v1.7.1-rc.0

[jdevcs]

Added

• transactionPollingInterval added to web3, contract and method constructor options. defaults to 1 second. (add: custom transaction polling interval #4584)
• Add example import for package level types (Add example import for package level types #4611)

Fixed

• Fix a typo in the documentation for methods.myMethod.send (Fix a typo #4599)
• Use globalThis to locate global object if possible (Update helpers.js #4613)
• Fix typos in web3-utils.rst (Fix typos in web3-utils.rst #4662)
• Added effectiveGasPrice to TransactionReceipt (TransactionReceipt should support effectiveGasPrice #4692)
• Correction in documentation for web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction (doc update for chainId #4576)
• Updated README to include Webpack 5 create-react-app support instructions (Webpack5 support for create-react-app  #4173)
• Update the documentation for methods.myMethod.estimateGas (Update estimateGas documentation #4702)
• Fix typos in REVIEW.md and TESTING.md (Fix typos in REVIEW.md and TESTING.md #4691)
• Fix encoding for "0x" string values ('0x' strings returned by contract are incorrectly interpreted as nulls #4512)

Changed

• Muted E2E gnosis dex tests in CI until fix for issue Failing e2e_gnosis_dex test #4436 is applied (e2e_gnosis_dex mute #4701)

Removed

• Removed deprecated Morden testnet code (Remove morden testnet #4339)

Security

• Ran npm audit fix to address vulnerabilities and update libraries (updating libs #4719) (updating library #4728)

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[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 1927078793

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• 265 unchanged lines in 7 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage increased (+2.3%) to 75.007%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
packages/web3-core-requestmanager/src/jsonrpc.js	1	70.0%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/formatters.js	7	85.42%
packages/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js	29	1.56%
packages/web3-utils/src/soliditySha3.js	34	3.43%
packages/web3-utils/src/index.js	43	31.38%
packages/web3-utils/src/utils.js	44	9.66%
packages/web3-eth-accounts/src/index.js	107	23.67%

Totals
Change from base Build 1914585426:	2.3%
Covered Lines:	3253
Relevant Lines:	4103

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[jdevcs]

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

(This list will be actively edited)

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

[ghost]

Could I ask to include this PR before merging this? #4808

[spacesailor24]

@0xayanami Unfortunately no, the feature list for this release was frozen when the RC was first made. We'll discuss internally about including this in the next release though, thank you for your participation in maintaining Web3.js