v1.5.3

[spacesailor24]

Fixed

• Unable to send legacy transaction if network supported EIP-1559 (EIP-1559 Fix Issue #4258 #4277)

Changed

• ethers from 5.1.4 to 5.4.4 (Junaid/1xlibsfix #4231)
• karma from 5.2.3 to 6.3.4 (Junaid/1xlibsfix #4231)
• lerna from 3.22.1 to 4.0.0 (Junaid/1xlibsfix #4231)
• Dropped build tests in CI for Node v8 and v10, and added support for Node v14
• Change default value for maxPriorityFeePerGas from 1 Gwei to 2.5 Gwei (Bump maxPriorityFeePerGas to 2.5 Gwei - Closes #4283 #4284)
• Fixed bug in signTransaction (signTransaction fix #4295)

[render]

Your Render PR Server URL is https://web3-js-pr-4308.onrender.com.

Follow its progress at https://dashboard.render.com/static/srv-c4tr19k1nok0f4aeebeg.

[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 1260452621

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• 422 unchanged lines in 7 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage decreased (-2.6%) to 72.915%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
packages/web3-core-requestmanager/src/jsonrpc.js	1	88.0%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/formatters.js	24	80.65%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js	31	4.41%
packages/web3-utils/src/soliditySha3.js	55	5.13%
packages/web3-utils/src/index.js	62	29.31%
packages/web3-utils/src/utils.js	85	13.04%
packages/web3-eth-accounts/src/index.js	164	25.31%

Totals
Change from base Build 1222417029:	-2.6%
Covered Lines:	3324
Relevant Lines:	4310

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💛 - Coveralls

[spacesailor24]

As part of the RC process, am doing some test installations in other projects and running their tests to see if everything.

• installs properly
• builds
• tests pass

Project	Desc	Status
oz-test-helpers	Test utils. Subset of their suite is web3 contracts	✅
synthetix	~1000 units	✅