Release 0.36.0

New features since last release

• Support is added for using the plugin devices with Qiskit 1.0. As the backend provider qiskit.BasicAer is no longer supported by Qiskit in 1.0, this added support does not extend to the "qiskit.aer" device. Instead, a "qiskit.basicsim" device is added, with the new Qiskit implementation of a Python simulator device, BasicSimulator, as the backend. (#493)

• Backwards compatibility with Qiskit BackendV2 has now been implemented. Previously, only backends of type BackendV1 were supported but now users can choose to use BackendV2 as well. (#514)

Improvements 🛠

• Following updates to allow device compatibility with Qiskit 1.0, the version of qiskit-ibm-runtime is no longer capped. (#508)

• The test suite now runs with the most recent qiskit and qiskit-ibm-runtime, and well as with 'qiskit==0.45' and qiskit-ibm-runtime<0.21 to monitor backward-compatibility. (#508)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order): Lillian M. A. Frederiksen, Austin Huang