New release v7.0.0

[holgerd77]

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[github-actions]

Coverage remained the same at 99.705% when pulling 51b258b on new-release-v700 into f86dc07 on master.

[holgerd77]

Hmm, just wondered what's with BN.js v5.x? Should we update there as well? Will likely be more future-proof and there are at least some performance benefits it seems (read out of the release notes).

Update: Here is also some release context indutny/bn.js#219

Update: Ah, but there are no up-to-date type definitions (still on 4.11.3)

Update: Seems to be no significant API changes though so maybe ok to stick with the @types/bn.js v4.11.3 package

[holgerd77]

Self-note: we should also add Node 14 to the test matrix, just tested locally with 14.1.0 and tests are passing.

[holgerd77]

Ok, I've now done the changes I discussed/mentioned above:

• Added Node 14
• Updated BN.js re-export to v5
• Added the engines field (discussed here)

Open for review again, please take this into account.

[cgewecke]

Changelog looks great to me. Very clear. 💯

Only thought I have is that it might be helpful to mention the existence of the toBuffer method in the release notes or something, for people who've been relying on it being automatically invoked.

[holgerd77]

Ok, makes sense and have added (note on toBuffer). This needs reapproval now.

[holgerd77]

Just published as v7.0.0 on npm.