diff --git a/.changelog/unreleased/dependencies/2120-github-com-cometbft-cometbft-0-38-11.md b/.changelog/unreleased/dependencies/2120-github-com-cometbft-cometbft-0-38-11.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4f911beaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/unreleased/dependencies/2120-github-com-cometbft-cometbft-0-38-11.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* `github.com/cometbft/cometbft` bumped to v0.38.11 (from v0.38.10) [PR 2120](https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance/pull/2120).
diff --git a/cmd/provenanced/cmd/config_test.go b/cmd/provenanced/cmd/config_test.go
index 754883962..61e6dc364 100644
--- a/cmd/provenanced/cmd/config_test.go
+++ b/cmd/provenanced/cmd/config_test.go
@@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ func (s *ConfigTestSuite) TestConfigCmdGet() {
 		monikerLineMatch := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^moniker="([^"]*)"$`).FindStringSubmatch(noArgsOut)
 		s.Require().Len(monikerLineMatch, 2, "moniker line regexp sub-matches")
 		moniker := monikerLineMatch[1]
+		// The CometBFT version (not sure why that's in a config file, but whatever) changes each time the CometBFT
+		// library is bumped. So we'll get it and make sure it's in the right format, but we won't care about the
+		// specific value it has. The line should look something like this: `version="0.38.11"`.
+		versionLineMatch := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^version="([^"]*[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+[^"]*)"$`).FindStringSubmatch(noArgsOut)
+		s.Require().Len(versionLineMatch, 2, "CometBFT version line regexp sub-matches")
+		version := versionLineMatch[1]
 
 		expectedAll := s.makeMultiLine(
 			s.makeAppConfigHeaderLines(),
@@ -322,9 +328,9 @@ log_level="info"`,
 priv_validator_key_file="config/priv_validator_key.json"
 priv_validator_laddr=""
 priv_validator_state_file="data/priv_validator_state.json"
-proxy_app="tcp://127.0.0.1:26658"
-version="0.38.10"
-blocksync.version="v0"
+proxy_app="tcp://127.0.0.1:26658"`,
+			fmt.Sprintf("version=%q", version),
+			`blocksync.version="v0"
 consensus.create_empty_blocks=true
 consensus.create_empty_blocks_interval="0s"
 consensus.double_sign_check_height=0
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 12a866894..a39ae4402 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ require (
 	cosmossdk.io/x/upgrade v0.1.3
 	github.com/CosmWasm/wasmd v0.52.0
 	github.com/CosmWasm/wasmvm/v2 v2.1.2
-	github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.10
+	github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.11
 	github.com/cometbft/cometbft-db v0.9.1
 	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-db v1.0.2
 	github.com/cosmos/cosmos-proto v1.0.0-beta.5
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b89dcc883..bbb5e338d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ github.com/cockroachdb/redact v1.1.5/go.mod h1:BVNblN9mBWFyMyqK1k3AAiSxhvhfK2oOZ
 github.com/cockroachdb/tokenbucket v0.0.0-20230807174530-cc333fc44b06 h1:zuQyyAKVxetITBuuhv3BI9cMrmStnpT18zmgmTxunpo=
 github.com/cockroachdb/tokenbucket v0.0.0-20230807174530-cc333fc44b06/go.mod h1:7nc4anLGjupUW/PeY5qiNYsdNXj7zopG+eqsS7To5IQ=
 github.com/codahale/hdrhistogram v0.0.0-20161010025455-3a0bb77429bd/go.mod h1:sE/e/2PUdi/liOCUjSTXgM1o87ZssimdTWN964YiIeI=
-github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.10 h1:2ePuglchT+j0Iao+cfmt/nw5U7K2lnGDzXSUPGVdXaU=
-github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.10/go.mod h1:jHPx9vQpWzPHEAiYI/7EDKaB1NXhK6o3SArrrY8ExKc=
+github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.11 h1:6bNDUB8/xq4uYonYwIfGc9OqK1ZH4NkdaMmR1LZIJqk=
+github.com/cometbft/cometbft v0.38.11/go.mod h1:jHPx9vQpWzPHEAiYI/7EDKaB1NXhK6o3SArrrY8ExKc=
 github.com/cometbft/cometbft-db v0.9.1 h1:MIhVX5ja5bXNHF8EYrThkG9F7r9kSfv8BX4LWaxWJ4M=
 github.com/cometbft/cometbft-db v0.9.1/go.mod h1:iliyWaoV0mRwBJoizElCwwRA9Tf7jZJOURcRZF9m60U=
 github.com/containerd/continuity v0.3.0 h1:nisirsYROK15TAMVukJOUyGJjz4BNQJBVsNvAXZJ/eg=