Contracts 4.0 Timeline

[frangio]

We know many of you are awaiting a release of OpenZeppelin Contracts with support for Solidity 0.8. Since this is a breaking change, we will be releasing a version 4.0 of Contracts, with a few other changes bundled in as well.

This is the timeline we’re aiming for:

• February 19th 22nd: Preview release (Beta). The goal of this preview is to gather feedback on a few changes that are somewhat big. There could be other preview releases during the next 2 weeks, based on the feedback we receive.
• March 4th: Release candidate.
• March 11th: Final release.

People who want to jump onto Solidity 0.8 sooner would be able to use the preview release starting next week. The only drawback is you may see some breaking changes over the course of the following weeks until the final release is out.

Stay tuned!

[ashishk74]

Hope crowdsale contract and staking contract are part of 4.0

[abcoathup]

HI @ashishk74,

Neither are in the plan for OpenZeppelin Contracts 4.0 currently.

Crowdsales were removed from the 3.0.0 release. They are available in OpenZeppelin Contracts 2.x. See the documentation for details: https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/3.x/crowdsales

For staking, I suggest adding to the discussion: Studying the building blocks of DeFi.

[Amxx]

@ashishk74

Hope crowdsale contract and staking contract are part of 4.0

Crowdsale and stacking are pretty wide concepts, that take very different forms depending on which project you consider. If you have ideas of generic contracts, that could benefit many projects, feel free to share any ideas !

[jmcph4]

Does this mean that SafeMath will be deprecated due to the changed arithmetic semantics in Solidity 0.8.x?

[abcoathup]

Hi @jmcph4,

Welcome to the community

Following this discussion, SafeMath has been slightly modified to benefit from solidity ^0.8.0 new features. This new version is visible in the master branch (which is now ^0.8.0 based) and soon in 4.0 preview. If you have any concern with the “new” version of SafeMath, fell free to raise an issue.
From: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/issues/2465

[frangio]

A quick update, the preview release will be out Monday instead of today Friday. Sorry for this delay!

[frangio]

See the Beta announcement:

OpenZeppelin Contracts 4.0 Beta

[image] Due to the new built-in overflow checks in Solidity 0.8, which mark the end of the SafeMath era, this upcoming release of OpenZeppelin Contracts is a new major version of the library. We used this opportunity to include a few small breaking changes that we had in the backlog. We’re putting out a beta release to ask for feedback on these changes, and to ask if there are any other breaking changes that people think should be included. If you want to support the project check out the no…