chore: drop support for Python 3.10 and add support for Python 3.13 (#93)

* bump 3.10 -> 3.11

* setup.py and tests.yml

* changelog

* changelog

* readme

* changelog

* trigger-ci

* fix requirements.txt

* fix requirements.txt

* unpin autograd

* reduce requirements to bare bones

* make environment and update doc/requirements.txt

* Update doc/requirements.txt

Author: andrijapau

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
 
     steps:
       - name: Cancel Previous Runs

.github/workflows/upload.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Build and install Plugin
         run: |

.readthedocs.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ version: 2
 build:
   os: ubuntu-24.04
   tools:
-    python: "3.10"
+    python: "3.11"
   apt_packages:
     - graphviz
 

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 ### Breaking changes 💔
 
+* Remove support for Python 3.10 and add support for Python 3.13.
+  [(#93)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-aqt/pull/93)
+
 ### Deprecations 👋
 
 ### Documentation 📝
@@ -16,6 +19,8 @@
 
 This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
 
+Andrija Paurevic.
+
 ---
 # Release 0.42.0
 

README.rst

@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ Features
 Installation
 ============
 
-PennyLane-AQT requires Python >= 3.10. If you currently do not have Python 3 installed,
+PennyLane-AQT requires Python >= 3.11. If you currently do not have Python 3 installed,
 we recommend `Anaconda for Python 3 <https://www.anaconda.com/download/>`_, a distributed
-version of Python packaged for scientific computation. If you are using Python 3.12, 
+version of Python packaged for scientific computation. If you are using Python >= 3.12,
 ensure `setuptools` is up to date prior to installation:
 ::
 

doc/requirements.txt

@@ -1,41 +1,46 @@
-alabaster==0.7.12
+alabaster==0.7.16
 appdirs==1.4.4
-autograd==1.4
-autoray
-Babel==2.10.1
-cachetools==5.0.0
-certifi==2021.10.8
-charset-normalizer==2.0.12
+astunparse==1.6.3
+autograd==1.8.0
+autoray==0.7.2
+babel==2.17.0
+cachetools==6.1.0
+certifi==2025.7.14
+charset-normalizer==3.4.2
+diastatic-malt==2.15.2
 docutils==0.17.1
-future==0.18.2
-idna==3.7
-imagesize==1.3.0
-importlib-metadata==4.11.3
-Jinja2==3.1.4
-MarkupSafe==2.1.1
-networkx==2.8
-ninja==1.10.2.3
-numpy==1.22.3
-packaging>24
-Pygments==2.11.2
-pyparsing==3.0.8
-pytz==2022.1
-requests==2.27.1
-retworkx==0.11.0
-scipy
-semantic-version==2.7.0
-snowballstemmer==2.2.0
-Sphinx==4.5.0
+gast==0.6.0
+idna==3.10
+imagesize==1.4.1
+importlib-resources==6.5.2
+jinja2==3.1.6
+markupsafe==3.0.2
+networkx==3.5
+numpy==2.3.2
+packaging==25.0
+pillow==11.3.0
+pygments==2.19.2
+requests==2.32.4
+rustworkx==0.16.0
+scipy==1.16.1
+scipy-openblas32==0.3.30.0.2
+six==1.17.0
+snowballstemmer==3.0.1
+sphinx==4.5.0
 sphinx-automodapi==0.14.1
+sphinx-gallery==0.16.0
 sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.2
 sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2
 sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.0
 sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
 sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5
-toml==0.10.2
-urllib3==1.26.19
+termcolor==3.1.0
+tomlkit==0.13.3
+typing-extensions==4.14.1
+urllib3==2.5.0
+wheel==0.45.1
+
 # do not pin
 pennylane-sphinx-theme
-zipp==3.19.1
-git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@master
+pennylane @ git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@master

setup.py

@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     # Make sure to specify here the versions of Python supported
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Physics",
 ]