v7.9.0

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Presenting the latest version of Ganache! This release brings a couple of important bug fixes and one new feature: the ability to specify a file path for Ganache to write logs to – handy when using detach mode, where the logs are not (yet) available.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue or open a PR to fix an existing issue.

We've changed 59 files across 14 merged pull requests, tallying 2485 additions and 563 deletions, since our last release.

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• feat: add hardfork to cli output (#4343)
• feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument (#4195)

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feat: add hardfork to cli output (#4343)

Ganache now outputs the hardfork to the console along with the rest of the startup information:

Chain
==================
Hardfork: shanghai
Id:       1337

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feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument (#4195)

Introducing the ability to specify a log file for Ganache to write its logs to. No more sifting through endless terminal output to find that one critical message you need. Just provide a path to your desired log file with ganache --logging.file <path-to-log-file>, and you're all set! Now you can sit back, relax, and let Ganache do the heavy lifting while you focus on building awesome applications.

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• fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand (#4368)
• fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp (#4455)
• fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition (#4463)
• fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks (#4465)

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fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand (#4368)

When ganache instances is executed, a subcommand must be provided.
Previously an unhelpful error was thrown, with this fix we output a simple error message, followed by the the help text for ganache instances.

$ ganache instances
ganache instances requires a subcommand:

ganache instances

Manage instances of Ganache running in detached mode.
(Ganache can be run in detached mode by providing the --detach flag)

Commands:
  ganache instances list         List instances running in detached mode
  ganache instances stop <name>  Stop the instance specified by <name>

Options:
  -?, --help  Show help                                                                           [boolean]

fixes: #4360

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fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp (#4455)

Starting with Shanghai, hardforks are determined by timestamp, rather than block number. When resolving the hardfork to use for a given block, we now consider the blocknumber and the timestamp.

fixes: #4450 (in that the correct hardfork is now resolved, which is not mergeForkIdTransition)

See #4463

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fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition (#4463)

Add internal support for mergeForkIdTransition "hardfork", which is presently live only on Sepolia, but assumedly will eventually happen on other networks.

This doesn't add any functionality, but fixes: #4450 for transactions happening on mergeForkIdTransition hardfork.

See #4455

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fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks (#4465)

Fixes #4359

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• docs: update contributing guide for linux (#4358)
• chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command (#4357)
• test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI (#4353)
• docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md (#4036)
• perf: optimize account init logging (#4318)
• docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals (#4383)
• perf: optimize options normalization (#4317)
• docs: preloads docs assets (#4384)

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docs: update contributing guide for linux (#4358)

Python 2.7 is no longer a requirement to build ganache, but make is.

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chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command (#4357)

This is just to make ganache development from WSL easier.

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test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI (#4353)

Previously, tests that depend on an INFURA_KEY would be skipped if it were not provided. After this change these tests will fail in CI if no INFURA_KEY is provided.

Additionally, a test which was previously skipped is now run on Windows and Linux agents in Github Actions only. ( > server > listens on given interface only)

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docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md (#4036)

Does what it says on the tin.

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perf: optimize account init logging (#4318)

Minor performance improvement on startup.

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docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals (#4383)

Changes the contrast on links on ganache.dev in light mode.

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perf: optimize options normalization (#4317)

Minor performance improvement on start up.

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v7.8.0

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Introducing the newest addition to our lineup - Ganache v7.8.0! This release comes with support for the highly anticipated Shanghai hardfork.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, or open a PR to fix an existing issue.

We've changed 84 files across 1 merged pull requests, tallying 6,243 additions and 4,642 deletions, since our last release.

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feat: add support for the shanghai hardfork (#4272)

• EIP-3651: Warm COINBASE
• EIP-3855: PUSH0 instruction
• EIP-4895: Beacon chain push withdrawals as operations
• EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT
• EIP-3860: Limit and meter initcode

We've added a new option allowUnlimitedInitCodeSize to disable EIP-3860 (Limit and meter initcode) to continue to allow for uploading very large contracts. In most cases it will need to be combined with the allowUnlimitedContractSize option.

This also fixes two bugs:

• block size was not computed correctly (persisted databases will be updated and migrated automatically)
  • the database migration may add a one-time delay to startup when using a persistent database (--database.dbPath). This should be insignificant for the majority of cases. The migration was benchmarked with 180,000 blocks, and completed in 6.4 seconds.
• internal "intrinsic gas" checks now correctly include accessList fees, if there are any.

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• #4272 feat: support shanghai hardfork (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• interactive documentation's debug_storageRangeAt doesn't work (#3203)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.7

 Highlights   Fixes   Changelog   Known Issues   Future Plans 

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A huge thanks to @MicaiahReid for all of his hard work making this release possible. We've had a vision to create "Interactive Documentation" for JSON-RPC since we started the Ganache rewrite back in April of 2019. This documentation had been 80% complete for well over a year, and as most of us know, it's the last 20% that is always the hardest. Micaiah revived this stalled docs initiative and took on the challenge of finishing up that last 20%; he decreased the "time to interactive" from dozens of seconds down to under 3 seconds, fixed tons of bugs, and polished up the interface (with the help of @OnlyOneJMJQ) for a much more usable and consistent look and feel.

We consider this a "first-pass" at interactive documentation, and we have big (top secret!) plans for this platform we hope to bring to life in the future. If you discover any issues, or have ideas on how we can improve the user experience let us know by opening a new issue.

Scroll down to the Highlights section to learn more!

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, or open a PR to fix an existing issue if you really want to get involved.

We've changed 29 files across 1 merged pull request, tallying 18716 additions and 4094 deletions, since our last release.

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We are beyond thrilled to announce the official launch of our new interactive documentation site, ganache.dev!

ganache.dev will be the new home of Ganache's documentation. We're starting with interactive JSON-RPC documentation, but we will be building on this platform to provide 100%-in-browser tutorials, examples, and how-to guides, in addition to this reference documentation.

We designed ganache.dev to be useful for advanced users, but also (hopefully) easy for those new to the JSON-RPC layer of Ethereum. If you want to help improve this new "education" initiative there are a few ways you can help:

• open an issue if you find any bugs
• tell us your ideas by opening a new issue or start a discussion
• improve the examples, e.g. evm_setAccountNonce
• make it faster!
• add @EIP tags to RPC methods, e.g. EIP-155

And if you really want to help, get the word out! Here's a handy link that will draft a tweet for you:

Happy hacking!

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fix: improve styling and performance for interactive docs (#4033)

This PR:

• fixes the slow rendering issues of the current interactive docs by lazy-loading the monaco windows as you scroll
• fixes some bits of buggy UI/UX
• fixes all examples from api.ts
• fixes links to source code (they now point to code at commit hash that generated docs [note, in development you'll have to push your changes for these links to work])
• adds color theme switcher
• adds themes to monaco editor to allow ganache styling
• borrows heavily from @OnlyOneJMJQ's PR for styling (#4035)
• improves rendering consistency for users with JS disabled
• groups RPC methods and orders groups in a way that makes sense
• lazy loads ganache
• probably some other stuff

Known Issues:

• arguments list is one string, returns are split on colon
• non-primitive types, like Transaction, DATA, QUANTITY, etc aren't documented
• TypeScript types for the ganache provider is not loaded into the editors
• The console and assert helpers in the editors are incomplete implementations (and lack types)

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• #4033 fix: improve styling and performance for interactive docs (@MicaiahReid)

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Top Priority:

• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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v7.7.6

 Fixes   Changelog   Known Issues   Future Plans 

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Thanks again to @MicaiahReid for his excellent work, and to @benams and @adjisb for their contributions!

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, open a PR to fix an existing issue if you really want to get involved.

We've changed 5 files across 2 merged pull requests, tallying 174 additions and 112 deletions, since our last release.

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• fix: eth get block transaction count by hash to work with forks (#3739)
• fix: log warning regarding transactions with future-nonces when in eager mode (#4166)

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fix: eth get block transaction count by hash to work with forks (#3739)

The RPC method eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash had a bug that caused it to not return results when requesting a block before the effective "forkBlockNumber".

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fix: log warning regarding transactions with future-nonces when in eager mode (#4166)

@benams ran into a confusing situation in which future-nonce transactions that are sent to Ganache running in eager mining mode (the default) appear to hang indefinitely, rather than being mined or rejected. This is expected behavior in eager mode, as Ganache does not return the hash until after it is mined. To help alleviate the confusion we now log a message about the status of these kinds of transactions.

Closes #4165

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• #3739 fix: eth get block transaction count by hash to work with forks (@adjisb)
• #4166 fix: log warning regarding transactions with future-nonces when in eager mode (@MicaiahReid)

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Top Priority:

• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.5

 Fixes   Changelog   Known Issues   Future Plans 

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Thanks to @davidmurdoch, @MicaiahReid, @tenthirtyone, and @haltman-at for your contributions to this release, which brings a fix to the debug_storageRangeAt RPC method.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, or open a PR to fix an existing issue.

We've changed 9 files across 2 merged pull requests, tallying 588 additions and 562 deletions, since our last release.

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fix: make debug_storageRangeAt return all known keys at transaction index (#3470)

debug_storageRangeAt would sometimes fail to find storage that was there at the start of the transaction if the storage slots were written to in the same block as the target transaction. Ganache now waits to read storage slots until after the requisite transactions in the block have been processed.

Fixes #3338, also fixes #3468

ci: remove python configuration from CI setup (#4238)

Remove unnecessary boilerplate setting npm python config.

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• #3470 fix: make debug_storageRangeAt return all known keys at transaction index (@davidmurdoch)
• #4238 ci: remove python configuration from CI setup (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.4

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Thanks to @MicaiahReid, @adjisb, @wysenynja, @sewinter, and @davidmurdoch for your contributions to this release, which brings a couple of big fixes.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, or open a PR to fix an existing issue.

We've changed 20 files across 4 merged pull requests, tallying 191 additions and 105 deletions, since our last release.

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• fix: remove setting of private property (#4145)
• fix: set the earliest block tag on startup when forking (#3755)
• fix: make port 0 bind to any available port (#4070)

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fix: remove setting of private property (#4145)

Before the latest upgrade of etheremjs-vm, we would manually set the _isInitialized property of the VM to avoid some extra computation that came along with initialization that we didn't need. After the ethereumjs-vm upgrade, creating the VM also initializes it, so this manual setting of the private property is unnecessary, but we didn't remove it. This change removes the manual setting of vm._isInitialized.

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fix: set the earliest block tag on startup when forking (#3755)

This change updates Ganache's startup procedure when forking to retrieve the earliest block from the remote and cache this block as the earliest block in Ganache's block manager. This fixes a bug where calling eth_getBlockByNumber with the "earliest" block tag parameter yielded no result.

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fix: make port 0 bind to any available port (#4070)

Specifying a port of 0 is a way to tell a server that you want the Operating System to let you bind to any open port. Ganache claimed to support binding to port 0, but would rudely yell at you if you tried: Port should be >= 0 and < 65536. Received 0 🤦! This PR rights our wrongs.

Using port 0 is useful when you don't care which port you bind to, you just want an open port.

You can use port 0 in a few ways:

On the cli:

$ ganache --port 0
…
RPC Listening on 127.0.0.1:35006

In detach mode:

note: port 0 binding in detach mode doesn't yet provide a scripting friendly way of returning the port

$ ganache --detach --port 0
frozen_caramel_doughnut

$ ganache instances list
┌───────┬─────────────────────────┬──────────┬─────────┬─────────────────┬────────┐
│   PID │ Name                    │ Flavor   │ Version │ Host            │ Uptime │
├───────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼────────┤
│ 58078 │ frozen_caramel_doughnut │ ethereum │ 7.7.3   │ 127.0.0.1:35006 │    14s │
└───────┴─────────────────────────┴──────────┴─────────┴─────────────────┴────────┘

and programmatically:

import ganache from "ganache";

const server = ganache.server();
await server.listen(0);
console.log("Listening on port: ", server.address().port);

Fixes #2643 and #3805

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docs: align whitespace in README (#4141)

Some whitespace wasn't aligned, now it is.

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• #4145 fix: remove setting of private property (@MicaiahReid)
• #3755 fix: set the earliest block tag on startup when forking (@adjisb)
• #4070 fix: make port 0 bind to any available port (@davidmurdoch)
• #4141 docs: align whitespace in README (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.3

 Fixes   Miscellaneous   Changelog   Known Issues   Future Plans 

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Thank you to our contributors @legobeat, @MicaiahReid, @brendene, and @jeffsmale90 for your contributions to this release!

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue, open a PR to fix an existing issue if you really want to get involved.

We've changed 18 files across 8 merged pull requests, tallying 184 additions and 140 deletions, since our last release.

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• fix: add "EADDRINUSE" as code to server Error (#4045)
• fix: store transactions with the correct effectiveGasPrice (#4112)
• fix: evm_revert fails in some cases (#4136)

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fix: add "EADDRINUSE" as code to server Error (#4045)

This PR sets the code property related to the error "listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use { address }" to "EADDRINUSE", making detecting this kind of "address in use" error programmatically much easier and straightforward. This property existed in Ganache v6 and earlier and was removed in v7.0.0 in error.

Previously:

{
  "message": "listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:5001"
}

Now:

{
  "code": "EADDRINUSE",
  "message": "listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:5001"
}

Fixes #4020

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fix: store transactions with the correct effectiveGasPrice (#4112)

Previously we were returning the wrong gasPrice when a transaction was fetched via eth_getTransactionByHash. This was happening because when we saved the transaction to the chain, we didn't update the transaction's effectiveGasPrice field based off of the baseFeePerGas of the block that the transaction was mined onto in some cases.

However, the effectiveGasPrice returned on a receipt was correct because when the receipt was fetched, we would calculate the effectiveGasPrice on the fly just to correct what we return to the user, rather than directly using what the database returned.

This change removes the on-the-fly calculation of the effectiveGasPrice on the receipt, and presets the transaction's effectiveGasPrice based off of the next block's baseFeePerGas when the transaction is added to the pool. As block's are mined, the miner updates all pending transaction's effectiveGasPrice based off of the next block's baseFeePerGas.

Fixes #4094.

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fix: evm_revert fails in some cases (#4136)

Resolves an issue where evm_revert would fail with error .for is not iterable. This happened when a user would attempt to revert a change that deletes a key that exists in an upstream network.

fixes: #4093

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• ci: update docker release action (#4030)
• docs: expand on troubleshooting node-gyp errors (#4013)
• ci: drop macos-11, add macos-12 (#3407)
• ci: update setup-python action to v4.4.0 (#4072)
• ci: drop ubuntu-18.04, add ubuntu-22.04 (#3405)

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ci: update docker release action (#4030)

Some of the GitHub Actions commands used by our Docker Publish Action are deprecated. This PR updates the Actions to versions that have since been updated to stop using these deprecated commands.

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docs: expand on troubleshooting node-gyp errors (#4013)

This PR adds a note in our CONTRIBUTING.MD document that instructs contributors to ensure they do not use npm as the root user.

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ci: drop macos-11, add macos-12 (#3407)

Just updating CI to run the newer macos-12 runner instead of macos-11.

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ci: update setup-python action to v4.4.0 (#4072)

The GitHub Actions runner was warning about deprecated API use by the setup-python package, so this PR updates it to the latest tagged version.

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ci: drop ubuntu-18.04, add ubuntu-22.04 (#3405)

Updating CI, including the "Release" action, to use Ubuntu 22.04, while also dropping support for ubuntu-18.04.

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• #4030 ci: update docker release action (@davidmurdoch)
• #4013 docs: expand on troubleshooting node-gyp errors (@legobeat)
• #3407 ci: drop macos-11, add macos-12 (@davidmurdoch)
• #4045 fix: add "EADDRINUSE" as code to server Error (@davidmurdoch)
• #4072 ci: update setup-python action to v4.4.0 (@davidmurdoch)
• #3405 ci: drop ubuntu-18.04, add ubuntu-22.04 (@davidmurdoch)
• #4112 fix: store transactions with the correct effectiveGasPrice (@MicaiahReid)
• #4136 fix: evm_revert fails in some cases (@jeffsmale90)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all bloc...

v7.7.2

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Here's another hotfix that corrects issues for some users facing Unhandled Promise Rejection... on NodeJs/Operating System combinations using eth_estimateGas.

We've changed 5 files across 2 merged pull requests, tallying 59 additions and 295 deletions, since our last release.

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fix: handle eth_gasEstimate reverts correctly to prevent potential process crash (#4056)

When updating to support the Merge hardfork code that handled eth_gasEstimate was refactored. A code block that previously "short circuited" the function no longer did, causing a JavaScript Promise to be fullfilled with a handled rejection, but then also an unhandled rejection. 🦡

We've fixed the short circuit code and added a test to prevent this from regressing in the future.

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chore: remove Promise.allSettled shim (#4003)

This was TODO'd to be removed if we bumped typescript to 4.2.3+

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• #4003 chore: remove Promise.allSettled shim (@tenthirtyone)
• #4056 fix: handle eth_gasEstimate reverts correctly to prevent potential process crash (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.1

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We released v7.7.0 yesterday, but it caused installation problems for Windows users without windows-build-tools. This hot fix resolves the issue for those affected users.

If you are still experiencing issues installing Ganache please open a new issue.

We've changed 3 files across 3 merged pull requests, tallying 12 additions and 9 deletions, since our last release.

To install this latest release, run

npm install ganache@latest --global

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fix: add leveldown back to bundle for Windows installation (#4046)

For reasons not yet understood, the leveldown package must be bundled or installations on Windows without windows-build-tools installed fails. This puts the leveldown package back into the ganache package's bundledDependencies.

This PR also introduces changes to our CI process to build a release candidate tarball during test runs.

Fixes #3661

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• docs: fix build status badge on README.md (#4048)
• chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (#4052)

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docs: fix build status badge on README.md (#4048)

Reason for this change: badges/shields#8671

Before:

After:

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chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (#4052)

In my haste to get the hot fix out to fix v7.7.0 I added a release candidate tarball to a PR and we didn't notice until it was merged into the develop branch 🤦. This PR just removes that mistake.

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• #4046 fix: add leveldown back to bundle for Windows installation (@davidmurdoch)
• #4048 docs: fix build status badge on README.md (@davidmurdoch)
• #4052 chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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v7.7.0

 New Features   Miscellaneous   Changelog   Known Issues   Future Plans 

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It's been just two days since our last release, but we just couldn't wait any longer! This release has just two PRs, one which adds support for the Merge to Ganache, and the other which fixes an issue with the previous PR 😅. Skip ahead to read the details of the Merge PR.

We use your feedback to plan our roadmap, so if you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a 👍 and we'll use this community feedback to help prioritize what we work on! Or better yet, open a new issue or open a PR to fix an existing issue.

We've changed 134 files across 2 merged pull requests, tallying 7230 additions and 4319 deletions, since our last release.

To install this latest release, run

npm install ganache@latest --global

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feat: add support for the merge hardfork (#3971)

This release (re)introduces support for the Merge! In preparation for the merge, our friends at ethereumjs were working hard on a huge new release with quite a few breaking changes. Because we rely so heavily on the work that ethereumjs does, these breaking changes impacted just about every nook and cranny of the Ganache code base. We wanted to get the merge features to our users as soon as possible, while also doing our due diligence to make sure the sweeping changes made by the ethereumjs upgrade don't affect Ganache's stability. With all that in mind, we released Ganache v7.4.4-alpha.0 back in September with support for the Merge. This PR brings that set of features to our stable release.

This introduces a few important changes and features that are worth explaining.

Dropping Node v12 Support

Upgrading ethereumjs required dropping support for Node.js v12. In Ganache v7.0.0 we gave a deprecation notice for Node.js v12, and this release finalizes the removal of support for this version. To use Ganache, you'll need to install Node.js v14 or greater.

New Block Tags

One new feature that could potentially impact our users is the introduction of the finalized and safe block tags. These can be used with eth_getBlockByNumber, or any other RPC method that receives a block tag:

const finalizeBlock = await provider.request({ method: "eth_getBlockByNumber", params: ["finalized", true] } );
const safeBlock = await provider.request({ method: "eth_getBlockByNumber", params: ["safe", true] } );

Note: These new block tags are aliases for the existing latest block tag.

New Default Hardfork

The new default hardfork when starting Ganache is merge. To start Ganache with a different hardfork, use the --chain.hardfork option.

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ci: remove node 12 from CI tests (#4029)

You know when you spend a really long time on a big PR and finally think you've got every little detail settled, then the whole team reviews the PR and finds a few other little things that you fix, then they all approve the PR, so you all think you've got every little detail settled, then you finally merge the PR and you immediately realize that you forgot to remove a now unsupported version of node from your CI tests that only run once the PR has been merged into develop, so now you have to make another PR to remove the now unsupported node version from your CI tests? Yeah I hate when that happens.

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• #3971 feat: add support for the merge hardfork (@MicaiahReid)
• #4029 ci: remove node 12 from CI tests (@MicaiahReid)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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