Junaid

@spacesailor24 this PR is still draft and waiting from few sprints, are there any pending items or required discussion?

Please check that this PR is not causing any actions failing in CI.+ Just need some minor changes, and we can merge this PR. As discussed in call for remaining...

@mconnelly8 we will see this issue of automate release process after main 4.0.0 release.

@DaniloPa8 Thanks for posting this, One of our team member will be looking this, currently our team is focused on web3.js 4.x.

@sirpy +There are many tests failing in CI

@SaulMoonves you can explicitly specify to use hex encoding and it will not throw this error: ``` web3.eth.getTransactionReceipt('0x2c9931793876db33b1a9aad123ad4921dfb9cd5e59dbb78ce78f277759587115','hex') .then(console.log); ```

We need to add e2e tests for web3.eth.net functions.

% Lines coverage unit testing **web3 0** web3-core 82.2 web3-errors 95.68 web3-eth 83.6 web3-eth-abi 88.15 web3-eth-accounts 88.46 **web3-eth-contract 31.92** **web3-eth-ens 29.82** web3-eth-iban 90.47 web3-eth-personal 100 web3-net 100 web3-providers-http 100 **web3-providers-ipc...

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> I'd be willing to take this up. Curious if anyone is working on it or has any input. Thanks @jgresham your contributions are welcome . We will keep you...