[Snyk] Upgrade web3-core-helpers from 1.8.2 to 1.9.0

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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade web3-core-helpers from 1.8.2 to 1.9.0.

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Release notes

Package name: web3-core-helpers

• 1.9.0 - 2023-03-20
  

  Fixed

  • Fixed skipped ws-ganache tests (#5759)
  • Fixed "provider started to reconnect error" in web3-provider-ws (#5820)
  • Fixed Error: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits (#5845)
  • Fixed types for packages which have default exports but not declared default export in .d.ts (#5866)
  • Fixed Transaction type by adding missing properties (#5856)

  Changed

  • Add optional hexFormat param to getTransaction and getBlock that accepts the value 'hex' (#5845)
  • utils.toNumber and utils.hexToNumber can now return the large unsafe numbers as BigInt, if true was passed to a new optional parameter called bigIntOnOverflow (#5845)
  • Updated @ types/bn.js dependency to 5.1.1 in web3, web3-core and web3-eth-contract as reason mentioned in #5640 (#5885)
  • Add description to error for failed connection on websocket (#5884)

  Security

  • Updated dependencies (#5885)
• 1.9.0-rc.0 - 2023-03-07
  

  Fixed

  • Fixed skipped ws-ganache tests (#5759)
  • Fixed "provider started to reconnect error" in web3-provider-ws (#5820)
  • Fixed Error: Number can only safely store up to 53 bits (#5845)
  • Fixed types for packages which have default exports but not declared default export in .d.ts (#5866)
  • Fixed Transaction type by adding missing properties (#5856)

  Changed

  • Add optional hexFormat param to getTransaction and getBlock that accepts the value 'hex' (#5845)
  • utils.toNumber and utils.hexToNumber can now return the large unsafe numbers as BigInt, if true was passed to a new optional parameter called bigIntOnOverflow (#5845)
  • Updated @ types/bn.js dependency to 5.1.1 in web3, web3-core and web3-eth-contract as reason mentioned in #5640 (#5885)
  • Add description to error for failed connection on websocket (#5884)

  Security

  • Updated dependencies (#5885)
• 1.8.2 - 2023-01-30
  

  Changed

  • Updated Webpack 4 to Webpack 5, more details at (#5629)
  • crypto-browserify module is now used only in webpack builds for polyfilling browsers (#5629)
  • Updated ethereumjs-util to 7.1.5 (#5629)
  • Updated lerna 4 to version 6 (#5680)
  • Bump utils 0.12.0 to 0.12.5 (#5691)

  Fixed

  • Fixed types for web3.utils._jsonInterfaceMethodToString (#5550)
  • Fixed Next.js builds failing on Node.js v16, Abortcontroller added if it doesn't exist globally (#5601)
  • Builds fixed by updating all typescript versions to 4.1 (#5675)

  Removed

  • clean-webpack-plugin has been removed from dev-dependencies (#5629)

  Added

  • https-browserify, process, stream-browserify, stream-http, crypto-browserify added to dev-dependencies for polyfilling (#5629)
  • Add readable-stream to dev-dependancies for webpack (#5629)

  Security

  • npm audit fix for libraries update (#5726)

from web3-core-helpers GitHub release notes

Commit messages

Package name: web3-core-helpers

• db5f505 Build for 1.9.0
• 908604b v1.9.0
• c564ebe Build commit for 1.9.0-rc.0
• 8ae1e23 v1.9.0-rc.0
• da51334 npm i and changelog update
• 2b3fb3a Nikos/5835/websocket provider keeps important error message back (Nikos/5835/websocket provider keeps important error message back web3/web3.js#5884)
• ef23642 dependencies updates (dependencies updates web3/web3.js#5885)
• 8d369a9 Nikos/5821/transaction type fix (Nikos/5821/transaction type fix web3/web3.js#5856)
• afa2943 fix types default export (fix types default export web3/web3.js#5852) (fix types default export (#5852) web3/web3.js#5866)
• e4b25bf Add optional param `hex` to `getTransaction` and `getBlock`. (Add optional param hex to getTransaction and getBlock. web3/web3.js#5845)
• 8621030 handled "provider started to reconnect error" (handled "provider started to reconnect error" web3/web3.js#5820)
• 5009bdd Update web3-eth-accounts.rst (Update web3-eth-accounts.rst web3/web3.js#5810)
• 5807398 updating ganache failing test (updating ganache failing test web3/web3.js#5779)
• 630c048 Fix: minor typos (Fix: minor typos web3/web3.js#5734)
• bcb918b Spelling Mistake Corrected (Spelling correction API Reference -> Web3 -> utils #5758 Solved  web3/web3.js#5784)
• 632c5d3 1.8.2 (1.8.2 web3/web3.js#5740)

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