v7.7.0

[MicaiahReid]

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