SDK and CLI Releases March 2024

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cLabs developer tooling team has released betas for the next releases of the celocli and typescript sdks.

Full release notes at Version Packages (beta) by github-actions[bot] · Pull Request #188 · celo-org/developer-tooling · GitHub

but highlights below

for @celo/celocli@5.0.0-beta.0

  • --gasCurrency changed to accept only whitelisted addresses or the string CELO instead of previously accepting a StableToken or ‘auto’ this will makes working with any fee currency approved by governance possible without further code modifications

  • new command celocli network:whitelist prints the whitelisted feeCurrencies

@celo/contractkit@8.0.0-beta.0 and @celo/connect@5.3.0-beta.0

  • Add support Type 0 Ethereum-compatible legacy TXs – transactions using gasPrice now default to this instead of the celo-legacy tx type

all @celo sdks

  • update web3 to 1.10.4 – if you are are using typescript and passing web3 into you may need to update your web3 verison as well
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  • Add support Type 0 Ethereum-compatible legacy TXs – transactions using gasPrice now default to this instead of the celo-legacy tx type
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note there is a bug in beta 0 of cli regarding setting gasCurrency config and then switching nodes. we recommend not configuring the default gasCurrency globally at this time