Add this week's hydra team update (#267)

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-10-06-hydra
+authors: [ffakenz]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High-level summary
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+This week, the Hydra team released version 0.13.0, which includes fixes and extensions for state persistency and the ability to draft a commit transaction using inline datums.
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+The team also delivered the first version of the network resilience layer, significantly increasing head availability.
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+Additionally, they have been providing support to several funded Catalyst projects that want to build on Hydra.
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+Last but not least, they updated and published security policy and vulnerability disclosure policy reports on how to handle security vulnerabilities within Hydra.
+
+
+## What did the team achieve this week
+-   Release [0.13.0](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/releases/tag/0.13.0)
+-   Published vulnerability reports [#1088](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1088)
+-   Merged network resilience work part I [#1074](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1074)
+-   Planning for Cardano Summit participation 
+-   Discussions with funded Catalyst projects wanting to build on Hydra for support
+-   Merged typos fix PR from @omahs [#1095](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1095)
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+
+## What are the goals of next week
+
+-   Complete Aiken commit validator script [#1072](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1072)
+-   Complete Kupo integration [#1078](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1078)
+-   Brick upgrade on TUI [#1103](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1103)
+-   Clean backlog
+-   Prepare and rehearse demo and talk for Cardano Summit