Add Ledger team update for 2024-07-17 (#429)

blog/2024-07-17-ledger.md

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+title: Ledger Team Update
+slug: 2024-07-17-ledger
+authors: lehins
+tags: [ledger]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High level summary
+
+While we are waiting for Chang hard fork we are focusing on as much testing as
+possible. Therefore all work that was done mostly related to writing unit tests and
+conformance testing.
+
+## Low level summary
+
+### Features
+
+* [pull-4480] - Add mkTermToEvaluate on PlutusLanguage class
+
+### Testing
+
+* [pull-4464] - `constrained-generators`: fix incorrect size computation in sets
+* [pull-4472] - `constrained-generators`: fix map generator for simple cases
+* [pull-4482] - `constrained-generators`: turn off leaky test until we can fix it
+* [pull-4467] - Conformance CERT: plumbing and translation
+* [pull-4475] - Remove duplicate testing of Alonzo and Shelley in Conway
+* [pull-4478] - Remove unused variable in non-integral reference code
+* [pull-4473] - Make ErrorSpec take a (NonEmpty String) rather than [String]
+* [pull-4488] - Handle forks in the branch-history GitHub CI job
+* [pull-4469] - Conformance DELEG: Extract `Deleg` ExecSpecRule and `SpecTranslate` instances
+* [pull-4484] - Conformance GOV: translate and adjust
+* [pull-4474] - Conformance test plumbing: `CERTS`
+* [pull-4492] - Remove some unnecessary allocations
+
+### Infrastructure and releasing
+
+* [pull-4479] - Add changelog entries for `cardano-node-9.0`
+* [pull-4476] - Bump certifi from 2023.7.22 to 2024.7.4 in /doc
+
+[pull-4464]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4464
+[pull-4467]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4467
+[pull-4472]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4472
+[pull-4475]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4475
+[pull-4476]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4476
+[pull-4478]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4478
+[pull-4480]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4480
+[pull-4479]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4479
+[pull-4473]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4473
+[pull-4488]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4488
+[pull-4482]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4482
+[pull-4469]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4469
+[pull-4484]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4484
+[pull-4474]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4474
+[pull-4492]: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/pull/4492