diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b957ee65fc..c5cd9451f0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
     "start": "lerna exec --loglevel=silent --scope ganache -- npm run start --silent -- ",
     "test": "lerna exec --concurrency 1 -- npm run test",
     "tsc": "tsc --build",
-    "tsc.clean": "npx lerna exec -- npx shx rm -rf lib dist typings"
+    "tsc.clean": "npx lerna exec -- npx shx rm -rf lib dist typings",
+    "update-ethereumjs": "cd scripts && ts-node update-ethereumjs"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@istanbuljs/nyc-config-typescript": "1.0.2",
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/server.test.ts b/packages/core/tests/server.test.ts
index bf83ed3de2..18d339d5c7 100644
--- a/packages/core/tests/server.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/tests/server.test.ts
@@ -461,7 +461,9 @@ describe("server", () => {
       } finally {
         await teardown();
       }
-    });
+      // TODO: this test can take a while on mac in CI, figure out why
+      // https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache/issues/4505
+    }).timeout(0);
 
     it("fails to `.listen()` twice, Callback", async () => {
       await setup();
@@ -514,9 +516,19 @@ describe("server", () => {
 
         await s.close();
 
-        const error = await post("localhost", port, jsonRpcJson, agent).catch(e => e);
-        assert(error instanceof Error, `Expected error to be an instance of Error, but got ${error} instead`);
-        assert("code" in error && (error["code"] === "ECONNREFUSED" || error["code"] === "ECONNRESET"), `Expected error.code to be ECONNREFUSED or ECONNRESET, got ${error} instead`);
+        const error = await post("localhost", port, jsonRpcJson, agent).catch(
+          e => e
+        );
+        assert(
+          error instanceof Error,
+          `Expected error to be an instance of Error, but got ${error} instead`
+        );
+        assert(
+          "code" in error &&
+            (error["code"] === "ECONNREFUSED" ||
+              error["code"] === "ECONNRESET"),
+          `Expected error.code to be ECONNREFUSED or ECONNRESET, got ${error} instead`
+        );
       } finally {
         teardown();
       }
diff --git a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/api.ts b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/api.ts
index 93d5674e8a..c4289b6825 100644
--- a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/api.ts
+++ b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/api.ts
@@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ export default class EthereumApi implements Api {
 
     const messageHash = hashPersonalMessage(Data.toBuffer(message));
     const { v, r, s } = ecsign(messageHash, privateKey.toBuffer());
-    return toRpcSig(v, r, s);
+    return toRpcSig(v + 27n, r, s);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/miner/miner.ts b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/miner/miner.ts
index 3cb1684d9c..6c1621c273 100644
--- a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/miner/miner.ts
+++ b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/src/miner/miner.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export type BlockData = {
 
 const updateBloom = (blockBloom: Buffer, bloom: Buffer) => {
   let i = 256;
-  while (--i) blockBloom[i] |= bloom[i];
+  while (i--) blockBloom[i] |= bloom[i];
 };
 
 const sortByPrice = (values: TypedTransaction[], a: number, b: number) =>
diff --git a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/tests/api/eth/sign.test.ts b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/tests/api/eth/sign.test.ts
index ecfab32d06..f57726ba4e 100644
--- a/packages/ethereum/ethereum/tests/api/eth/sign.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ethereum/ethereum/tests/api/eth/sign.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
 } from "@ethereumjs/util";
 import getProvider from "../../helpers/getProvider";
 import { Data, Quantity } from "@ganache/utils";
+import { sign } from "crypto";
 
 describe("api", () => {
   describe("eth", () => {
@@ -37,10 +38,17 @@ describe("api", () => {
         const msgHash = hashPersonalMessage(msg);
 
         const address = accounts[0];
-        let sgn = await provider.send("eth_sign", [
+        let sgn: string = await provider.send("eth_sign", [
           address,
           Data.toString(msg)
         ]);
+
+        assert.strictEqual(
+          sgn.substring(sgn.length - 2),
+          "1c", // 28 in hex
+          "eth_sign should produce a v value of 27 or 28"
+        );
+
         const { v, r, s } = fromRpcSig(sgn);
 
         const pub = ecrecover(msgHash, v, r, s);
@@ -59,7 +67,14 @@ describe("api", () => {
 
         let sgn = await provider.send("eth_sign", [accounts[0], msgHex]);
 
+        assert.strictEqual(
+          sgn.substring(sgn.length - 2),
+          "1c", // 28 in hex
+          "eth_sign should produce a v value of 27 or 28"
+        );
+
         const { v, r, s } = fromRpcSig(sgn);
+
         const pub = ecrecover(msgHash, v, r, s);
         const addr = fromSigned(pubToAddress(pub));
         const strAddr = Data.toString(Quantity.toBuffer(addr), 20);
diff --git a/packages/ganache/README.md b/packages/ganache/README.md
index 0075c03c3b..584608a4ce 100644
--- a/packages/ganache/README.md
+++ b/packages/ganache/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!-- Using h2 instead of h1 because npm doesn't support align=center on h1 tags -->
 <h2 align="center">
-  <a href="#readme" title="Ganache README.md"><img alt="Ganache" src="https://ganache.dev/assets/img/ganache-logo-dark.svg" alt="Ganache" width="160"/></a>
+  <a href="#readme" title="Ganache README.md"><img alt="Ganache" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trufflesuite/ganache/develop/docs/assets/img/ganache-logo-dark.svg" alt="Ganache" width="160"/></a>
 </h2>
 
 <h3 align="center">
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Ganache is an Ethereum simulator that makes developing Ethereum applications fas
 - Listens for JSON-RPC 2.0 requests over HTTP/WebSockets
 - Programmatic use in Node.js
 - Pending Transactions
+- <a href="https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache/tree/develop/packages/flavor#readme">Flavors</a> (aka Plugins), like <a href="https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-plugin-filecoin/tree/main/packages/filecoin#readme">Filecoin</a>
 
 ## Getting Started
 
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ You can use Ganache programmatically from Node.js. Install Ganache into your npm
 $ npm install ganache
 ```
 
-Then you can use ganache as an [EIP-1193 provider only](#as-an-eip-1193-provider-only), an [EIP-1193 provider and JSON-RPC web server](#as-an-eip-1193-provider-and-json-rpc-web-server), as a [Web3 provider](#as-a-web3js-provider), or an [ethers provider](#as-an-ethersjs-provider).
+Then you can use ganache as an [EIP-1193 provider only](#as-an-eip-1193-provider-only), an [EIP-1193 provider and JSON-RPC web server](#as-an-eip-1193-provider-and-json-rpc-web-server), as a [Web3 provider](#as-a-web3js-provider), an [ethers provider](#as-an-ethersjs-provider), or a [viem transport](#as-a-viem-transport).
 
 #### As an EIP-1193 provider only:
 
@@ -203,6 +204,20 @@ const ganache = require("ganache");
 const provider = new ethers.providers.Web3Provider(ganache.provider());
 ```
 
+#### As a [viem](https://www.npmjs.com/package/viem) transport:
+
+To use a ganache provider as a viem transport:
+
+```javascript
+import { createWalletClient, custom } from "viem";
+import { localhost } from "viem/chains";
+import ganache from "ganache";
+const client = createWalletClient({
+  chain: localhost,
+  transport: custom(ganache.provider())
+});
+```
+
 ### Browser Use
 
 You can also use Ganache in the browser by adding the following script to your HTML:
diff --git a/scripts/update-ethereum-js.ts b/scripts/update-ethereum-js.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8cc014d9a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update-ethereum-js.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+// search through all folders in the parent directory to find all package.json
+// files. Then read each file looking for ethereumjs dependencies,
+// devDependencies, or optionalDependencies. If found, update the version
+// number to the latest version on npm (by querying the npm registry).
+
+import * as fs from "fs";
+import * as path from "path";
+import * as util from "util";
+import * as child_process from "child_process";
+import * as https from "https";
+
+const readdir = util.promisify(fs.readdir);
+const readFile = util.promisify(fs.readFile);
+const writeFile = util.promisify(fs.writeFile);
+const exec = util.promisify(child_process.exec);
+
+const parentDir = path.resolve(__dirname, "../");
+
+async function findPackageFiles(dir: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  const files: string[] = [];
+  const dirents = await readdir(dir, { withFileTypes: true });
+
+  for (const dirent of dirents) {
+    const res = path.resolve(dir, dirent.name);
+    if (dirent.isDirectory() && dirent.name !== "node_modules") {
+      const subFiles = await findPackageFiles(res);
+      files.push(...subFiles);
+    } else if (dirent.isFile() && dirent.name === "package.json") {
+      files.push(res);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return files;
+}
+
+const cache = new Map<string, Buffer>();
+
+async function updateDependencies(packagePath: string) {
+  const packageData = await readFile(packagePath, { encoding: "utf-8" });
+  const packageJson = JSON.parse(packageData);
+
+  const dependencies = [
+    [[...Object.entries(packageJson.dependencies ?? {})], "dependencies"],
+    [[...Object.entries(packageJson.devDependencies ?? {})], "devDependencies"],
+    [
+      [...Object.entries(packageJson.optionalDependencies ?? {})],
+      "optionalDependencies"
+    ]
+  ] as [[string, string][], string][];
+
+  let changed = false;
+
+  for (const [matches, group] of dependencies) {
+    for (const [name, version] of matches) {
+      if (name.startsWith("@ethereumjs/")) {
+        const response = cache.has(name)
+          ? cache.get(name)!
+          : await new Promise<Buffer>((resolve, reject) => {
+              https
+                .get(`https://registry.npmjs.org/${name}`, res => {
+                  const chunks: Uint8Array[] = [];
+                  res.on("data", chunk => chunks.push(chunk));
+                  res.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks)));
+                })
+                .on("error", reject);
+            });
+        if (cache.has(name)) {
+          cache.set(name, response);
+        }
+        const registryData = JSON.parse(response.toString());
+        const latestVersion = registryData["dist-tags"].latest;
+        if (version !== latestVersion) {
+          packageJson[group][name] = latestVersion;
+          changed = true;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (changed) {
+    await writeFile(packagePath, JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2));
+  }
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  const packagePaths = await findPackageFiles(parentDir);
+
+  for (const packagePath of packagePaths) {
+    await updateDependencies(packagePath);
+  }
+
+  await exec("npm run reinstall", { cwd: parentDir });
+}
+
+main().catch(console.error);