What's new in the documentation

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

April 2024

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.