web3

Addition of named middlewares for easier manipulation of middleware stack.

Provider middlewares can no longer be modified during runtime.

Experimental custom ABI normalization API for Contract objects.

Change docs to use RTD theme

Experimental new EthereumTesterProvider for the ethereum-tester library.

Bugfix for function type abi encoding via ethereum-abi-utils upgrade to v0.4.1

Bugfix for Web3.toHex to conform to RPC spec.

Fix PyPi readme text.

Fix PyPi readme text.

New stalecheck_middleware

Improvements to Web3.toHex and Web3.toText .

Improvements to Web3.sha3 signature.

Bugfixes for Web3.eth.sign api

Add experimental fixture_middleware

Various bugfixes introduced in middleware API introduction and migration to formatter middleware.

Bugfix for formatter handling of contract creation transaction.

Improved testing infrastructure.

Bugfix for retrieving filter changes for both new block filters and pending transaction filters.

Fix mispelled attrdict_middleware (was spelled attrdict_middlware ).

New Middleware API

Support for multiple providers

New web3.soliditySha3

Remove multiple functions that were never implemented from the original web3.

Deprecated web3.currentProvider accessor. Use web3.provider now instead.

Deprecated password prompt within web3.personal.newAccount .

All web3 apis which accept address parameters now enforce checksums if the address looks like it is checksummed.

Improvements to error messaging with when calling a contract on a node that may not be fully synced

Bugfix for web3.eth.syncing to correctly handle False

Web3 now returns web3.utils.datastructures.AttributeDict in places where it previously returned a normal dict .

web3.eth.contract now performs validation on the address parameter.

Added web3.eth.getWork API

Add validation for the abi parameter of eth

Contract return values of bytes , bytesXX and string are no longer converted to text types and will be returned in their raw byte-string format.

Bugfix for eth_sign double hashing input.

Removed deprecated DelegatedSigningManager

Removed deprecate PrivateKeySigningManager

Update pyrlp dependency to >=0.4.7

Update eth-testrpc dependency to >=1.2.0

Deprecate DelegatedSigningManager

Deprecate PrivateKeySigningManager

upstream version bump for bugfix in eth-abi-utils

deprecate eth.defaultAccount defaulting to the coinbase account.

Fix error message from contract factory creation.

Use ethereum-utils for utility functions.

Upgrade ethereum-abi-utils dependency for upstream bugfix.

Deprecate Contract.code : replaced by Contract.bytecode

Deprecate Contract.code_runtime : replaced by Contract.bytecode_runtime

Deprecate abi , code , code_runtime and source as arguments for the Contract object.

Deprecate source as a property of the Contract object

Add Contract.factory() API.

Deprecate the construct_contract_factory helper function.

Bugfix for how requests library is used. Now reuses session.

Bugfix for construction of request_kwargs within HTTPProvider

Allow HTTPProvider to be imported from web3 module.

make HTTPProvider accessible as a property of web3 instances.

Deprecate web3.providers.rpc.RPCProvider

Deprecate web3.providers.rpc.KeepAliveRPCProvider

Add new web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider

Remove hard dependency on gevent.

Bugfix for web3.eth.getTransaction when the hash is unknown.

Bugfix for event log data decoding to properly handle dynamic sized values.

New web3.tester module to access extra RPC functionality from eth-testrpc

Fix package so that eth-testrpc is not required.

Force gevent<1.2.0 until this issue is fixed: https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/916

Bugfix for contract instances to respect web3.eth.defaultAccount

Better error reporting when ABI decoding fails for contract method response.

New EthereumTesterProvider now available. Faster test runs than TestRPCProvider

Updated underlying eth-testrpc requirement.

web3.shh is now implemented.

Introduced KeepAliveRPCProvider to correctly recycle HTTP connections and use HTTP keep alive

Bugfix for contract transaction sending not respecting the web3.eth.defaultAccount configuration.

New DelegatedSigningManager and PrivateKeySigningManager classes.

Bugfix or IPCProvider not handling large JSON responses well.

Better RPC compliance to be compatable with the Parity JSON-RPC server.

Filter objects now support controlling the interval through which they poll using the poll_interval property

Bugfix generation of event topics.

Web3.Iban now allows access to Iban address tools.

Bugfix for geth.ipc path on linux systems.

• Changes to the Contract API:

Contract.deploy() parameter arguments renamed to args

Contract.deploy() now takes args and kwargs parameters to allow constructing with keyword arguments or positional arguments.

Contract.pastEvents now allows you to specify a fromBlock or ``toBlock. Previously these were forced to be 'earliest' and web3.eth.blockNumber respectively.

Contract.call , Contract.transact and Contract.estimateGas are now callable as class methods as well as instance methods. When called this way, an address must be provided with the transaction parameter.

Contract.call , Contract.transact and Contract.estimateGas now allow specifying an alternate address for the transaction.

• RPCProvider now supports the following constructor arguments.

ssl for enabling SSL

connection_timeout and network_timeout for controlling the timeouts for requests.

Bugfix: Fix KeyError in merge_args_and_kwargs helper fn.

Bugfix for usage of block identifiers ‘latest’, ‘earliest’, ‘pending’

Sphinx documentation

Non-data transactions now default to 90000 gas.

Web3 object now has helpers set as static methods rather than being set at initialization.

RPCProvider now takes a path parameter to allow configuration for requests to go to paths other than / .

TestRPCProvider no longer dumps logging output to stdout and stderr.

Bugfix for return types of address[]

Bugfix for event data types of address

All transactions which contain a data element will now have their gas automatically estimated with 100k additional buffer. This was previously only true with transactions initiated from a Contract object.

Contract functions can now be called using keyword arguments.

Upstream fixes for filters

Filter APIs on and pastEvents now callable as both instance and class methods.

The filters that come back from the contract on and pastEvents methods now call their callbacks with the same data format as web3.js .

Cast RPCProvider port to an integer.

Remove all monkeypatching

Pull in downstream updates to proper gevent usage.

Fix eth_sign

Bugfix with contract operations mutating the transaction object that is passed in.

More explicit linting ignore statements.

BugFix: fix for python3 only json.JSONDecodeError handling.

BugFix: RPCProvider not sending a content-type header

Bugfix: web3.toWei now returns an integer instead of a decimal.Decimal

TestRPCProvider can now be imported directly from web3