Add the Consensus team update for 2024-09-04

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+title: Consensus Team Update
+slug: 2024-09-04-consensus
+authors: dnadales
+tags: [consensus]
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+## High level summary
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+- Added a [snapshot-converter tool](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1222), which will be merged soon.
+This tool converts non-UTXO-HD ledger snapshots, into UTXO-HD ones, so that the user does not have to replay from Genesis when using an UTXO-HD capable node.
+This patch also solves an issue with deserialization of `TxOuts` in `Conway` in the UTxO-HD implementation.
+- [Solved](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1232) a memory leak in the UTxO-HD implementation. This patch will be benchmarked this week.
+- Wrote a [test](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1230) for adding large txs to the mempool.
+- [Expanded](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1175) the Mempool capacity beyond just byte size.
+- @amesgen discovered and advised on a Conway ledger snapshot deserialization bug.