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• Documentation
  • Added an UNRELEASED changelog entry dated Jan 13, 2026 introducing v1.7.0 with an Improvements section summarizing recent PRs.
• Chores
  • Updated dependency metadata to align a dependency entry with the v0.23.x line (non-functional manifest updates).

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Added an UNRELEASED CHANGELOG entry (Jan 13, 2026) declaring v1.7.0 and updated the pinned github.com/evmos/ethermint replacement in go.mod and gomod2nix.toml to a newer pseudo-version and checksum. No code or exported-API changes.

Changes

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Changelog CHANGELOG.md	Added UNRELEASED entry dated Jan 13, 2026 introducing v1.7.0 with an Improvements list referencing multiple PRs (1895, 1908, 1875, 1882, 1880, 1933, 1941, 1932, 1939, 1946, 1947).
Dependency manifests go.mod, gomod2nix.toml	Updated github.com/evmos/ethermint replacement to pseudo-version v0.22.1-0.20260113030200-f6f9951cbb20 and adjusted the checksum/hash in gomod2nix.toml to sha256-G1i1bRU6Wh0+VozhMUSnY57W8TT30u0FydCe3h/Ib/o=. No other require/exports modified.

Estimated code review effort

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Possibly related PRs

• Problem: no trace detail on insufficient balance fix is not included #1679 — Also updates the github.com/evmos/ethermint dependency and adds changelog entries.
• Problem: sdk v50 is not outdated #1614 — Modifies project dependency entries for github.com/evmos/ethermint (version/replace updates).
• Problem: v0.50.x is outdated #1722 — Changes CHANGELOG.md and the go.mod replace entry for the ethermint dependency.

Suggested reviewers

• calvinaco
• randy-cro
• XinyuCRO

Poem

🐇 I hopped through commits with a twitch and a wink,
Bumped a replace, wrote notes in the changelog ink.
v1.7.0 tucked in, checksum snug and neat,
A carrot of versions — small, tidy, sweet. 🥕

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gomod2nix.toml (1)

326-329: LGTM! Ethermint dependency update is consistent and synchronized.

The version pseudo-version and hash are updated consistently in gomod2nix.toml. Verified that go.mod is synchronized with the same version reference (v0.22.1-0.20260113030200-f6f9951cbb20) in the replace directive, and the replaced module correctly points to github.com/crypto-org-chain/ethermint.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🤖 Fix all issues with AI agents

In @CHANGELOG.md:
- Around line 5-6: Update the erroneous release date string "*Jan 13, 2025*" to
the correct year "*Jan 13, 2026*" in the CHANGELOG entry; locate the line
containing the literal date token "Jan 13, 2025" and replace the year 2025 with
2026 so the entry reads "Jan 13, 2026".

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 25.51%. Comparing base (a3c2f70) to head (6ce8dfe).
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