Cosmos SDK 0.47 and wasmd 0.40 support for CosmJS

The latest release, 0.31 of CosmJS, allows your app to seamlessly connect to both Cosmos SDK 0.45 and Cosmos SDK 0.47 chains. This is possible by a new auto-detection of the Tendermint/CometBFT version in all clients. But there is more in the release.

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Cosmos SDK 0.47

• Add x/group and x/gov v1 message types to registry
• Upgrade cosmjs-types to 0.8.0 to include Cosmos SDK 0.46/0.47 and IBC v7 types.
• IndexedTx and DeliverTxResponse now have a msgResponses field which replaces the older data field.

Dev X

• You can now broadcast a transaction without waiting for the inclusion in a block. StargateClient.broadcastTxSync and SigningStargateClient.signAndBroadcastSync resolve right after the CheckTx step in the node and provide the transaction hash.
• Remove high-level searchTx queries such as SearchByHeightQuery and SearchBySentFromOrToQuery since they did not work anymore across different versions of Tendermint. Only raw query strings and key/value pairs are now supported. This gives developers more control over the queries for the chains they care about.

CosmWasm

• Use the convenience method SigningCosmWasmClient.instantiate2 to instantiate a contract using instantiate2.
• Query contracts by creator are possible with the new CosmWasmClient.getContractsByCreator.
• The new Amino JSON support for MsgStoreCode.instantiate_permission allows using this field with Amino signing.

The full list of changes is available in the CHANGELOG.

Migrating

When upgrading an existing application to the latest CosmJS, you need to do the following steps (more or less):

1. Update all @cosmjs/* dependencies to ^0.31.0. They must all have the same version.
2. If you are using cosmjs-types explicitly in your app, make sure to upgrade to version ^0.8.0.
3. Re-write your searchTx calls to raw queries or a list of key/value pairs for the search. Please note that in Tendermint/CometBFT 0.37, you can only search for attributes within a single event. E.g. a sender search could be rewritten from message.module='bank' AND transfer.sender='${mySender}' to message.action = '/cosmos.bank.v1beta1.MsgSend' AND message.sender = '${mySender}'.