v7.7.1

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We released v7.7.0 yesterday, but it caused installation problems for Windows users without windows-build-tools. This hot fix resolves the issue for those affected users.

If you are still experiencing issues installing Ganache please open a new issue.

We've changed 3 files across 3 merged pull requests, tallying 12 additions and 9 deletions, since our last release.

To install this latest release, run

npm install ganache@latest --global

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fix: add leveldown back to bundle for Windows installation (#4046)

For reasons not yet understood, the leveldown package must be bundled or installations on Windows without windows-build-tools installed fails. This puts the leveldown package back into the ganache package's bundledDependencies.

This PR also introduces changes to our CI process to build a release candidate tarball during test runs.

Fixes #3661

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• docs: fix build status badge on README.md (#4048)
• chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (#4052)

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docs: fix build status badge on README.md (#4048)

Reason for this change: badges/shields#8671

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chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (#4052)

In my haste to get the hot fix out to fix v7.7.0 I added a release candidate tarball to a PR and we didn't notice until it was merged into the develop branch 🤦. This PR just removes that mistake.

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• #4046 fix: add leveldown back to bundle for Windows installation (@davidmurdoch)
• #4048 docs: fix build status badge on README.md (@davidmurdoch)
• #4052 chore: remove tarball that was accidentally added to the repo (@davidmurdoch)

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Top Priority:

• debug_storageRangeAt fails to find storage when the slot was created earlier in the same block (#3338)
• Add eth_createAccessList RPC method (#1056)

Coming Soon™:

• Implications failed: fork.headers -> url (#2627)
• In Geth chain-mode, logic to accept/reject transactions based on gas price/limit should match Geth (#2176)
• evm_mine and miner_start don't respect --mode.instamine=eager (#2029)
• evm_setAccount* is race-conditiony (#1646)
• @ganache/filecoin@alpha doesn't work with ganache@alpha (#1150)
• Launching ganache with fork is throwing revert errors when communicating with 3rd party contracts (#956)
• Build a real pending block! (#772)
• VM Exception when interfacing with Kyber contract (#606)
• After calling evm_mine, eth_getLogs returns same logs for all blocks (#533)
• personal_unlockAccount works with any password (#165)
• --db Option Requires Same Mnemonic and Network ID (#1030)

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Top Priority:

• Accept a genesis.json file (#1042)

Coming Soon™:

• Switch to esbuild to make build times faster/reasonable (#1555)
• fork specific block & specific index (#952)
• Allow to sync forked chain to the latest block (#643)
• Implement a streaming trace capability (#381)
• Improve log performance when forking (#145)
• Log contract events (#45)

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