Update dependency hardhat to v3

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Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
hardhat (source)	^2.8.0 → ^3.0.0

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NomicFoundation/hardhat (hardhat)

v3.9.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8380 0fd498d Thanks @​kanej! - Added support for coverage.skipFiles, a list of globs of Solidity files to exclude from coverage instrumentation and reporting during a --coverage run.

Patch Changes

• #​8383 1660f1e Thanks @​schaable! - Fixed an intermittent "Provider for provided chain type does not exist" error that could occur when multiple network connections were created concurrently.

• #​8371 287620e Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Account overrides that share an address with the network's built-in genesis accounts are now correctly merged into a single genesis entry.

• #​8375 931a5f0 Thanks @​schaable! - Suppressed the solc initcode size warning for Solidity test contracts and when running under --coverage.

• #​8372 5f6aff2 Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Improved validation for initialDate network configuration. Invalid Date objects and unparseable date strings are now rejected during config loading rather than causing a runtime error later.

v3.8.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8339 f21390f Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Added definePlugin, a new helper exported from hardhat/plugins. Plugin authors should wrap their plugin literal with it so the default export of their index module becomes:

  import type { HardhatPlugin } from "hardhat/types/plugins";
  
  import { definePlugin } from "hardhat/plugins";
  
  const hardhatPlugin: HardhatPlugin = definePlugin({
    id: "my-plugin",
    // ...
  });
  
  export default hardhatPlugin;

  definePlugin returns its argument unchanged and, as a side effect, registers the plugin's id in a process-wide registry of loaded plugins. Hardhat's CLI uses that registry to warn when a plugin is imported but missing from the user's plugins array.

• #​8339 19c6927 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Hardhat now warns when a plugin is imported in your Hardhat config file but missing from the plugins array. The warning is printed to stderr after the runtime environment is created, listing the offending plugins and pointing the user at the fix.

  If your Hardhat config file is written in TypeScript, for the warning to be reliable your project's tsconfig.json must enable verbatimModuleSyntax: true. Without it, TypeScript deletes unused default-value imports, so an unused plugin can't be detected.

Patch Changes

• #​8336 86bfe66 Thanks @​Wodann! - - Fixed default gas limit of Solidity test runner when a custom transaction gas cap (EIP-7825) or block gas limit is specified

  • Fixed process deadlock/hang when dropping a provider with interval mining and logging enabled
  • Print more detailed error descriptions for EVM, invariant fuzz, and cheatcode errors

• #​8345 9d5b96c Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add .solidityStack property to the SolidityError exceptions generated by EDR

• #​8365 dbb689b Thanks @​kanej! - Suppress the solc contract size warning for Solidity test files.

• #​8368 2e2ba99 Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed the build task attempting to download a compiler even though a path to a local compiler is configured.

• #​8339 25cea9f Thanks @​alcuadrado! - The sample projects initialized with hardhat --init now set verbatimModuleSyntax: true in their tsconfig.json. This ensures that plugin imports in hardhat.config.ts are actually evaluated at runtime, which is required for the new "imported but unused plugin" warning to work reliably.

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.15

v3.7.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8200 ce430ac Thanks @​tenderdeve! - Hardhat 3 is now stable, the "Beta" wording is being dropped from the hardhat --init process and project templates.

v3.6.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add a cleanupArtifacts option to SolidityBuildSystem#build. When true, the build system runs cleanupArtifacts against the build's root file paths after a successful build, deleting orphan artifacts and unreachable build-info files for the scope.

• #​8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Deprecate the following SolidityHooks: getCompiler, onCleanUpArtifacts, preprocessProjectFileBeforeBuilding, preprocessSolcInputBeforeBuilding, readSourceFile, invokeSolc, and readNpmPackageRemappings. They will be removed in a future release.

  Use processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild instead of onCleanUpArtifacts, and getCompilationJobErrors instead of invokeSolc.

• #​8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#getCompilationJobErrors hook, which lets plugins process the compiler output errors of a compilation job before they are reported to the user.

• #​8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add SolidityHooks#processArtifactsAfterSuccessfulBuild hook to let plugins post-process the artifacts. The hook receives the resolved build options as a new exported ResolvedBuildOptions type.

Patch Changes

• #​8327 dee44f6 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - SolidityBuildSystem#cleanupArtifacts now returns the list of artifact paths that remain after the cleanup.

• #​8335 a4bf547 Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Allow STRING_WITHOUT_DEFAULT and FILE_WITHOUT_DEFAULT as positional arguments

• #​8326 959f2e1 Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed hardhat flatten silently producing a misleading output for projects with cyclic Solidity dependencies.

• #​8262 d3ba170 Thanks @​fvictorio! - Add AGENTS.md and agentic skills to sample projects

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.3
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.14

v3.5.1

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Patch Changes

• #​8316 971a135 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Fix hardhat --init when used with pnpm 11

• #​8302 fb99caa Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Suppress solc warnings that are direct side effects of --coverage instrumentation.

• #​8315 90650fd Thanks @​schaable! - Improved error messages for common migration errors.

v3.5.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8301 793cc84 Thanks @​kanej! - Disable transaction gas cap and block gas limit when running tests under --coverage.

• #​8270 cf2823b Thanks @​schaable! - Solidity test configuration now also accepts { profiles: { default: ... } }. Only the default profile is currently supported, other profile names will be supported in a future release. The previous flat shape continues to work unchanged.

  The resolved HardhatConfig.test.solidity is now profile-keyed: read per-profile fields at hre.config.test.solidity.profiles.default.* instead of hre.config.test.solidity.*. Plugins that read the resolved Solidity test config need to be updated.

Patch Changes

• #​8298 83b1ae1 Thanks @​Wodann! - - Fixed a bug when using a test filter where the setUp function would be run for empty test suites

  • Fixed a bug where snapshot cheatcodes would throw an error if names were invalid
  • Fixed coverage instrumentation interfering with the single-call vm.prank cheatcode
  • Added support for instrumentation of Solidity 0.8.35

• #​8264 8452f97 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Export ./package.json so consumers can import the package's manifest.

• #​8310 9f394ec Thanks @​js360000! - Fix JSON-RPC error.data shape for revert errors (code 3): return the raw revert hex string directly instead of a { message, txHash, data } wrapper object. This matches the geth/anvil/EVM-node convention that client tooling (viem, ethers, web3.js) relies on when decoding custom errors. Closes #​8075.

• #​8269 045cb8d Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Always load the builtin plugins' type extensions

• #​8243 08805db Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Support EIP-712 cheatcodes in Solidity Test.

• #​8301 793cc84 Thanks @​kanej! - Respect user config for allowUnlimitedContractSize when running under --coverage.

• #​8259 1d1204f Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed build overrides not being respected when running compile

• #​8188 d48bbfd Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add --init --template <template-name> to initialize projects in a non-interactive way. Also add --init --templates to get the list of template names.

• #​8290 3a15b11 Thanks @​gultekinmakif! - Fixed abstract contracts being picked up as test suites by the Solidity test runner (#​8203).

• #​8266 325bae1 Thanks @​schaable! - Sanitized snapshot cheatcode group names to avoid issues when persisting them to disk. A warning is shown when a group is renamed suggesting the user to update their snapshot group names to match the on-disk names.

• #​8312 76c15ff Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Update the Hardhat 3 TypeScript project templates for TypeScript 6.

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.13
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.2
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-vendored@​3.0.4
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-zod-utils@​3.0.5

v3.4.5

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Patch Changes

• #​8253 4aeed16 Thanks @​schaable! - Fix compilation artifacts accidentally being deleted when their path contains an intermediate directory whose name ends in .sol.

• #​8191 2a4ae8e Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Update how type extensions are handled to optimize the bootstrap process of Hardhat.

• #​8190 2443073 Thanks @​anaPerezGhiglia! - Bump EDR version to 0.12.0-next.32.

• #​8228 417bbf9 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Small performance optimizations

• #​8229 a4d106e Thanks @​schaable! - Add isolate and evmVersion to the Solidity test inline configuration.

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.1

v3.4.4

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Patch Changes

• #​8213 448da88 Thanks @​kanej! - Reduced internal memory usage during coverage test runs (#​8213)

• #​8197 d3cb008 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Update the error reporting logic to reduce noise

v3.4.3

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Patch Changes

• #​8196 b669814 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Improve error messages in common failures

• #​8196 73436aa Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Export missing error types

• #​8195 79205cc Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Replace chalk with util.styleText.

• #​8224 3614c02 Thanks @​schaable! - Add a fuzz.showLogs option to the Solidity test config to display console.log output from fuzz tests.

• #​8218 32f2b59 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Fix hardhat test solidity --no-compile failing with SELECTED_TEST_FILES_NOT_COMPILED when no test files are specified.

• #​8139 536b745 Thanks @​anaPerezGhiglia! - Bumped EDR version to 0.12.0-next.31

• #​8199 2cb91f1 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add LPT scheduling to the Solidity build system

• #​8219 2cad309 Thanks @​schaable! - Improved performance by replacing the semver dependency with a lightweight in-tree implementation.

• #​8207 d594209 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Improved performance by replacing the debug logging library with a lightweight in-tree implementation.

• #​8189 b5ca1ae Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Introduce a TrueCasePathResolver class to optimize repeated filesystem casing resolution

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.1.0
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.12
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-vendored@​3.0.3

v3.4.2

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Patch Changes

• #​8177 7cab964 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize the HookManager and the coverage plugin

• #​8187 8f6a418 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Improved the logic for handling Node.js versions that fall below the minimum requirement.

• #​8183 88f8d59 Thanks @​schaable! - Speed up startup by loading the coverage manager only when --coverage is set.

• #​8183 82208ba Thanks @​schaable! - Speed up HRE creation by loading user-interruption support only when it's first used.

• #​8175 eeea0aa Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Restructure the imports of the network-manager.

• #​8183 baa9c9a Thanks @​schaable! - Speed up startup by loading the gas-analytics manager only when --gas-stats or --gas-stats-json is set.

• #​8180 4122faa Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize file system traversal helpers

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.0.5

v3.4.1

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Patch Changes

• #​8142 a997091 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Make node:test sequential by default and run test files in the same process (isolation: "none").

• #​8173 1a01f9b Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Improve error reporter

• #​8176 13e46b2 Thanks @​kanej! - Fixed compilation error check to ignore ambiguous warnings (#​8176)

• #​8179 d16d82a Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Await all returned promises for better debuggability

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.0.4

v3.4.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8116 88787e1 Thanks @​kanej! - Add getOrCreate to the network API

• #​8127 353cf86 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Make the split of contracts and solidity tests compilation optional, and controlled with a new splitTestsCompilation config field.

Patch Changes

• #​8105 00e9695 Thanks @​marianfe! - Add Solidity 0.8.34 to the default EVM targets table (osaka) (#​8105)

• #​8108 5404ac8 Thanks @​schaable! - Display contract runtime bytecode size in the gas stats table and JSON output

• #​8104 e27a7ad Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Use code 3 for JSON-RPC revert error codes to align with standard node behavior and preserve error causes in viem/ethers.

• #​8103 14b335a Thanks @​kanej! - Improved network handler performance through additional metadata to allow early skipping (#​8103)

• #​8148 49ec5d0 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Don't report HardhatErrors that aren't bugs

• #​8102 d5f8394 Thanks @​kanej! - Improved performance of network handler initialization (#​8102)

• #​8141 63c68c1 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Added support for EDR structured Solidity test cheatcode errors.

• #​8123 cf3933b Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Add a toolVersionsInBuildInfo setting to the Solidity config, which is true by default in the production build profile. When enabled, the version of Hardhat is included in the Build Info files.

  NOTE: This change can lead to build info ids changing despite the compilation output's bytecodes being identical, especially when using the production build profile.

• #​8143 f74cec9 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Update .gitignore files in the sample projects to ignore snapshots and env files.

• #​8096 7fb721b Thanks @​alcuadrado! - [chore] Move to packages/ folder.

• #​8116 88787e1 Thanks @​kanej! - Deprecate the hre.network.connect() method in favour of hre.network.create(), exactly the same method but more clearly indicating that it will create a new connection.

• #​8119 ff5a97e Thanks @​schaable! - Show proxy chain information in --gas-stats and --gas-stats-json output

• #​8114 6eeb144 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Updated forking configurations to support number and bigint.

• #​8121 0f1038c Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Update the default outputSelection setting of solc to decrease the artifacts size.

  NOTE: This change can lead to build info ids changing, despite compilation output's bytecodes being identical.

• #​8122 edfa548 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize hre.artifacts.artifactExists()

• #​8115 935a043 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Breaking change: removed timeout option for Solidity tests in hardhat.config.ts file.

• #​8120 688870c Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Fix remappings duplication

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.11
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.0.3
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-vendored@​3.0.2
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-zod-utils@​3.0.4

v3.3.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8073 dfe4ffe Thanks @​schaable! - Add support for per-test inline configuration in solidity tests.

Patch Changes

• #​8008 6fb3c27 Thanks @​marianfe! - Introduce multi-compiler abstraction that allows plugins to define new Solidity compiler types (#​8008).

• #​8077 4581395 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize the initialization of EDR Network Connections by caching their genesis state.

• #​7983 8e194d0 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Added --verbosity (and -v, -vv, and the other shorthands) to all tasks, including TypeScript tests (7983), (7963).

• #​8077 4581395 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Fix a bug where network.connect() re-resolved the config when not needed.

• #​8009 83b412e Thanks @​marianfe! - Add SolidityHooks#downloadCompilers and SolidityHooks#getCompiler hooks for extensible custom compiler support (#​8009)

• #​8091 c89cb91 Thanks @​kanej! - Improved performance of the network stack by removing a clone of the http request (#​8046)

• #​8088 23c0d36 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize imports.

• #​8074 8984862 Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize the initialization of EDR Network Connections by only processing the build outputs once.

• #​8082 72a033d Thanks @​popescuoctavian! - Bumped EDR version to 0.12.0-next.29

• #​8008 57d1075 Thanks @​marianfe! - Introduce the ConfigHooks#validateResolvedConfig hook and the HardhatConfigValidationError type to be able to run global validations on the resolved config (#​8008).

• #​8079 759983b Thanks @​alcuadrado! - Optimize the network connections to prevent memory leaks.

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-utils@​4.0.2
  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.10

v3.2.0

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Minor Changes

• #​8064 392fc38 Thanks @​schaable! - Add --gas-stats-json <path> global option to write gas usage statistics to a JSON file (#​7990).

Patch Changes

• #​8061 c03f647 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Fixed bug to preserve revert data in JSON-RPC responses for non-ProviderErrors (8061).

• #​8060 4461d1e Thanks @​kanej! - Updated network.createServer signature to type non-generic chainTypes

• #​8038 465d00d Thanks @​schaable! - Aggregate deployment gas statistics (min, avg, median, max, count) instead of showing only the last deployment cost and size (#​8037)

• #​8060 0e8abcf Thanks @​kanej! - Added guard against http network configs in network.createServer(...)

• #​8036 954825a Thanks @​schaable! - Aggregate --gas-stats output when using multiple test runners, printing a single consolidated table at the end instead of separate tables per runner (#​7500).

• #​8062 45963d4 Thanks @​ChristopherDedominici! - Fixed compiler download for old versions in ARM64 (8062).

• Updated dependencies:

  • @​nomicfoundation/hardhat-errors@​3.0.9

v3.1.12

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Patch Changes

• 01b41ee: Added support for function gas snapshots and snapshot cheatcodes in Solidity tests with --snapshot and --snapshot-check flags (#​7769)
• e37f96c: Add TestRunResult type that wraps TestSummary, allowing plugins to extend test results with additional data
• bda5a0a: Bumped EDR version to 0.12.0-next.28

v3.1.11

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• 2cbf218: Bumped EDR version to 0.12.0-next.27

  BREAKING CHANGE: Memory capture used to be enabled by default on geth, but has since been flipped ethereum/go-ethereum#23558 and is now disabled by default. We have followed suit and disabled it by default as well. If you were relying on memory capture, you will need to explicitly enable it by setting the enableMemory option to true in your tracer configuration.

• bc193be: Use concrete value types for contract names in hardhat-viem and hardhat-ethers

• 2cbf218: Make SolidityBuildSystem easier to work with (#​7988)

• 19b691d: Fix typo in assertion message #​8028

• 2cbf218: Expose Result type for task action success/failure signaling.

• 2cbf218: Fixed the acceptance of relative paths to node_modules in npm remappings (#​8007)

• 2cbf218: Implement a global banner logic in Hardhat 3 #​8021

• 4ff11c1: Return typed Result from test runners and telemetry tasks (#​8015).

• 2cbf218: Show fs paths and better error messages when a Solidity file can't be compiled with any configured compiler (#​7988)

• 2cbf218: Add onTestRunStart, onTestWorkerDone, and onTestRunDone test hooks (#​8001)

v3.1.10

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Patch Changes

• ca26adb: Update hardhat node to always use the new node network (#​7989)[#​7989]
• 87623db: Introduce new inter-process mutex implementation (7942).
• 88e9cb5: Add a SolidityHooks#readNpmPackageRemappings hook
• ec03a01: Allow overriding the type of the network configs default and localhost #​7805
• 2c2e1f5: Throw better error messages when trying to use a Hardhat 2 plugin with Hardhat 3 #​7991.
• 90b5eec: Suggest installing hardhat-foundry when appropriate
• 87623db: Make the solc downloader safe when run by multiple processes (7946).
• 726ff37: Update the --coverage table output to match the style used by --gas-stats. Thanks @​jose-blockchain! (#​7733)
• f1e9b05: Added support for inline actions in tasks 7851.
• 73cb725: Expose gasLimit configuration for Solidity tests #​7996

v3.1.9

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Patch Changes

• 621d07e: Make the coverage work with versions of Solidity that aren't fully supported by EDR #​7982
• 3e39a06: Round average and median gas usage in the gas analytics output
• 78af2ed: Allow multiple parallel downloads of different compilers (7946).

v3.1.8

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• a6947fb: Use the official Linux ARM64 builds of solc in the production profile when available (#​7917).
• fd42744: Fixed missing EIP-7212 precompile in Solidity Tests (#​7872).

v3.1.7

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• 4995121: Suppressed pragma and license warnings in Solidity test files (7894).
• 22adbcb: Added support for eth_getProof (3345).

v3.1.6

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• 98fbf44: Implemented SolidityBuildSystemImplementation#compileBuildInfo (#​7891)
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