Bump web3 from 1.2.8 to 1.2.9

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Bumps web3 from 1.2.8 to 1.2.9.

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[1.2.8]

Added

• Introduce review and release guidelines. (#3460)
• Add EIP-1193 compatible provider to AbstractProvider interface. (#3499)
• Add Typescript definitions for contract methods and call. (#3454)
• Update AbstractProvider and contract.methods TS definitions (#3521)
• Add support for ENS contenthash methods. (#3392, #2782)

Changed

• Change CI provider from Travis to Github Actions. (#3468)
• Update web3-eth-abi ABICoder dependency. (#3490)
• Update AbiCoder param formatting (#3522)
• Improve code clarity of HttpProvider keepAlive option setting. (#3463)
• Updated type definitions for Web3 HTTP Provider. (#3482)
• Fix indentation of web3-eth documentation. (#3478)

Fixed

• Fix intermittent CI build issues with dtslint. (#3479)
• Fix WSS credentials Base64 encoding (for browser) (#3508)
• Fire provider "error" and/or "end" events when Websocket provider disconnects. (#3485)
• Remove web3-eth revert error return types to squash TS compilation errors. (#3496)
• Backfill event subscriptions when WS connection dropped across multiple blocks. (#3491)
• Stop swallowing errors when WS connection has died after exhausting reconnection attempts. (#3492)
• Fix setContenthash docs formatting (#3511)

[1.2.9]

Added

• Add sending and sent events for tx submissions (#3438)
• Add latestBlockHash arg to confirmation event handler payload (#3438)
• Make socket providers' max listeners threshold configurable (#3469)
• Documentation about testing & ci resources for Web3.js development (#3528)
• More detailed documentation about how to use method.encodeABI (#3549)
• Integration tests for transactionPollingTimeout (#3513)

Changed

• Websocket package from @web3-js/[email protected] to [email protected] (#3371)
• Upgrade @web3-js/[email protected] to [email protected]
• sendSignedTransaction revert handling synthesizes tx without network call (#3457)
• Make docs grammar more idiomatic, normalize punctuation (#3543)

Fixed

• Size property de-referencing crash when calling web3.eth.clearSubscriptions (#3527)

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Commits

• 49efd11 v1.2.9
• 7d94fdb v1.2.9-rc.0
• ee1b56b Merge pull request #3559 from ethereum/changelog-1.2.9-rc.0
• 2f99d7e Update changelog for 1.2.9-rc.0
• 42c2414 Merge pull request #3469 from ethereum/issue/1942
• fa6435e Merge branch '1.x' into issue/1942
• 644d6d5 Add getter/setter unit tests
• 242bfd0 Merge pull request #3550 from ethereum/issue/3438
• 23f394c Merge branch '1.x' into issue/1942
• 3cef72c Merge branch '1.x' into issue/3438
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