diff --git a/x/tx/CHANGELOG.md b/x/tx/CHANGELOG.md
index b79075ab5f..3b39b3eaa9 100644
--- a/x/tx/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/x/tx/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ Since v0.13.0, x/tx follows Cosmos SDK semver: https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [v1.2.0](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/releases/tag/x/tx/v1.2.0) - 2025-05-28
+
+NOTE: this release retracts `v1.0.0` and `v1.1.0` as those releases are no longer compatible.  
+
+* This release supports CometBFT v1 ahead of Cosmos SDK v0.54
+
 ### Improvements
 
 * [#21850](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/21850) Support bytes field as signer.
diff --git a/x/tx/go.mod b/x/tx/go.mod
index 1eb7e2887b..d5a60055ee 100644
--- a/x/tx/go.mod
+++ b/x/tx/go.mod
@@ -34,11 +34,5 @@ require (
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
 
-// Replace all unreleased direct deps upgraded to comet v1
-
-// NOTE: we do not want to replace to the development version of cosmossdk.io/api yet
-// Until https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/19228 is resolved
-// We are tagging x/tx v0.14+ from main and v0.13 from release/v0.50.x and must keep using released versions of x/tx dependencies
-
 // retracting released version from unreleased sdk v0.52
 retract [v1.0.0, v1.1.0]