web3.py/CHANGELOG

3.8.1
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* Bugfix for `eth_sign` double hashing input.
* Removed deprecated `DelegatedSigningManager`
* Removed deprecate `PrivateKeySigningManager`

3.8.0
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* Update pyrlp dependency to `>=0.4.7`
* Update eth-testrpc dependency to `>=1.2.0`
* Deprecate `DelegatedSigningManager`
* Deprecate `PrivateKeySigningManager`

3.7.1
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* upstream version bump for bugfix in eth-abi-utils

3.7.0
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* deprecate `eth.defaultAccount` defaulting to the coinbase account.

3.6.2
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* Fix error message from contract factory creation.
* Use `ethereum-utils` for utility functions.

3.6.1
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* Upgrade `ethereum-abi-utils` dependency for upstream bugfix.

3.6.0
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* Deprecate `Contract.code`: replaced by `Contract.bytecode`
* Deprecate `Contract.code_runtime`: replaced by `Contract.bytecode_runtime`
* Deprecate `abi`, `code`, `code_runtime` and `source` as arguments for the `Contract` object.
* Deprecate `source` as a property of the `Contract` object
* Add `Contract.factory()` API.
* Deprecate the `construct_contract_factory` helper function.

3.5.3
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* Bugfix for how `requests` library is used.  Now reuses session.

3.5.2
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* Bugfix for construction of `request_kwargs` within HTTPProvider

3.5.1
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* Allow `HTTPProvider` to be imported from `web3` module.
* make `HTTPProvider` accessible as a property of `web3` instances.

3.5.0
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* Deprecate `web3.providers.rpc.RPCProvider`
* Deprecate `web3.providers.rpc.KeepAliveRPCProvider`
* Add new `web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider`
* Remove hard dependency on gevent.

3.4.4
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* Bugfix for `web3.eth.getTransaction` when the hash is unknown.

3.4.3
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* Bugfix for event log data decoding to properly handle dynamic sized values.
* New `web3.tester` module to access extra RPC functionality from `eth-testrpc`

3.4.2
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* Fix package so that `eth-testrpc` is not required.

3.4.1
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* Force gevent<1.2.0 until this issue is fixed: https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/916

3.4.0
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* Bugfix for contract instances to respect `web3.eth.defaultAccount`
* Better error reporting when ABI decoding fails for contract method response.

3.3.0
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* New `EthereumTesterProvider` now available.  Faster test runs than `TestRPCProvider`
* Updated underlying eth-testrpc requirement.

3.2.0
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* `web3.shh` is now implemented.
* Introduced `KeepAliveRPCProvider` to correctly recycle HTTP connections and use HTTP keep alive

3.1.1
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* Bugfix for contract transaction sending not respecting the
  `web3.eth.defaultAccount` configuration.

3.1.0
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* New DelegatedSigningManager and PrivateKeySigningManager classes.

3.0.2
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* Bugfix or IPCProvider not handling large JSON responses well.

3.0.1
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* Better RPC compliance to be compatable with the Parity JSON-RPC server.

3.0.0
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* `Filter` objects now support controlling the interval through which they poll
  using the `poll_interval` property

2.9.0
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* Bugfix generation of event topics.
* Web3.Iban now allows access to Iban address tools.

2.8.1
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* Bugfix for `geth.ipc` path on linux systems.

2.8.0
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* Changes to the `Contract` API:
    * `Contract.deploy()` parameter arguments renamed to args
    * `Contract.deploy()` now takes args and kwargs parameters to allow
      constructing with keyword arguments or positional arguments.
    * `Contract.pastEvents` now allows you to specify a `fromBlock or
      `toBlock.` Previously these were forced to be `'earliest'` and
      `web3.eth.blockNumber` respectively.
    * `Contract.call`, `Contract.transact` and `Contract.estimateGas` are now
      callable as class methods as well as instance methods. When called this
      way, an address must be provided with the transaction parameter.
    * `Contract.call`, `Contract.transact` and `Contract.estimateGas` now allow
      specifying an alternate address for the transaction.
* `RPCProvider` now supports the following constructor arguments.
    * `ssl` for enabling SSL
    * `connection_timeout` and `network_timeout` for controlling the timeouts
      for requests.

2.7.1
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* Bugfix: Fix KeyError in merge_args_and_kwargs helper fn.

2.7.0
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* Bugfix for usage of block identifiers 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending'
* Sphinx documentation
* Non-data transactions now default to 90000 gas.
* Web3 object now has helpers set as static methods rather than being set at
  initialization.
* RPCProvider now takes a `path` parameter to allow configuration for requests
  to go to paths other than `/`.

2.6.0
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* TestRPCProvider no longer dumps logging output to stdout and stderr.
* Bugfix for return types of `address[]`
* Bugfix for event data types of `address`

2.5.0
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* All transactions which contain a `data` element will now have their gas
  automatically estimated with 100k additional buffer.  This was previously
  only true with transactions initiated from a `Contract` object.

2.4.0
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* Contract functions can now be called using keyword arguments.

2.3.0
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* Upstream fixes for filters
* Filter APIs `on` and `pastEvents` now callable as both instance and class methods.

2.2.0
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* The filters that come back from the contract `on` and `pastEvents` methods
  now call their callbacks with the same data format as `web3.js`.

2.1.1
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* Cast RPCProvider port to an integer.

2.1.0
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* Remove all monkeypatching

2.0.0
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* Pull in downstream updates to proper gevent usage.
* Fix `eth_sign`
* Bugfix with contract operations mutating the transaction object that is passed in.
* More explicit linting ignore statements.

1.9.0
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* BugFix: fix for python3 only `json.JSONDecodeError` handling.

1.8.0
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* BugFix: `RPCProvider` not sending a content-type header
* Bugfix: `web3.toWei` now returns an integer instead of a decimal.Decimal

1.7.1
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* `TestRPCProvider` can now be imported directly from `web3`

1.7.0
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* Add `eth.admin` interface.
* Bugfix: Format the return value of `web3.eth.syncing`
* Bugfix: IPCProvider socket interactions are now more robust.

1.6.0
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* Downstream package upgrades for `eth-testrpc` and `ethereum-tester-client` to
  handle configuration of the Homestead and DAO fork block numbers.

1.5.0
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* Rename `web3.contract._Contract` to `web3.contract.Contract`
  to expose it for static analysis and auto completion tools
* Allow passing string parameters to functions
* Automatically compute gas requirements for contract deployment and
* transactions.
* Contract Filters
* Block, Transaction, and Log filters
* `web3.eth.txpool` interface
* `web3.eth.mining` interface
* Fixes for encoding.

1.4.0
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* Bugfix to allow address types in constructor arguments.

1.3.0
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* Partial implementation of the `web3.eth.contract` interface.

1.2.0
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* Restructure project modules to be more *flat*
* Add ability to run test suite without the *slow* tests.
* Breakup `encoding` utils into smaller modules.
* Basic pep8 formatting.
* Apply python naming conventions to internal APIs
* Lots of minor bugfixes.
* Removal of dead code left behing from `1.0.0` refactor.
* Removal of `web3/solidity` module.

1.1.0
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* Add missing `isConnected()` method.
* Add test coverage for `setProvider()`

1.0.1
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* Specify missing `pyrlp` and `gevent` dependencies

1.0.0
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* Massive refactor to the majority of the app.

0.1.0
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TODO