v0.54.4

This release contains important security fixes. We recommend all chains upgrade to this patch release as soon as possible using a coordinated upgrade.

This release is state breaking.

What's Changed

• fix: Change otel env var (backport #26390 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26391

• chore: bump Go baseline to 1.26.3 and relax goconst linting (backport #26407 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26412

• build(deps): Bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4 to 5 (backport #26402 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26411

• fix(distribution): add strict + fallback behavior when withdrawing delegator rewards (backport #26406 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26409

• build(deps): Bump actions/add-to-project from 1.0.2 to 2.0.0 (backport #26384 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26393

• chore(deps): bump x/net, x/sys, x/text (backport #26442 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26445

• fix: resolve pre-existing lint and test failures (backport #26457 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26459

• ci: bump go to 1.26.4 and source CI Go version from go.mod (backport #26486 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26496

• fix(x/staking): handle redelegation when unbonded source is removed (backport #26408 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26416

• test(x/gov): expand genesis InitGenesis/ExportGenesis coverage (backport #26354 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26446

• feat: add Block-STM configuration support (backport #26208 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26495

• ci: bump remaining Dockerfile/scripts go to 1.26.4 (backport #26494 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26500

• chore(x/auth): human-readable error (backport #26567 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26577

• fix: Guard against bstm estimate failure (backport #26627 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26636

• build(deps): consolidated deps bump on release/v0.54.x by @swift1337 in #26671

• fix(x/auth/tx): avoid nil pointer panic in GetSigningTxData (backport #26527 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26660

• fix: bound multisig signature and pubkey indexing by slice lengths (backport #26515 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26650

• fix(x/auth/tx): avoid nil pointer panic in GetSigningTxData for multisig ModeInfo with a nil Multi or nil Bitarray (backport #26571 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26657

• build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.82.1 on release/v0.54.x by @swift1337 in #26676

• fix: bound compact bit array index by elems length (backport #26509 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26656

• fix: reject tx with mismatched signer info and signature counts (backport #26517 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26652

• fix(x/auth/ante): reject tx with extra SignerInfos in SetPubKeyDecorator (backport #26573 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26658

• fix(x/distribution): return errors for missing historical rewards internally (backport #26518 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26654

• fix(blockstm): normalize non-positive worker count in STMRunner.Run (backport #26591 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26659

• fix(blockstm): count validation tasks before advancing validationIdx to prevent lost updates (backport #26583 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26667

• fix(crypto): validate secp256k1 pubkey SEC1 tag byte (backport #26529 ) by @mergify [bot] in #26666

• feat: update comet and changelog by @swift1337 in #26690

Full Changelog : v0.54.3...v0.54.4