Hydra update 2023-11-24

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-11-24-hydra
+authors: [ch1bo]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team spent significant time opening a head among
+themselves on `mainnet` using the release candidate, revealing and
+addressing lurking bugs such as
+[\#1174](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1174). Also
+required was this change to dynamically calculate the min utxo value
+[\#1176](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1176), a
+necessary adjustment following the switch to inline datums. The team
+engaged with `cardano-cli` / `cardano-api` maintainers to discuss recent
+changes and collaborated on drafting feature ideas, including providing
+[Conway support](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1177)
+for the Hydra roadmap. As part of ongoing improvements, they
+experimented with writing the specification in markdown instead of
+LaTex.
+
+### What did the team achieve this week
+
+- Opened head among us on mainnet and uncovered a few lurking bugs like
+  [\#1174](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1174) in the
+  release candidate
+- Calculate the min utxo value instead of hard-coding it
+  [\#1176](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1176), which is
+  needed since we switched to inline datums.
+- Met with the `cardano-cli` / `cardano-api` maintainers to discuss
+  recent changes and way forward
+- Drafted features ideas to provide [Conway
+  support](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1177) on the
+  Hydra roadmap
+- Experimented in writing the specification in markdown instead of LaTex
+
+### What are the goals of next week
+
+- Have the Monthly review meeting with several demos
+- Release version 0.14.0 with [this
+  scope](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/milestone/14?closed=1)
+- Complete tidying up chain layer via stateless observation changes in
+  hydra-node
+  [\#1096](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1096)
+- Update dependencies to prepare for Conway
+  [\#1114](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1114)