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What's Changed

• Fix for PHP 8.1 deprecation messages by @Doc0x1 in https://github.com/denpamusic/php-bitcoinrpc/pull/62

New Contributors

• @Doc0x1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/denpamusic/php-bitcoinrpc/pull/62

• bump guzzle to 7.0.* (closes #55)

• Added ability to set connection timeout

• Fixed issue in to_satoshi helper function when dealing with large sums (thanks @partyka1)

First release of v2.1.x branch.

Note: This release only supports PHP version 7.1 or later.
If you want to continue to use PHP 5.6 or 7.0, use latest release of 2.0.x branch. Please be aware, that PHP 7.0 approaches it's end of life in just 10 days and PHP 5.6 will follow in a month, so upgrade ASAP.
See: http://php.net/supported-versions.php and http://php.net/eol.php

• Re-implemented client with strict types enabled
• Improved helper functions.
• Improved exception handling.
• Improved async response handling.
• Fixed some minor bugs.
• Improved test suite.

• Added support for ethereum JSON-RPC (must set 'preserve_case' setting to true) See: #26 #27 Thanks @M-Shahbaz

• Support for client class extensions. See: https://github.com/denpamusic/php-altcoinrpc - a template project to create custom altcoin clients by extending php-bitcoinrpc.
• Improved exceptions. See: https://github.com/denpamusic/php-bitcoinrpc#exceptions
• Improved test-suite.
• Minor code optimizations.

• Added ability to change response handler class via getResponseHandler() method, when extending Denpa\Bitcoin\Client class. This allows for further response customizations in dependent packages like denpa\laravel-bitcoinrpc. See: BitcoindResponse.php and Response.php
• Improved namespace structure.

• contains(), keys() and values() methods of BitcoindResponse are now context-aware (can be used with dotted-notation path)
• added helpers to convert bitcoin to mbtc and ubtc/bits (see README)
• added ability to cast response object to string

• Improved handling of asynchronous requests.
• Separated helper methods from main client class (see Helpers).
• Minor code improvements.