Pennylane-pq

Breaking changes 💔

* Pin the PennyLane version to <0.35. [(98)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-pq/pull/98)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

This release contains changes to testing to validate correct use of Rigetti's APIs and PennyLane.

Breaking changes 💔

* Support for Python 3.8 has been removed, and support for Python 3.11 has been added. [(88)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-pq/pull/88)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mudit Pandey

Breaking changes

* Remove python 3.7 support.
[(81)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-pq/pull/81)

Improvements

* Update and simplify tests comparing with default.qubit to be compatible with a more recent version of PennyLane.
[(75)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-pq/pull/75)

* Use the S an T gates provided by PennyLane instead of custom gates defined by the plugin.
[(75)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-pq/pull/75)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Romain Moyard

Breaking changes

* Remove Python 3.5 / 3.6 and add the compatibility tag for Python 3.8 / 3.9. [(72)](https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-pq/pull/72)

Bug fixes

* Remove `SparseHamiltonian` from authorized observables in tests. [(72)](https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-pq/pull/72)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Romain Moyard

Breaking changes

* For compatibility with PennyLane v0.15, the `analytic` keyword argument has been removed from all devices. Analytic expectation values can still be computed by setting `shots=None`. [(69)](https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-pq/pull/69)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Josh Izaac