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Update `signTransaction` to Consistently Return `SignedTransactionInfoAPI`

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Before this PR, `web3Eth.signTransaction` was returning whatever the user passed as the `transaction` parameter for `respnose.tx` when the RPC client was returning only the RLP encoded transaction as the RPC...

- We should implement a disclaimer as mentioned [here](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/pull/5251#discussion_r932016753) that notifies the user that methods exported from `rpc_method_wrappers.ts` are expected to not be used by most users - We should...

Investigate `4.x` Symlinks Not Working On Windows

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There was a report in the ChainSafe discord that the symlinks don't work on Windows and therefore the `4.x` branch cannot be properly setup in a Windows env

Discuss/Implement Migration Away From Lerna [4.x]

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[Lerna](https://github.com/lerna/lerna) seems to no longer be maintained, so for `4.x` we could probably rely solely on Yarn Workspaces

Init `web3-rpc-methods` package

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**Note** There are a huge amount of files changed, but most of these files are tests where the only change was an import change to `import { ethRpcMethods } from...

Example Plugin Implementation

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Example implementation for #5091 ### Points of Discussion - I believe the `Web3APISpec` on [this](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/blob/d0d388b6f26b739d787653285f1ba8a88eb4fcfe/packages/web3-plugin-example/src/index.ts#L44) line should be `ChainlinkPluginAPI`, but when making the change the following error appears for [this](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/blob/d0d388b6f26b739d787653285f1ba8a88eb4fcfe/packages/web3-plugin-example/src/index.ts#L55)...

--- ## `web3-core` ### Changed - `privateKey` argument for `TransactionBuilder` type was changed from `HexString | Buffer` to `{ privateKey: HexString | Buffer; privateKeyToAddress: privateKeyToAddress }` (#5458) - Return type...

Originally brought up [here](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/pull/5312#issue-1328068259) in PR #5312, there are instances where our library will return `gasLimit` and other times when it returns `gas` within transaction objects. This issue tracks the...

Hanging promise in `web3-eth` integration tests

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`--forceExit` flag should be removed from the `test:integration` npm script in `web3-eth` package, but can't because there seems to be hanging promises in: - [rpc.test.ts](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/blob/4.x/packages/web3-eth/test/integration/rpc.test.ts) - [subscription_logs.test.ts](https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/blob/4.x/packages/web3-eth/test/integration/subscription_logs.test.ts)