v4.10.1

Upgrade priority: Medium. Recommended for uses of Polkadot/Kusama 9010 runtimes.

• Breaking change Support for the contracts V2 compatibility has been dropped in @polkadot/api-contract

Contributed:

• Expose RPC definitions via .meta (Thanks to https://github.com/jiqiang90)
• Adjust staking derives for chain-specific optional fields (https://github.com/WoeOm)
• Update base Centrifuge types (Thanks to https://github.com/branan)

Changes:

• Allow for Bounded* type usage (as per latest Substrate)
• Adjust internal TS definitions for providers
• Fix ContractRx query result definitions (no extra Observable)
• Handle contract call RPC result directly as Raw (returned as hex)
• Use BN_* constants as non-specified defaults in contract interfaces
• Remove all type overrides for node/node-template (API tracks latest)
• Contracts ABI now supports metadata version where indexes are 0-based
• Remove support for the old-style V2 contracts from @polkadot/api-contract
• Adjust historic decoration, return as-at registry via getHeader, getMetadata & getRuntimeVersion
• Adjust VecFixed to allow for the handling of hex inputs
• Adjust Compact<*> to allow for wrapped toBigInt() conversions
• Fix isPedantic decoding to correctly handle Text
• Cater for new phragmenElection module naming
• Add Kusama & Westend 9010 upgrade blocks
• Adjust CompactSolution for 24 nominators
• Bump static metadata to latest Substrate