Release 0.44.0

Improvements 🛠

• Added support for Python 3.14.
  (#106)

Internal changes ⚙️

• Upgraded Sphinx to version 8.1.
  (#101)

• Fix default_config access in tests.
  (#102)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Runor Agbaire,
Yushao Chen.

Release 0.43.0

Improvements 🛠

• Overload the batch_transform to carry over the validation of no analytic execution.
  (#95)

Breaking changes 💔

• Minimum supported version of PennyLane is now v0.43.0.
  (#99)

• Remove support for Python 3.10 and add support for Python 3.13.
  (#93)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Yushao Chen, Andrija Paurevic.

Release 0.42.0

Breaking changes 💔

• Upgrade minimum supported version of PennyLane to 0.42.0.
  (#92)

Internal changes ⚙️

• Bumped the readthedocs.yml action up to Ubuntu-24.04.
  (#88)

• Use new pennylane.exceptions module for custom exceptions.
  (#86)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Runor Agbaire,
Andrija Paurevic

Release 0.41.0

Internal changes ⚙️

• Pinning setuptools in the CI to update how the plugin is installed.
  (#83)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Pietropaolo Frisoni

Release 0.40.0

Breaking changes 💔

• The qml.QubitStateVector template has been removed. Instead, use :class:~pennylane.StatePrep.
  (#77)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Andrija Paurevic

Release 0.39.0

Breaking changes 💔

• Drops Python 3.9 support. (#70)

• Upgraded minimum supported version of PennyLane to 0.38.0. (#75)

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fix deprecated import path for QubitDevice. (#66)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Astral Cai, Andrija Paurevic

Release 0.32.0.post0

This postfix release updates some documentation dependencies and testing.

Release 0.32.0

Breaking changes 💔

• Drops Python 3.8 support. (#51)

Improvements 🛠

• Added support for qml.StatePrep as a state preparation operation. (#50)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mudit Pandey,
Jay Soni

Release 0.29.0

New features since last release

• Adds Python 3.11 support.
  (#43)

Breaking changes

• Drops Python 3.7 support.
  (#43)

Bug fixes

• For compatibility with PennyLane v0.29, the use of Operation.inv() has been removed,
  and replaced with qml.adjoint.
  (#45)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Lillian M. A. Frederiksen
Christina Lee

Release 0.27.0

New features since last release

• Adds Python 3.10 support. (#33)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee