Some more Solana changes from Nick & Jonas.

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Resources:
- Renaissance Hackathon has begun - https://www.colosseum.org/renaissance
- Side tracks for the Hackathon on Superteam - https://earn.superteam.fun/renaissance/
- Anza fork of the Solana Labs Validator Client (to be named Agave) - https://solana.com/news/solana-labs-anza-fork

Commits:
- Bump platform tools version - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/35330
- ledger-tool: verify: add --record-slots and --verify-slots - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/34246
- Gives back 8 bytes to stack buffer for account data when hashing - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/35374
- Add github action to close new pull requests - https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/35400
- Rpc: deprecate getStakeActivation and make inactive_stake consistent - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/69
- windows: Use vcpkg for openssl dep - https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/pull/73
- anchor - Fix IDL - https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor/pull/2824

SIMD-0119: Additional Amounts for Distribution
- https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/119

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Solana Changelog - Mar 12 - Solana hackathon, Anza fork, Anchor IDLs, Windows support