Hydra update 2023-12-01

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-12-01-hydra
+authors: [ch1bo]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
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+
+### High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team conducted a packed Monthly Review meeting,
+featuring demonstrations and the preparation of the monthly report. They
+addressed flakiness in tests and enhanced the logs json schema,
+improving overall test reliability. Additionally, the team successfully
+built MacOS ARM64 (`aarch64-darwin`) binaries in CI, expanding platform
+support. They further improved the network configuration by detecting
+incompatible persisted states, contributing to overall system
+robustness. Finally, the team released version 0.14.0, highlighting
+their commitment to delivering regular updates and improvements.
+
+### What did the team achieve this week
+
+- Monthly Review
+  [meeting](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-iv8IveUzA2KrJV_Kqrgx4ts05Ow0zjM)
+  packed with demonstrations and prepared monthly report
+  [\#1189](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1189)
+- Fixed several flaky tests and improved the logs json schema
+  [\#1188](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1188)
+  [\#1190](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1190)
+  [\#1192](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1192)
+- Built MacOS ARM64 (`aarch64-darwin`) binaries in CI
+  [\#1182](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1182)
+- Improved network configuration by detecting incompatible persisted
+  states [\#1174](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1174)
+- Released version 0.14.0
+
+### What are the goals of next week
+
+- Start work on incremental decommit
+- Continue shepherding contributed PRs to completion
+- Finish stateless-observation work
+- Open a head on a Conway network