refactor!: remove deprecated sdk.NewLevelDB (#13380)

* refactor!: remove deprecated `sdk.NewLevelDB`

* updates

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### API Breaking Changes
 
+* [#13380](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/13380) Remove deprecated `sdk.NewLevelDB`.
 * [#13378](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/13378) Move `simapp.App` to `runtime.AppI`. `simapp.App` is now an alias of `runtime.AppI`.
 * (tx) [#12659](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/12659) Remove broadcast mode `block`.
 * (db) [#13370](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/13370) remove storev2alpha1, see also https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/13371

types/utils.go

@@ -7,12 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/kv"
-	dbm "github.com/tendermint/tm-db"
 )
 
-// This is set at compile time. Could be cleveldb, defaults is goleveldb.
-var backend = dbm.GoLevelDBBackend
-
 // SortedJSON takes any JSON and returns it sorted by keys. Also, all white-spaces
 // are removed.
 // This method can be used to canonicalize JSON to be returned by GetSignBytes,
@@ -101,19 +97,6 @@ func ParseTime(T any) (time.Time, error) { //nolint:gocritic
 	return result.UTC().Round(0), nil
 }
 
-// NewLevelDB instantiate a new LevelDB instance according to DBBackend.
-//
-// Deprecated: Use NewDB (from "github.com/tendermint/tm-db") instead. Suggested backendType is tendermint config's DBBackend value.
-func NewLevelDB(name, dir string) (db dbm.DB, err error) {
-	defer func() {
-		if r := recover(); r != nil {
-			err = fmt.Errorf("couldn't create db: %v", r)
-		}
-	}()
-
-	return dbm.NewDB(name, backend, dir)
-}
-
 // copy bytes
 func CopyBytes(bz []byte) (ret []byte) {
 	if bz == nil {