incrementing the version number to v0.42.0 (#92)

* pre release version bump

* Fix auto-generated PR to be for v0.42.0 release

* update versions in setup, requirements and device

* add changelog entry

* Update requirements.txt

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Co-authored-by: andrijapau <andrijapau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrija Paurevic <46359773+andrijapau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: andrijapau <andrija.paurevic@xanadu.ai>

Author: github-actions[bot]

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-# Release 0.42.0-dev
+# Release 0.42.0
 
  ### New features since last release
 
  ### Improvements 🛠
 
  ### Breaking changes 💔
+
+ * Upgrade minimum supported version of PennyLane to 0.42.0.
+  [(#92)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-aqt/pull/92)
 
  ### Deprecations 👋
 

pennylane_aqt/_version.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.42.0-dev"
+__version__ = "0.42.0"

pennylane_aqt/device.py

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class AQTDevice(QubitDevice):
 
     # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
     name = "Alpine Quantum Technologies PennyLane plugin"
-    pennylane_requires = ">=0.38.0"
+    pennylane_requires = ">=0.42.0"
     version = __version__
     author = "Xanadu Inc."
     _capabilities = {

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Requirements should be as minimal as possible.
 # Avoid pinning, and use minimum version numbers
 # only where required.
-requirements = ["pennylane>=0.38", "requests"]
+requirements = ["pennylane>=0.42", "requests"]
 
 info = {
     # 'name' is the name that will be used by pip for installation