Release v0.38.0-rc1 (#921)

* Minor fixes to `RELEASES.md`

* unclog build

* Bump version

* The latest version of `golangci-lint` seems broken

* Revert "The latest version of `golangci-lint` seems broken"

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ for people who forked CometBFT and interact directly with the indexers kvstore.
   _and_ keep the node in its list of providers in the same way it would if
   it queried a node starting from height zero that does not yet have data
   ([\#575](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/issues/575))
+- `[abci]` Restore the snake_case naming in JSON serialization of
+  `ExecTxResult` ([\#855](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/issues/855)).
 - `[docker]` Ensure Docker image uses consistent version of Go.
   ([\#9462](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/9462))
 - `[abci-cli]` Fix broken abci-cli help command.

RELEASES.md

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ backport branch (see above). Otherwise:
 1. Start from the backport branch (e.g. `v0.38.x`).
 2. Run the integration tests and the E2E nightlies
    (which can be triggered from the GitHub UI;
-   e.g., <https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/actions/workflows/e2e-nightly-37x.yml>).
+   e.g., <https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/actions/workflows/e2e-manual.yml>).
 3. Prepare the pre-release documentation:
    * Build the changelog with [unclog] _without_ doing an unclog release, and
      commit the built changelog. This ensures that all changelog entries appear

UPGRADING.md

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ coordinated upgrade.
 ### Config Changes
 
 * A new config field, `BootstrapPeers` has been introduced as a means of adding
-  a list of addresses to the addressbook upon initializing a node. This is an
-  alternative to `PersistentPeers`. `PersistentPeers` shold be only used for
+  a list of addresses to the address book upon initializing a node. This is an
+  alternative to `PersistentPeers`. `PersistentPeers` should be only used for
   nodes that you want to keep a constant connection with i.e. sentry nodes
 * The field `Version` in the mempool section has been removed. The priority
   mempool (what was called version `v1`) has been removed (see below), thus

version/version.go

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package version
 const (
 	// TMVersionDefault is the used as the fallback version of CometBFT
 	// when not using git describe. It is formatted with semantic versioning.
-	TMCoreSemVer = "0.38.0-alpha.2"
+	TMCoreSemVer = "0.38.0-rc1"
 	// ABCISemVer is the semantic version of the ABCI protocol
 	ABCISemVer  = "2.0.0"
 	ABCIVersion = ABCISemVer