<html><head><title>Migration Guide</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="/static/style.css"></head><body><divclass="sidebar"><divclass="header"><divclass="logo"><ahref="/"><divclass="image"></div><divclass="name">ethers</div><divclass="version">v5.0-beta</div></a></div></div><divclass="toc"><div><divclass="link title"><ahref="/">Documentation</a></div><divclass="base show link depth-1"><ahref="/getting-started/">Getting Started</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/getting-started/#installing">Installing</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/getting-started/#importing">Importing</a></div><divclass="base show link depth-1"><ahref="/concepts/">Concepts</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/concepts/events/">Events</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/concepts/events/#solidity-topics">Solidity Topics</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/concepts/gas/">Gas</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/concepts/gas/#gas-price">Gas Price</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/concepts/gas/#gas-limit">Gas Limit</a></div><divclass="base show link depth-1"><ahref="/api/">Application Programming Interface</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/api/contract/">Contracts</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/contract/#buckets">Buckets</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/api/signer/">Signers</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/signer/#signer">Signer</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/signer/#wallet">Wallet</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/signer/#voidsigner">VoidSigner</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/signer/#externallyownedaccount">ExternallyOwnedAccount</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-2"><ahref="/api/providers/">Providers</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/">Provider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#accounts-methods">Accounts Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#blocks-methods">Blocks Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#ethereum-naming-service-(ens)-methods">Ethereum Naming Service (ENS) Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#logs-methods">Logs Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#network-status-methods">Network Status Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#transactions-methods">Transactions Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#event-emitter-methods">Event Emitter Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/provider/#inspection-methods">Inspection Methods</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/">JsonRpcProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/#jsonrpcsigner">JsonRpcSigner</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/jsonrpc-provider/#jsonrpcuncheckedsigner">JsonRpcUncheckedSigner</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/providers/api-providers/">API Providers</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/api-providers/#etherscanprovider">EtherscanProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/api-providers/#infuraprovider">InfuraProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/api-providers/#alchemyprovider">AlchemyProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/api-providers/#cloudfrontprovider">CloudfrontProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-3"><ahref="/api/providers/other/">Other Providers</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/other/#fallbackprovider">FallbackProvider</a></div><divclass="hide link depth-4"><ahref="/api/providers/other/#ipcprovider">IpcProvider</a></div><divclass="hide
<p>Here are some migration guides when upgrading from older versions of Ethers or other libraries.</p>
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