v7.4.4

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With the end of September we mark the successful joining of the original execution layer of Ethereum with its new Proof-Of-Stake consensus layer, the Beacon Chain, better known as The Merge. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to Ethereum's transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

To our users interested in trying post-merge features check out Ganache v7.4.4-alpha.0.

A special thank you to our external contributor @eltociear and contributor @jeffsmale90 for their 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, or apply to join our team (we're hiring!) if you really want to get involved.

We've changed 8 files across 3 merged pull requests, tallying 119 additions and 49 deletions, since our last release.

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This release removes zero-config forking support for deprecated testnets: Kovan, Rinkeby, and Ropsten test networks in anticipation of Infura deprecating these testnets from the Infura API on October 5th, 2022. Infura recommends users migrate to Goerli to test deployments.

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fix: calling evm_mine with a timestamp argument should reflect the change of time in subsequent blocks (#3531)

Previously, calling evm_mine with a timestamp argument would result in a block with the specified timestamp, but subsequent blocks would have a timestamp that didn't reflect this change in time. This only occurred when miner.timestampIncrement is unspecified or clock.

const provider = ganache.provider();

await provider.request({ method: "evm_mine", params: ["0x1"] });
const { timestamp: firstTimestamp } = await provider.request({
  method: "eth_getBlockByNumber",
  params: ["latest", false],
});

// wait 1 second before mining the second block
await new Promise((resolve, reject) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));

await provider.request({ method: "evm_mine", params: [] });
const { timestamp: secondTimestamp } = await provider.request({
  method: "eth_getBlockByNumber",
  params: ["latest", false],
});

console.log({
  firstTimestamp,
  secondTimestamp,
});

Will output something like:

{ firstTimestamp: '0x1', secondTimestamp: '0x5e0be0ff' }

Where secondTimestamp is the current time in seconds, but should be 0x2.

With this change, blocks mined after providing a timestamp parameter to evm_mine, will have timestamps that reflect the change in time.

Fixes: #3265

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• refactor: remove support for deprecated test networks (#3732)
• refactor: fix typo in uint-to-buffer.ts (#3738)

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refactor: remove support for deprecated test networks (#3732)

Removes zero-config forking support for deprecated testnets: Kovan, Ropsten, and Rinkeby.

Fixes #3706

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refactor: fix typo in uint-to-buffer.ts (#3738)

Corrects missspelling of "signficant" to the more correct "significant".

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• #3531 fix: calling evm_mine with a timestamp argument should reflect the change of time in subsequent blocks (@jeffsmale90)
• #3732 refactor: remove support for deprecated test networks (@jeffsmale90)
• #3738 refactor: fix typo in uint-to-buffer.ts (@eltociear)

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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_feeHistory RPC endpoint (#1470)
• 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:

• Add flag for starting ganache in detached mode (#1001)
• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• Add eip-155 support (#880)
• 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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