What's new in the documentation

Here, the latest documentation updates are listed by the month they were implemented.

September 2024

• Documented Scroll support.
• Documented the linea_getTransactionExclusionStatusV1 method.
• Documented that eth_sendRawTransaction now consumes 80 credits instead of 720.
• Documented WebSocket support for:
  • Blast
  • Mantle
  • Holesky
  • Base
• Documented the credit pricing model.

August 2024

• Documented opBNB support.

July 2024

• Documented Binance Smart Chain support.
• Documented Celo WebSocket support.
• Documented ZKsync Era WebSocket support.

June 2024

• Documented ZKsync Era support.

May 2024

• Documented that the Gas API can now be called without an API key secret.

April 2024

• Documented failover protection for the Arbitrum, Optimism and Avalanche (C-Chain) networks.
• Added limited access notice for IPFS.
• Documented Mantle network support.
• Documented Ethereum Holesky testnet support, and Ethereum Goerli testnet deprecation.

March 2024

• Documented Blast network support.

February 2024

• Restructured the Infura documentation.
• Documented Optimism WebSocket support.
• Documented Arbitrum WebSocket support.

January 2024

• Removed support for the Aurora network.

December 2023

• Documented failover protection for the Polygon network.
• Documented the updated API key management.
• Removed support for the NEAR network.

November 2023

• Added documentation for the Gas API, which offers up-to-date information on the computational costs associated with executing operations or transactions on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible chains.
• Deprecated the NFT API.
• Added API documentation for the Celo, Avalanche, and Polygon networks.

October 2023

• Added API documentation for the Optimism network.

September 2023

• Added API documentation for Arbitrum, Linea, Polygon, and Palm.

• Updated the tutorial which tracks ERC-20 token transfers to work with Web3.js v4.x.

August 2023

• Deprecated the Infura Transactions (ITX) service.

• Revised the Ethereum JSON-RPC docs for easy copy-pasting. Descriptions are enhanced.

• Removed support for the Filecoin network.

• Added documentation for Linea debug JSON-RPC methods.

July 2023

• Added documentation for the eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas method.

• Added the missing block number parameter for the eth_estimateGas method.

• Replaced the deprecated ipfs-http-client library with the kubo-rpc-client IPFS library.

• Added a constraint of 5000 (five thousand) parameters per request to eth_getLogs documentation.

• Added a new Rust-based tutorial for sending an EIP-1559 transaction and a legacy transaction to Ethereum blockchain, using Sepolia testnet.

• Updated the Web3.js code to version 4.x in Ethereum tutorials Monitor transfers using Python and Send a transaction using Python.

• Added a new Rust-based tutorial for sending an ERC-20 token to Ethereum blockchain, using Sepolia testnet.

June 2023

• Updated the Web3.js code to version 4.x in Ethereum tutorial Retrieve the balance of an ERC-20 token.

• Updated the Web3.js code to version 4.x in Ethereum tutorial Send a transaction using web3.js.