PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qiskit v0.42.0

Release 0.42.0

on GitHub

New features since last release

Improvements 🛠

• Removes use of deprecated qml.operation.AnyWires.
  (#630)

Breaking changes 💔

• Upgrade minimum supported version of PennyLane to 0.42.0.
  (#643)

Internal changes ⚙️

• Replace DefaultExecutionConfig with ExecutionConfig() and use dataclasses.replace to update
  configurations to not mutate properties.
  (#634)

• Updated tests to keep into account that wires validation on default.qubit in PennyLane now takes place
  after the mid_circuit_measurements transform is applied during preprocessing.
  (#628)

• Bumped the readthedocs.yml action up to Ubuntu-24.04.
  (#629)

• Use new pennylane.exceptions module for custom exceptions.
  (#626)

• Plugin no longer defaults to creating a session. Instead, it decides between job mode and
  session mode and chooses one or the other based on if a user has passed in a session or not.
  (#632)

Documentation 📝

• Users are now redirected to pennylane.ai/search with the doc content type selected
  and the associated project and version filters selected when using the search bar.
  (#617)

Bug fixes 🐛

• Stops queuing a mid circuit measurement on first use of qml.from_qiskit.
  (#630)

• qml.QubitChannel in a converted noise model should now act on correct number of qubits.
  (#640)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Utkarsh Azad,
Pietropaolo Frisoni,
Andrew Gardhouse,
Austin Huang,
Christina Lee,
Andrija Paurevic