Continue assisting users in adopting ibc-rs (Q4 2023)

[Farhad-Shabani]

This issue is an extension of #807. It is concerned with overarching the objective of "Continue support diverse range of blockchains in adopting ibc-rs" set for Q4 2023. We here track day-to-day maintenance tasks, minor feature requests, and bugs reported by our users:

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1. serde_json uses floats that may be disallowed in WASM #850
   S: wasm +1
   
2. f32/f64/usize in cosmwasm(and other no f32/f64 envs) reproduction and fixes #894
   +0
3. Incorrect header validation during tendermint client update #911
   A: bug A: critical +2
   
4. feat: add From derive for ICS26 messages #938
   +0
5. perf: avoid temporary Vec allocations when computing commitments #939
   O: optimization +1
6. ChainId parsing fails if revision number is absent #940
   +0
   
7. Generalize signature verifier of tendermint client. #958
   +0
8. Refactor identifier length validation in ics24 implementation #961
   +0
9. optimization: reduce heap allocation #970
   O: optimization +1
10. IdentifierError variants are not mutually exclusive #978
    +0
11. Importing ibc-testkit failed #987
    +0
12. chore: More rigorous CosmWasm check and upgrade dependencies #992
    +0
13. fix: packet sequence in Timeout handlers should be encoded in big-endian #1004
    A: bug +1
14. feat: introduce convenience Status::verify_is_active method #1005
    O: maintainability +1
15. feat: derive AsRef for CommitmentProofBytes #1008
    +0
16. fix: recursive call in connection State conversion to i32 #1010
    +0
17. imp: avoid unnecessary clones and validations when creating ClientId #1015
    +0
18. imp: use global paths in generated code by ibc-derive #1017
    +0