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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2025-01-08-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+Returning from a well-earned break the team has merged the major part of the
+work on incremental commits and is now seeking feedback from the community on
+this feature. We continue to work on the final changes (in the spec) and
+continue testing the feature ourselves. We carry on with our work on the
+hydra-explorer and custom ledger investigations, as wel as getting into some
+planning for the new year.
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* Merged the bulk of the incremental commits work! [#1715](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1715)
+* Progress on custom ledger experiment [#1742](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1742)
+* Progress on Hydra explorer supporting multiple versions [#1282](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1282)
+* Docusaurus upgrade [#1768](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1768)
+* Staying up-to-date with cardano api [#1760](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1760) and [#1772](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1772)
+* Various cleanups and debugging improvements: [#1755](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1755), [#1749](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1749), [#1767](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1767), [#1762](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1762), [#1774](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1774), [#1776](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1776).
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Final work on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)
+* Finish Hydra explorer supporting multiple versions [#1282](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1282)
+* Finish custom ledger experiment [#1742](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1742)
+* Plan the [0.20.0 release](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.20.0)
+* Continue support Hydra Doom