[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.0.0-beta.55 to 1.2.10

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json

⚠️ Warning

Failed to update the package-lock.json, please update manually before merging.

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	768/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Denial of Service (DoS) SNYK-JS-DECODEURICOMPONENT-3149970	No	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: web3

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• c42b14e v1.2.10
• ef81e78 v1.2.10-rc.0
• fbb2920 Update changelog: 1.2.10 (#3627)
• 8c94ca8 Use provider.request() when available (EIP-1193) (#3625)
• 10b7365 small typo in web3-utils.rst (#3629)
• ec42208 upgrade github actions/checkout to v2 (#3630)
• ce9ac7b allow `bundlesize` to pass to satisfy lint ci check for PRs from forks (#3626)
• cbd0d06 Fix test/contract.js `done` race condition (#3628)
• 4e36583 Upgrade build process from gulp to webpack (#3618)
• 1404086 Update Message (#3617)
• 92f8e46 Create github actions stalebot (#3616)
• 3f55f65 Add caching to ci (#3609)
• db2a02e Merge pull request #3612 from ethereum/greg/fix-stalebot
• ce32f2e fix stalebot
• 70158a8 Add stalebot (#3607)
• 97598a6 Fix accounts encrypt/decrypt for Webpack Buffer polyfill (#3583)
• d93b0d1 Fix Function type log params decoding (#3586)
• 55b2d28 Remove invisible  char from web3-utils files (#3602)
• 0df0fea Merge pull request #3599 from elmariachi111/patch-1
• 898322b Merge pull request #3596 from epiccoolguy/hotfix/incorrect-resubscribe-formatting
• 97d87fa replaced boolean "values" with types in d.ts
• 89d55e2 Add Netlify to rtd (#3598)
• 2e8feca Merge pull request #3597 from coffee-converter/docs_add_missing_list_number
• bec7181 Merge branch '1.x' into docs_add_missing_list_number

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