert.test.js:153:7)

discussed in team: oz two tests not passing ( for current RC also for couple of past releases ), we can ignore this test.