Release v1.12.2: Update Submodules

This is a small bugfix release including updates to submodules and automatic versioning from git tags.

What's Changed

• Bump extern/qfr from 41227dd to e13d0a8 by @dependabot in #65
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 by @dependabot in #66
• Bump extern/qfr from e13d0a8 to b38fe5f by @dependabot in #68
• Bump extern/cxxopts from 8185e6b to 5f72b52 by @dependabot in #70
• Bump extern/qfr from b38fe5f to 554a6e4 by @dependabot in #69
• Bump extern/qfr from 554a6e4 to 23a94fc by @dependabot in #71
• 🐛 fix editable installs by @burgholzer in #72
• 🐛 Fix segfault for empty circuit in PathSimulator by @burgholzer in #73
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0 by @dependabot in #75
• Bump extern/taskflow from 8ec5f37 to f25503b by @dependabot in #74
• Bump extern/taskflow from f25503b to c8b1715 by @dependabot in #77
• Bump DoozyX/clang-format-lint-action from 0.13 to 0.14 by @dependabot in #78
• Bump sphinx from 4.5.0 to 5.0.1 by @dependabot in #79
• Bump extern/qfr from 23a94fc to 0f2d1c2 by @dependabot in #76
• Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #80
• Bump extern/taskflow from c8b1715 to 96620cc by @dependabot in #83
• Bump extern/qfr from 0f2d1c2 to eca6a38 by @dependabot in #82
• Automatic Versioning for Releases by @hillmich in #84

Full Changelog: v1.12.1...v1.12.2

Release v1.12.1: Update Submodules and Documentation

This release includes support for the new dd_package interface with templated dd::Package and some updates to the documentation.

What's Changed

• Updated submodules
• Added support for new interface in dd_package
• Updated documention links to MQT

Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1

Release v1.12.0: Build wheels for Apple Silicon

Starting with this release, we are able to offer wheels for Apple Silicon via PyPI.

What's Changed

• Remove OpenMP dependency and use taskflow instead
• Build Apple Silicon wheels

Full Changelog: v1.11.3...v1.12.0

Release v1.11.3: Improved CI Workflow

This release improves the workflow for building wheels and drops support for python3.6.

What's Changed

• Pruned directories from external submodules in MANIFEST.in to reduce size of sdist to below one megabyte.
• Use ninja as generator target on supported plattforms in setup.py to improve wheel build times
• Stop building wheels for python3.6 as it's eol since a couple months

Full Changelog: v1.11.2...v1.11.3

Release v1.11.2: Bugfix and Documentation

This release is for fixing a bug that caused problems finding DLLs under Windows and for a more elaborate documation.

What's Changed

• Fixed bug on finding DLLs on Windows due to relative imports
• Extended documentation to include examples for installation on different OS with pip (to be extended further)

Full Changelog: v1.11.1...v1.11.2

Release v1.11.1: Bugfix Release

This release is mainly for fixing a bug that prevented the project to be built under Apple Silicon Macs.

What's Changed

• Create Readable Documentation by @hillmich in #39
• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #43
• Bump sphinx-copybutton from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 by @dependabot in #44
• Bump extern/taskflow from 0ca3b26 to 31699d7 by @dependabot in #45
• Fixes for Apple Silicon by @burgholzer in #48

Full Changelog: v1.11.0...v1.11.1

Release v1.11.0: Path Simulation Framework

This release adds the path simulation framework proposed in

L. Burgholzer, A.Ploier, and R. Wille, "Exploiting Arbitrary Paths for the Simulation of Quantum Circuits with Decision Diagrams," in Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2022.

To this end, two new Qiskit backends are introduced: the path_sim_qasm_simulator and the path_sim_statevector_simulator.
For further details, see the README and the corresponding paper.

Release v1.10.0: Updated Dependencies

Highlights:

• Got rid of boost program-options dependency in favor of cxxopts
• Create dependabot.yml for submodules, github-actions, and pip
• Made shots option optional in qiskit backends (default value 1024)

Smaller changers:

• Versionbump to v1.10.0
• Added files to .gitignore
• Updated README to remove mentions of boost
• Updated CIBUILDWHEEL version
• Added Pyproject.toml
• Tests for cpython3.10 since qiskit-terra supports this now

Release v1.9.1: Fix RZ Gate Definition

• Pull in fix for cda-tum/dd_package#25
• Additional wheels for Python 3.10 and musllinux
• Source install of via pip or setup.py uses available cores and native optimizations

Release v1.9.0: Update Dependencies

• Bump version to 1.9.0
• Update QFR submodule to version 1.7.0
• Exclude files in test/ from counting towards line coverage
• Update cibuildwheel action to version 2.1.1 (builds CPython 3.10)
• Fixed a race condition in HybridSchrodingerFeynmanSimulator and elaborated the tests
• Relaxed the bounds in StochNoiseSimTest
• Fixed compiler warnings across multiple simulators