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<html><head><title>Migration Guide</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/style.css"></head><body><div class="sidebar"><div class="header"><div class="logo"><a href="/"><div class="image"></div><div class="name">ethers</div><div class="version">v5.0-beta</div></a></div></div><div class="toc"><div><div class="link title"><a href="/">Documentation</a></div><div class="base show link depth-1"><a href="/getting-started/">Getting Started</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/getting-started/#getting-started--installing">Installing</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/getting-started/#getting-started--importing">Importing</a></div><div class="base show link depth-1"><a href="/concepts/">Concepts</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/concepts/events/">Events</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/concepts/events/#events--solidity-topics">Solidity Topics</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/concepts/gas/">Gas</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/concepts/gas/#gas-price">Gas Price</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/concepts/gas/#gas-limit">Gas Limit</a></div><div class="base show link depth-1"><a href="/api/">Application Programming Interface</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/api/contract/">Contract Interaction</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/contract/contract/">Contract</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/contract/#contract--properties">Properties</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/contract/#contract--methods">Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/contract/#contract--events">Events</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/contract/#contract-metaclass">Meta-Class</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/contract/example/">Example: ERC-20 Contract</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#example-erc-20-contract--connecting-to-a-contract">Connecting to a Contract</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#example-erc-20-contract--properties-inheritted-from-contract">Properties ^^//(inheritted from [[contract]])//^^</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#example-erc-20-contract--methods-inheritted-from-contract">Methods ^^//(inheritted from [[contract]])//^^</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#erc20-events">Events ^^//(inheritted from Contract)//^^</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#example-erc-20-contract--meta-class-methods-added-at-runtime">Meta-Class Methods ^^//(added at Runtime)//^^</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/contract/example/#example-erc-20-contract--meta-class-filters-added-at-runtime">Meta-Class Filters ^^//(added at Runtime)//^^</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/api/signer/">Signers</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/signer/#signer">Signer</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/signer/#wallet">Wallet</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/signer/#void-signer">VoidSigner</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/signer/#externally-owned-account">ExternallyOwnedAccount</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/api/providers/">Providers</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/providers/provider/">Provider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--accounts-methods">Accounts Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--blocks-methods">Blocks Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--ethereum-naming-service-ens-methods">Ethereum Naming Service (ENS) Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--logs-methods">Logs Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--network-status-methods">Network Status Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--transactions-methods">Transactions Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--event-emitter-methods">Event Emitter Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/provider/#provider--inspection-methods">Inspection Methods</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/">JsonRpcProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/#signer-jsonrpc">JsonRpcSigner</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/#provider-jsonrpc-uncheckedsigner">JsonRpcUncheckedSigner</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/providers/api-providers/">API Providers</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/api-providers/#api-providers--etherscanprovider">EtherscanProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/api-providers/#api-providers--infuraprovider">InfuraProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/api-providers/#api-providers--alchemyprovider">AlchemyProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/api-providers/#api-providers--cloudfrontprovider">CloudfrontProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/providers/other/">Other Providers</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/other/#provider-fallback">FallbackProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/other/#provider-ipc">IpcProvider</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/providers/other/#provider-urljsonrpc">UrlJsonRpcProvider</a></div><div class="hide link 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href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--creating-instances">Creating Instances</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--properties">Properties</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--formatting">Formatting</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--fragment-access">Fragment Access</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--signature-and-topic-hashes">Signature and Topic Hashes</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--encoding-data">Encoding Data</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--decoding-data">Decoding Data</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--parsing">Parsing</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-interface--types">Types</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/interface/#abi-fragmentid">Specifying Fragments</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/">Fragments</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#fragments--formats">Formats</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#abi-fragment">Fragment</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#abi-constructorfragment">ConstructorFragment</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#abi-eventfragment">EventFragment</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#abi-functionfragment">FunctionFragment</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/utils/abi/fragments/#abi-paramtype">ParamType</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/address/">Addresses</a></div><div 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href="/api/utils/constants/#constants--bignumber">BigNumber</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/display-logic/">Display Logic and Input</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/display-logic/#display-logic-and-input--units">Units</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/display-logic/#display-logic-and-input--functions">Functions</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/encoding/">Encoding Utilities</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/encoding/#bse58">Base58</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/encoding/#base64">Base64</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/encoding/#rlp">Recursive-Length Prefix</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/fixednumber/">FixedNumber</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/fixednumber/#fixednumber--creating-instances">Creating Instances</a></div><div class="hide link 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href="/api/utils/hdnode/#hdnode">HDNode</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/hdnode/#hd-wallet--other-functions">Other Functions</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/logger/">Logging</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/logger/#logger">Logger</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/logger/#errors">Errors</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/logger/#logger-levels">Log Levels</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/properties/">Property Utilities</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/signing-key/">Signing Key</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/signing-key/#utils-signingkey--other-functions">Other Functions</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/utils/strings/">Strings</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/utils/strings/#bytes32-string">Bytes32String</a></div><div class="hide link 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href="/api/other/">Other Libraries</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/api/other/assembly/">Assembly</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/">Ethers ASM Dialect</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-opcode">Opcodes</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-label">Labels</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-literal">Literals</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-comment">Comments</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-scope">Scopes</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-datasegment">Data Segment</a></div><div class="hide link depth-5"><a href="/api/other/assembly/dialect/#asm-dialect-links">Links</a></div><div class="hide link 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Wallets</a></div><div class="hide link depth-4"><a href="/api/other/hardware/#hw-ledger">LedgerSigner</a></div><div class="base show link depth-1"><a href="/cli/">Command Line Interfaces</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/cli/ethers/">Sandbox Utility</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/ethers/#sandbox-utility--help">Help</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/ethers/#sandbox-utility--examples">Examples</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/cli/asm/">Assembler</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/asm/#cli-asm--help">Help</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/asm/#cli-asm--example-input-files">Example Input Files</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/asm/#cli-asm--assembler-examples">Assembler Examples</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/asm/#cli-asm--disassembler-examples">Disassembler Examples</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/cli/ens/">Ethereum Naming Service</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/ens/#ethereum-naming-service--help">Help</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/ens/#ethereum-naming-service--examples">Examples</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/cli/typescript/">TypeScript</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/typescript/#typescript--help">Help</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/typescript/#typescript--examples">Examples</a></div><div class="hide link depth-2"><a href="/cli/plugin/">Making Your Own</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/plugin/#cli-cli">CLI</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/plugin/#cli-plugin">Plugin</a></div><div class="hide link depth-3"><a href="/cli/plugin/#cli-argparser">ArgParser</a></div><div class="base show link depth-1"><a href="/cookbook/">Cookbook</a></div><div class="base myself ancestor ancestor show link depth-1"><a href="/migration/">Migration Guide</a></div><div 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<p>Here are some migration guides when upgrading from older versions of Ethers or other libraries.</p>
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