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From: Alexey Kuleshevich <alexey.kuleshevich@iohk.io>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 08:05:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add Ledger team update for 2024-11-06 (#501)

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+title: Ledger Team Update
+slug: 2024-11-06-ledger
+authors: lehins
+tags: [ledger]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High level summary
+
+Features that were implemented this period are mostly internal improvements to the quality of code. The only feature that stands out from this is the addition of a new query that allows users to learn the default vote for a particular Stake Pool Operator. Much improvement has also happened on the conformance testing side, as well as to the rest of the test suite.
+
+## Low level summary
+
+### Features
+
+* [pull-4666] - Mismatch for Conway predicate failures
+* [pull-4711] - Use Mismatch for Shelley, Mary, Allegra, Alonzo, Babbage
+* [pull-4722] - Create specialized newtype `VRFVerKeyHash`
+* [pull-4557] - Define CDDL via Huddle in shelley-ma
+* [pull-4733] - Alternative approach to `Annotator`
+* [pull-4735] - Add `queryStakePoolDefaultVote` state query
+* [pull-4737] - Remove deprecated and unused definitions
+
+### Testing
+
+* [pull-4718] - Avoid intermittent test failures in constrained-generators
+* [pull-4712] - (NonEmpty x) in MemberSpec
+* [pull-4713] - Better bootstrap-aware Imp tests
+* [pull-4730] - `constrained-generators`: fix flaky test
+* [pull-4729] - Added `RewardUpdate` spec translation
+* [pull-4720] - Add CC removal imptest with UpdateCommittee
+* [pull-4728] - Add a balanced TxBody specification
+* [pull-4736] - Pass the signature checking function to Agda
+* [pull-4719] - `constrained-generators`: Better shrinking for SuspendedSpec
+
+### Infrastructure and releasing
+
+* [pull-4717] - Speedup CI by disabling unnecessary steps
+* [pull-4714] - Add changelog entry for `cardano-node-10.1`
+* [pull-4734] - Update index state
+
+[pull-4718]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4718
+[pull-4666]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4666
+[pull-4717]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4717
+[pull-4714]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4714
+[pull-4711]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4711
+[pull-4712]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4712
+[pull-4713]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4713
+[pull-4730]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4730
+[pull-4729]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4729
+[pull-4720]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4720
+[pull-4722]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4722
+[pull-4734]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4734
+[pull-4728]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4728
+[pull-4557]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4557
+[pull-4733]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4733
+[pull-4735]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4735
+[pull-4736]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4736
+[pull-4737]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4737
+[pull-4719]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4719