v7.9.0

[davidmurdoch]

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Presenting the latest version of Ganache! This release brings a couple of important bug fixes and one new feature: the ability to specify a file path for Ganache to write logs to – handy when using detach mode, where the logs are not (yet) available.

If you have some time, we encourage you to browse our issues to find anything you'd like implemented/fixed sooner. Give them a +1 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 59 files across 14 merged pull requests, tallying 2485 additions and 563 deletions, since our last release.

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• feat: add hardfork to cli output (#4343)
• feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument (#4195)

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feat: add hardfork to cli output (#4343)

Ganache now outputs the hardfork to the console along with the rest of the startup information:

Chain
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Hardfork: shanghai
Id:       1337

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feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument (#4195)

Introducing the ability to specify a log file for Ganache to write its logs to. No more sifting through endless terminal output to find that one critical message you need. Just provide a path to your desired log file with ganache --logging.file <path-to-log-file>, and you're all set! Now you can sit back, relax, and let Ganache do the heavy lifting while you focus on building awesome applications.

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• fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand (#4368)
• fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp (#4455)
• fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition (#4463)
• fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks (#4465)

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fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand (#4368)

When ganache instances is executed, a subcommand must be provided.
Previously an unhelpful error was thrown, with this fix we output a simple error message, followed by the the help text for ganache instances.

$ ganache instances
ganache instances requires a subcommand:

ganache instances

Manage instances of Ganache running in detached mode.
(Ganache can be run in detached mode by providing the --detach flag)

Commands:
  ganache instances list         List instances running in detached mode
  ganache instances stop <name>  Stop the instance specified by <name>

Options:
  -?, --help  Show help                                                                           [boolean]

fixes: #4360

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fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp (#4455)

Starting with Shanghai, hardforks are determined by timestamp, rather than block number. When resolving the hardfork to use for a given block, we now consider the blocknumber and the timestamp.

fixes: #4450 (in that the correct hardfork is now resolved, which is not mergeForkIdTransition)

See #4463

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fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition (#4463)

Add internal support for mergeForkIdTransition "hardfork", which is presently live only on Sepolia, but assumedly will eventually happen on other networks.

This doesn't add any functionality, but fixes: #4450 for transactions happening on mergeForkIdTransition hardfork.

See #4455

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fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks (#4465)

Fixes #4359

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• docs: update contributing guide for linux (#4358)
• chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command (#4357)
• test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI (#4353)
• docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md (#4036)
• perf: optimize account init logging (#4318)
• docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals (#4383)
• perf: optimize options normalization (#4317)
• docs: preloads docs assets (#4384)

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docs: update contributing guide for linux (#4358)

Python 2.7 is no longer a requirement to build ganache, but make is.

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chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command (#4357)

This is just to make ganache development from WSL easier.

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test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI (#4353)

Previously, tests that depend on an INFURA_KEY would be skipped if it were not provided. After this change these tests will fail in CI if no INFURA_KEY is provided.

Additionally, a test which was previously skipped is now run on Windows and Linux agents in Github Actions only. ( > server > listens on given interface only)

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docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md (#4036)

Does what it says on the tin.

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perf: optimize account init logging (#4318)

Minor performance improvement on startup.

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docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals (#4383)

Changes the contrast on links on ganache.dev in light mode.

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perf: optimize options normalization (#4317)

Minor performance improvement on start up.

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docs: preloads docs assets (#4384)

Reduces page load time on ganache.dev by initiating downloads of assets that will get loaded from other CSS and JS files later.

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• docs: update contributing guide for linux #4358 docs: update contributing guide for linux (@davidmurdoch)
• chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command #4357 chore: use localhost as hostname for docs.preview dev command (@davidmurdoch)
• test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI #4353 test: ensure tests that are skipped in development are run in CI (@jeffsmale90)
• feat: add hardfork to cli output #4343 feat: add hardfork to cli output (@davidmurdoch)
• fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand #4368 fix: show a helpful message when ganache instances is executed without a subcommand (@jeffsmale90)
• docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md #4036 docs: complete macOS node-gyp troubleshooting steps in CONTRIBUTING.md (@OnlyOneJMJQ)
• perf: optimize account init logging #4318 perf: optimize account init logging (@davidmurdoch)
• docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals #4383 docs: make light-mode links slightly darker to meet WCAG 2 Level AA contrast goals (@davidmurdoch)
• perf: optimize options normalization #4317 perf: optimize options normalization (@davidmurdoch)
• feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument #4195 feat: allow logs to be written to a file by providing the --logging.file argument (@jeffsmale90)
• fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp #4455 fix: resolve hardfork for blocks by blocknumber and timestamp (@jeffsmale90)
• fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition #4463 fix: add support for mergeForkIdTransition (@jeffsmale90)
• fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks #4465 fix: ensure clique-signer for PoA networks (@davidmurdoch)
• docs: preloads docs assets #4384 docs: preloads docs assets (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• interactive documentation's debug_storageRangeAt doesn't work (#3203)
• 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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Open new issues to influence what we gets implemented and prioritized.

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This discussion was created from the release v7.9.0.