v0.48.0

[natestemen]

(Full Changelog)

Highlights

Bug fixes and dependency upgrade palooza! In upgrading to cirq >=1.5, we unblocked supporting reset gates in Qiskit circuits!

Thank you to @bdg221, @maloleroy, @ACE07-Sev and first time contributors @omahs and @sukrucildirr for helping make this release happen!

✨ Enhancements

• Support qiskit reset ops in PEC (Support qiskit reset ops in PEC #2821) [@natestemen]

🐛 Bug fixes

• Move pennylane import and code inside check for module (Move pennylane import and code inside check for module #2843) [@bdg221]
• Fix typos (Fix typos #2830) [@omahs]
• chore: fix typos across codebase (chore: fix typos across codebase #2826) [@sukrucildirr]
• Fix deprecated access to members of CircuitInstruction (Fix deprecated access to members of CircuitInstruction #2831) [@maloleroy]

📦 Dependency Updates

• Bump stim from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0 (Bump stim from 1.14.0 to 1.15.0 #2851) [@dependabot]
• bump docs dependencies (bump docs dependencies #2862) [@natestemen]
• bump dependencies (bump core/sdk dependencies #2861) [@natestemen]
• pin first-interaction to avoid issue-message breaking change (pin first-interaction to avoid issue-message breaking change #2858) [@natestemen]
• Bump pytket-cirq from 0.39.0 to 0.42.0 (Bump pytket-cirq from 0.39.0 to 0.42.0 #2855) [@dependabot]
• Bump pytest-cov from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 (Bump pytest-cov from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 #2856) [@dependabot]
• Bump bqskit from 1.1.1 to 1.2.1 (Bump bqskit from 1.1.1 to 1.2.1 #2845) [@dependabot]
• Bump pyscf from 2.9.0 to 2.11.0 (Bump pyscf from 2.9.0 to 2.11.0 #2844) [@dependabot]
• Bump openfermion from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 (Bump openfermion from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 #2847) [@dependabot]
• Cirq 1.6 update (Cirq 1.6 update #2837) [@bdg221]
• Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 6 to 7 (Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 6 to 7 #2836) [@dependabot]

🧑🏽‍💻 Developer Improvements

• Qbraid integration for pyquil - remove cirq-rigetti (Qbraid integration for pyquil #2832) [@bdg221]
• Address CI errors with Windows + tcl/tkinter and Ubuntu + Code Coverage (Address CI errors with Windows + tcl/tkinter and Ubuntu + Code Coverage #2834) [@bdg221]
• Bumped myst_nb and nbsphinx to try and resolve Sphinx 9 build warnings #2723 . (Bumped myst_nb and nbsphinx to try and resolve #2723 #2835) [@ACE07-Sev]

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This discussion was created from the release v0.48.0.

[natestemen]

@bdg221 @maloleroy @ACE07-Sev @sukrucildirr @omahs thank you all for helping make this release possible! Unitary Foundation is paying out $1000 for this release, split according to PR contributions and you all should have some money in an account on merit.systems.

More details can be found here (https://terminal.merit.systems/unitaryfoundation/mitiq/earnings/distributions), but let me know if you have question about collecting the funds!

[sukrucildirr]

Merit Systems did a good job of creating a bridge between funding and contribution. I claimed it and thank you so much.