Version 0.9.11

Added

• WeakForwardSimulator class and Kraus operator representation to facilitate weak simulation via "unraveling" (#255)
• Experimental forward simulator interface with the qibo<=0.1.7 package (#257)
• Support for single-parameter wildcard models and serialization of wildcard models (#267)
• MongoDB serialization support (#276, #284)
• Modelpacks for Molmer-Sorenson gates (#281)
• Utility functions for mapping qubit labels and padding ExperimentDesigns (#283, #290)
• CI integration for example and tutorial Jupyter notebooks

Fixed

• Various fixes to enable forward simulation with CHP for many qubits (#241)
• Various fixes in report generation (#242)
• Various circuit mirroring fixes (#243)
• Various RNG seeding fixes (#246, #254)
• Various fixes for fiducial selection, germ selection, and fiducial pair reduction (#261, #292)
• Improved performance of entanglement fidelity calculations (#263)
• Various linear algebra routine exception handling fixes (#268)
• Various wildcard model fixes (#279, #294)
• Various NumPy deprecations and fixes for Windows (#285, #287, #288)

Changed

• Updates to first-order gauge-invariant (FOGI) model parameterizations (#258)
• Moved to jinja2>=3.0 (#259)
• Significant performance enhancements for fiducial selection, germ selection, and fiducial pair reduction (#270, #274, #280)
• Python 3.6 support dropped and 3.10 support added
• Testing framework moved from nose to pytest

Deprecated

• Serialization functions with prefix 'load_' are deprecated for 'read_' versions for consistency

Removed

• CHPForwardSimulator has been removed in favor of WeakForwardSimulator with 'chp' evotype
• install_locally.py script has been removed