Release 0.34.0

Breaking changes 💔

• Pin the PennyLane version to <0.35. (#98)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

Release 0.33.0.post1

This release contains changes to testing to validate correct use of Rigetti's APIs and PennyLane.

Release 0.33.0

Breaking changes 💔

• Support for Python 3.8 has been removed, and support for Python 3.11 has been added. (#88)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mudit Pandey

Release 0.31.0

Breaking changes

• Remove python 3.7 support.
  (#81)

Improvements

• Update and simplify tests comparing with default.qubit to be compatible with a more recent version of PennyLane.
  (#75)

• Use the S an T gates provided by PennyLane instead of custom gates defined by the plugin.
  (#75)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Romain Moyard

Release 0.17.0

Breaking changes

• Remove Python 3.5 / 3.6 and add the compatibility tag for Python 3.8 / 3.9. (#72)

Bug fixes

• Remove SparseHamiltonian from authorized observables in tests. (#72)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Romain Moyard

Release 0.15.0

Breaking changes

• For compatibility with PennyLane v0.15, the analytic keyword argument has been removed from all devices. Analytic expectation values can still be computed by setting shots=None. (#69)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Josh Izaac

Release 0.14.0

Minor bugfix release.

Release 0.11.0

Improvements

• The PennyLane-PQ plugin now supports ProjectQ v0.5.1 (#62)

• Updates the device to support lists of custom wire labels. (#65)

Documentation

• The documentation theme has been updated, and the documentation structure
  reorganized. (#60)

Bug fixes

• Updated the plugin to use the latest IBMQBackend from ProjectQ. (#62)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld

Release 0.8

Bug fixes

• Adding the 'model': 'qubit' entry into the capabilities dictionary. Adjusting tests that previously used CV operators to use custom created operators.
  (#56)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Antal Szava

Release 0.5

Bug fixes

• The way measurement statistics works has changed in the latest version of PennyLane. Now, rather than shots=0 referring to 'analytic' mode, there is a separate analytic argument. Further, the num_shots argument has been removed from Device.samples(). (#53)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Josh Izaac