Ethers Version

5.6.7

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Describe the Problem

There was a serious bug identified in BN.js, which results in hex strings being incorrectly computed in some cases (analysis will be performed shortly, after I get the CI off and running).

The hexstring is used extensively in ethers v5 BigNumber library, to ensure immutability. This does not affect the v6-beta branch, as it does not use BN.js.

There is a fix published in that repository, so I just need to update the version, verify correctness, and lock the versions in the package.json files.

h/t: @alexdupre

Code Snippet

// Two numbers, which *should* be different:
const a = BigNumber.from(2).pow(336);
const b = BigNumber.from(2).pow(316);

// Should log `false`, but actually logs `true`
console.log(a.eq(b))

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