Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog (modification: no type change headlines) and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

7.0.9 - 2021-03-04

This release adds support for very high chainId numbers exceeding MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (an example is the chain ID 34180983699157880 used for the ephemeral Yolov3 testnet preparing for the berlin hardfork, but high chain IDs might be used for things like private test networks and the like as well).

Function signatures for methods in address and signature are therefore expanded to allow for a BNLike input type (BN | PrefixedHexString | number | Buffer) for chain ID related parameters.

All function signatures are still taking in a number input for backwards-compatibility reasons. If you use one of the following functions to implement generic use cases in your library where the chain ID is not yet known it is recommended to updated to one of the other input types (with plain Buffer likely be the most future-proof). Note that on some functions this changes the return value as well.

account: toChecksumAddresss(hexAddress: string, eip1191ChainId?: number): string
- -> toChecksumAddress = function(hexAddress: string, eip1191ChainId?: BNLike): string
account: isValidChecksumAddress(hexAddress: string, eip1191ChainId?: number)
- -> isValidChecksumAddress(hexAddress: string, eip1191ChainId?: BNLike)
signature: ecsign(msgHash: Buffer, privateKey: Buffer, chainId?: number): ECDSASignature
- -> ecsign(msgHash: Buffer, privateKey: Buffer, chainId?: number): ECDSASignature (return value stays the same on number input)
- -> ecsign(msgHash: Buffer, privateKey: Buffer, chainId: BNLike): ECDSASignatureBuffer (changed return value for other type inputs)
signature: ecrecover(msgHash: Buffer, v: number, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, chainId?: number): Buffer
- -> ecrecover(msgHash: Buffer, v: BNLike, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, chainId?: BNLike): Buffer
signature: toRpcSig(v: number, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, chainId?: number): string
- -> toRpcSig(v: BNLike, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, chainId?: BNLike): string
signature: isValidSignature(v: number, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, homesteadOrLater: boolean = true, chainId?: number)
- -> isValidSignature(v: BNLike, r: Buffer, s: Buffer, homesteadOrLater: boolean = true, chainId?: BNLike)

7.0.8 - 2021-02-01

New Address.equals(address: Address) function for easier address equality comparions, PR #285
Fixed a bug in fromRpcSig() in the signature module not working correctly for chain IDs greater than 110, PR #287

7.0.7 - 2020-10-15

Removed stateRoot check for Account.isEmpty() to make emptiness check EIP-161 compliant, PR #279
Added type AddressLike and helper bnToHex(), PR #279
Added account.raw() which returns a Buffer Array of the raw Buffers for the account in order, PR #279

7.0.6 - 2020-10-07

New `Account` class

This release adds a new Account class intended as a modern replacement for ethereumjs-account. It has a shape of Account(nonce?: BN, balance?: BN, stateRoot?: Buffer, codeHash?: Buffer).

Instantiation

The static factory methods assist in creating an Account object from varying data types: Object: fromAccountData, RLP: fromRlpSerializedAccount, and Array: fromValuesArray.

Methods: isEmpty(): boolean, isContract(): boolean, serialize(): Buffer

Example usage:

import { Account, BN } from 'ethereumjs-util'

const account = new Account(
  new BN(0), // nonce, default: 0
  new BN(10).pow(new BN(18)), // balance, default: 0
  undefined, // stateRoot, default: KECCAK256_RLP (hash of RLP of null)
  undefined, // codeHash, default: KECCAK256_NULL (hash of null)
)

For more info see the documentation, examples of usage in test/account.spec.ts or PR #275.

New export: TypeScript types

A new file with helpful TypeScript types has been added to the exports of this project, see PR #275.

In this release it contains BNLike, BufferLike, and TransformableToBuffer.

Address.toBuffer()

The Address class has as a new method address.toBuffer() that will give you a copy of the underlying address.buf (PR #277).

`toBuffer()` now converts TransformableToBuffer

The toBuffer() exported function now additionally converts any object with a toBuffer() method (PR #277).

7.0.5 - 2020-09-09

This release adds a new module address - see README - with a new Address class and type which can be used for creating and representing Ethereum addresses.

Example usage:

import { Address } from 'ethereumjs-util'

const pubKey = Buffer.from(
  '3a443d8381a6798a70c6ff9304bdc8cb0163c23211d11628fae52ef9e0dca11a001cf066d56a8156fc201cd5df8a36ef694eecd258903fca7086c1fae7441e1d',
  'hex',
)
const address = Address.fromPublicKey(pubKey)

In TypeScript the associated Address type can be used to more strictly enforce type checks (e.g. on the length of an address) on function parameters expecting an address input. So you can declare a function like the following: myAddressRelatedFunction(Address: address) to get more assurance that the address input is correct.

See PR #186

7.0.4 - 2020-08-04

Fixed BN.js and RLP re-export failures from TypeScript, PR #270
Fixed an issue along large-value input due to a string copy inconsistency within the assertIs* helper functions, issue affects most methods of the library, PR #269

7.0.3 - 2020-07-07

This release replaces the keccak and secp256k1 dependencies (PR #257) and instead uses the ethereum-cryptography package that uses native JS implementations for cryptographic primitives and makes use of modern and forward-compatible N-API implementations in Node wherever possible.

This is part of a larger initiative led by Nomic Labs to improve the developer experience within the Ethereum developer ecosystem, see ethereum/js-team-organization#18 for context.

Other Changes:

Added TypeScript definitions for ethjs-util methods, PR #248 and PR #260

7.0.2 - 2020-05-25

This patch release re-establishes the state of v7.0.0 release and upgrades the BN.js re-export version back to v5 since quick patches for both the v5 (v5.1.2) and the v4 branch (v4.11.9) have been released to fix interoperability issues between the BN.js versions.

This now makes it possible to move to the latest BN.js v5 version and profit from future upgrades and patches.

An upgrade is highly recommended, the v7.0.1 release will be marked as deprecated along this release.

See: Issue #250

7.0.1 - 2020-05-15

[DEPRECATED in favour of v7.0.2]

This patch release downgrades the re-exported BN.js version from v5 to v4 (so a continuation of what has being used within the v6.x versions). This is due to some unexpected interoperability problems in libraries using the older v4 BN.js branch in their some of their respective dependencies.

An upgrade is highly recommended, the v7.0.0 release will be marked as deprecated along this release.

See: Issue #250

7.0.0 - 2020-04-30

[DEPRECATED in favour of v7.0.1]

This release comes with significant changes to the API, updated versions of the core crypto libraries and substantial developer improvements in the form of a refactored test suite and API documentation.

API Changes

Changes to the API have been discussed in Issue #172 and are guided by the principles of:

Make the API more typestrict
Be less ambiguous regarding accepted values
Avoid implicit type conversions
Be more explicit on wrong input (just: throw)

While the implemented changes come with some additional need for manual type conversions depending on the usage context, they should finally lead to cleaner usage patterns on the cosuming side and a more predictable, robust and less error-prone control flow.

Some note: for methods where Buffer usage is now enforced you can use the Bytes.toBuffer() method for conversion.

Account Module

Enforced Hex Prefixing for Address Strings

PR: #241

Hex prefixing is now enforced for all address string inputs and functions will throw if a non-hex string is provided:

Account.isValidAddress()
Account.isZeroAddress()
Account.toChecksumAddress()
Account.isValidChecksumAddress()

The Account.isPrecompile() method was removed from the code base, PR #242

Enforce Buffer Inputs for Account Methods

PR: #245

Implicit Buffer conversions for the following methods have been removed and Buffer inputs are now enforced:

Account.generateAddress()
Account.generateAddress2()
Account.pubToAddress()
AccountprivateToPublic()
AccountimportPublic()

Bytes Module

Typestrict Methods and Type-Explicit Method Split-Up

PR: #244

Enforced Buffer input for Bytes.setLengthLeft(), Bytes.setLengthRight()
Bytes.setLength() has been removed (alias for Bytes.setLengthLeft())
Bytes.stripZeros() has been removed (alias for Bytes.unPad())
Bytes.unpad has been split up into:
- Bytes.unpadBuffer()
- Bytes.unpadHexString()
- Bytes.unpadArray()

Hash Module

Typestrict Methods and Type-Explicit Method Split-Up

PR #247

The following methods are now Buffer-only:

Hash.keccak()
Hash.keccak256()
Hash.sha256()
Hash.ripemd160()

Hash.keccak() gets the following additional convenience methods:

Hash.keccakFromString()
Hash.keccakFromHexString() (hex string enforced) Hash.keccakFromArray()

Hash.sha256() gets the following additional convenience methods:

Hash.sha256FromString()
Hash.sha256FromArray()

Hash.ripemd160() gets the following additional convenience methods:

Hash.ripemd160FromString()
Hash.ripemd160FromArray()

Other Breaking Changes

Added support for Node 14, PR #249
Dropped support for Node 8 along PR #228
Updated BN.js library re-export from 4.x to 5.x, PR [#249], #249
Removed secp2561 re-export (use methods provided or import directly), PR #228

Cryto Library Updates: Keccak, secp2561

Keccak dependency has been updated from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0. This version comes with prebuilds for Linux, MacOS and Windows so most users won't need to have node-gyp run on installation.

The version update also brings in feature compatibility with newer Node.js versions.

The secp2561 ECDSA dependency has been updated from 3.0.1 to 4.0.1.

Developer Improvements

Refactored test suite (module split-up, headless Firefox and Chrome), PR #231
Moved CI from Travis to GitHub Actions, PR #231
Improved and updated TypeDoc API documentation, PR #232 and PR #236
Basic API tests for re-exports (BN.js, RLP, ethjsUtil), PR #235

6.2.0 - 2019-11-06

This release comes with a new file structure, related functionality is now broken down into separate files (like account.js) allowing for more oversight and modular integration. All functionality is additionally exposed through an aggregating index.js file, so this version remains backwards-compatible.

Overview on the new structure:

account: Private/public key and address-related functionality (creation, validation, conversion)
byte: Byte-related helper and conversion functions
constants: Exposed constants (e.g. KECCAK256_NULL_S for the string representation of the Keccak-256 hash of null)
hash: Hash functions
object: Helper function for creating a binary object (DEPRECATED)
signature: Signing, signature validation, conversion, recovery

See associated PRs #182 and #179.

Features

account: Added EIP-1191 address checksum algorithm support for toChecksumAddress(), PR #204

Bug Fixes

bytes: toBuffer() conversion function now throws if strings aren't 0x-prefixed hex values making the behavior of toBuffer() more predictable respectively less error-prone (you might generally want to check cases in your code where you eventually allowed non-0x-prefixed input before), PR #197

Dependencies / Environment

Dropped Node 6, added Node 11 and 12 to officially supported Node versions, PR #207
Dropped safe-buffer dependency, PR #182
Updated rlp dependency from v2.0.0 to v2.2.3 (TypeScript improvements for RLP hash functionality), PR #187
Made @types/bn.js a dependency instead of a devDependency, PR #205
Updated keccak256 dependency from v1.4.0 to v2.0.0, PR #168

6.1.0 - 2019-02-12

First TypeScript based release of the library, now also including a type declaration file distributed along with the package published, see PR #170.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug in isValidSignature() not correctly returning false if passed an s-value greater than secp256k1n/2 on homestead or later. If you use the method signature with more than three arguments (so not just passing in v, r, s and use it like isValidSignature(v, r, s) and omit the optional args) please read the thread from PR #171 carefully and check your code.

Development

Updated @types/node to Node 11 types, PR #175
Changed browser from Chrome to ChromeHeadless, PR #156

6.0.0 - 2018-10-08

Support for EIP-155 replay protection by adding an optional chainId parameter to ecsign(), ecrecover(), toRpcSig() and isValidSignature(), if present the
new signature format relying on the chainId is used, see PR #143
New generateAddress2() for CREATE2 opcode (EIP-1014) address creation (Constantinople HF), see PR #146
[BREAKING] Fixed signature to comply with Geth and Parity in toRpcSig() changing v from 0/1 to 27/28, this changes the resulting signature buffer, see PR #139
[BREAKING] Remove deprecated sha3-named constants and methods (see v5.2.0 release), see PR #154

5.2.0 - 2018-04-27

Rename all sha3 hash related constants and functions to keccak, see this EIP discussion for context (tl;dr: Ethereum uses a slightly different hash algorithm then in the official SHA-3 standard)
Renamed constants:
- SHA3_NULL_S -> KECCAK256_NULL_S
- SHA3_NULL -> KECCAK256_NULL
- SHA3_RLP_ARRAY_S -> KECCAK256_RLP_ARRAY_S
- SHA3_RLP_ARRAY -> KECCAK256_RLP_ARRAY
- SHA3_RLP_S -> KECCAK256_RLP_S
- SHA3_RLP -> KECCAK256_RLP
Renamed functions:
- sha3() -> keccak() (number of bits determined in arguments)
New keccak256() alias function for keccak(a, 256)
The usage of the sha-named versions is now DEPRECATED and the related constants and functions will be removed on the next major release v6.0.0

5.1.5 - 2018-02-28

Fix browserify issue leading to 3rd-party build problems, PR #119

5.1.4 - 2018-02-03

Moved to ES5 Node distribution version for easier toolchain integration, PR #114
Updated isPrecompile() with Byzantium precompile address range, PR #115

5.1.3 - 2018-01-03

ES6 syntax updates
Dropped Node 5 support
Moved babel to dev dependencies, switched to env preset
Usage of safe-buffer instead of Node Buffer
Do not allow capital 0X as valid address in isValidAddress()
New methods zeroAddress() and isZeroAddress()
Updated dependencies

5.1.2 - 2017-05-31

Add browserify for ES2015 compatibility
Fix hex validation

5.1.1 - 2017-02-10

Use hex utils from ethjs-util
Move secp vars into functions
Dependency updates

5.1.0 - 2017-02-04

Fix toRpcSig() function
Updated Buffer creation (Buffer.from)
Dependency updates
Fix npm error
Use keccak package instead of keccakjs
Helpers for eth_sign RPC call

5.0.1 - 2016-11-08

Fix bufferToHex()

5.0.0 - 2016-11-08

Added isValidSignature() (ECDSA signature validation)
Change v param in ecrecover() from Buffer to int (breaking change!)
Fix property alias for setting with initial parameters
Reject invalid signature lengths for fromRpcSig()
Fix sha3() width param (byte -> bit)
Fix overflow bug in bufferToInt()

4.5.0 - 2016-17-12

Introduced toMessageSig() and fromMessageSig()

Older releases:

4.4.1 - 2016-05-20
4.4.0 - 2016-04-26
4.3.1 - 2016-04-25
4.3.0 - 2016-03-23
4.2.0 - 2016-03-18
4.1.0 - 2016-03-08
4.0.0 - 2016-02-02
3.0.0 - 2016-01-20

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