MQT Core 2.0.0 Release

👀 What Changed

This represents the first official release of the new MQT Core package. While some aspects are still in flux, the package should be stable enough that regular version updates should be completely sufficient.

The list below summarizes all the changes that happened since the last official release (where this package was still called QFR).

⚛️ MQT Core

• 🐛 fix compiler errors in GCC-10 due to abstract return type @burgholzer (#478)
• 🐛 Miscellaneous fixes for qubit and register handling @burgholzer (#476)
• ✨ Circuit optimisation for replacing Toffoli gates with MCZ gates and Hadamards @burgholzer (#473)
• 🐛 Fix recursive circuit flattening @burgholzer (#474)
• ✨ equality comparison and hashing for operations and symbolic @burgholzer (#465)
• 🐛 properly handle repeated cancellation in single-qubit gate fusion @burgholzer (#459)
• Fixing QuantumComputation::dump file name dot count check @EliasLF (#453)
• ✨♻️ Refactor QuantumComputation API and Expose to Python @pehamTom (#371)
• 🐛 Fix output permutation deduction @burgholzer (#437)
• ♻️ switch back from nanobind to pybind @burgholzer (#432)
• 🚨 fix compiler warnings for getControls override @burgholzer (#425)
• Add invert functionality for quantum operations @martin-fink (#416)
• Add addControl, clearControls, removeControl functions on Operation @martin-fink (#411)
• 🐛 Fix inexact QPE construction @burgholzer (#417)
• ♻️ Switch pybind11 from submodule to find_package @burgholzer (#405)
• 🐛 Fix Barrier handling in remove final measurements optimisation @burgholzer (#403)
• 🩹 Remove Barrier check from actsOn method @burgholzer (#402)
• ♻️ Refactor NonUnitaryOperation class to simplify target handling @burgholzer (#399)
• 📦 Enable target support from scikit-build-core @burgholzer (#397)
• 🧑‍💻 Extensive and Reusable CI/CD Setup @burgholzer (#396)
• ♻️ Refactor handling of Barrier operations @burgholzer (#394)
• 🔥 Remove Snapshot and ShowProbabilities instructions from MQT Core @burgholzer (#393)
• 🔧 Disable NullDereference clang-tidy check @burgholzer (#383)
• 🚨♻️ Fix some warnings and improve code quality @burgholzer (#369)
• 🐛 Make MSVC work @burgholzer (#361)
• 🎉🐍 Initial mqt.core Python Package Configuration @burgholzer (#359)
• 🩹 avoid header confusion @burgholzer (#355)
• ✨ MQT Core @burgholzer (#318)
• 📝 MQT Core Rename @burgholzer (#328)
• 🚚 Move ZX Package into Source Tree @burgholzer (#327)
• 🚚 Move DD Package into Source Tree @burgholzer (#326)
• 🎨 LLVM code format and Python binding restructure @burgholzer (#321)
• 🚚 Consolidate googletest submodule @burgholzer (#320)
• 🔥 Remove MQT QFR Python package @burgholzer (#319)
• 🚚 Transfer ZX package from submodule to folder @burgholzer (#317)
• 🚚 Transfer DD package from submodule to folder @burgholzer (#316)

⚖️ MQT Core DD Package

• 🐛⚡ fix and speed up Kronecker product for DDs @burgholzer (#475)
• ⚡ fix performance regression for RealNumber computations @burgholzer (#463)
• ⚡ improved collision logic in RealNumberUniqueTable @burgholzer (#461)
• ⚡ improve numerical accuracy of multiplication and division @burgholzer (#458)
• ⚡ Completely eliminate temporary numbers borrowed from the cache @burgholzer (#457)
• 🎨 Miscellaneous code style improvements in DD package @burgholzer (#455)
• ⚡ Small performance improvements to RealNumberUniqueTable @burgholzer (#456)
• ⚡ Small unique table lookup improvement @burgholzer (#451)
• ♻️ simpler gate matrices @burgholzer (#449)
• ♻️ Replace static zero and one members with constexpr functions @burgholzer (#448)
• ⚡ Skip symmetry computation and 🔥 remove transpose method @burgholzer (#442)
• ♻️ Trim dd/Package.hpp @burgholzer (#434)
• 🐛 Fix identity handling in DD multiplication @burgholzer (#426)
• 🚸 Small corrections for statistics tracking @burgholzer (#424)
• 🚸 Follow-up for DD statistics @burgholzer (#419)
• 🚸 Better statistics tracking in DD Package @burgholzer (#418)
• Fix makeDDFromMatrix Issue in Asymmetrical Matrices @rahimiparham (#415)
• 🐛 Fix Compute Table Performance @burgholzer (#386)
• 🐛 Fix DD node leak @burgholzer (#385)
• ♻️ Eliminate DD terminal nodes @burgholzer (#381)
• 🔥 Remove ToffoliTable from DD Package @burgholzer (#380)
• 🔥♻️ Consolidate qc::Control and dd::Control @burgholzer (#379)
• ♻️ Unified DD memory management and streamlined complex number handling @burgholzer (#373)
• ♻️📝 Un-template and document complex number handling in DD package @burgholzer (#372)
• 🚨♻️ Fix some warnings and improve code quality @burgholzer (#369)
• 🐛 Make MSVC work @burgholzer (#361)

🕸️ MQT Core ZX Package

• Added RZZ, RXX, RZX, and RYY to ZX-diagrams @pehamTom (#466)

🚀 Features and Enhancements

• 🐛⚡ fix and speed up Kronecker product for DDs @burgholzer (#475)
• ✨ Circuit optimisation for replacing Toffoli gates with MCZ gates and Hadamards @burgholzer (#473)
• Added RZZ, RXX, RZX, and RYY to ZX-diagrams @pehamTom (#466)
• ✨ equality comparison and hashing for operations and symbolic @burgholzer (#465)
• ✨ adopt ruff formatter @burgholzer (#464)
• ⚡ improved collision logic in RealNumberUniqueTable @burgholzer (#461)
• ⚡ improve numerical accuracy of multiplication and division @burgholzer (#458)
• ⚡ Completely eliminate temporary numbers borrowed from the cache @burgholzer (#457)
• ⚡ Small performance improvements to RealNumberUniqueTable @burgholzer (#456)
• ⚡ Skip symmetry computation and 🔥 remove transpose method @burgholzer (#442)
• ✨♻️ Refactor QuantumComputation API and Expose to Python @pehamTom (#371)
• Add invert functionality for quantum operations @martin-fink (#416)
• Add addControl, clearControls, removeControl functions on Operation @martin-fink (#411)
• 🚸 Follow-up for DD statistics @burgholzer (#419)
• 🚸 Better statistics tracking in DD Package @burgholzer (#418)
• 🚸 Make reusable workflows more generic @burgholzer (#407)
• 🔧 Add policy max to CMake minimum required version @burgholzer (#401)
• 🧑‍💻 Extensive and Reusable CI/CD Setup @burgholzer (#396)
• ⚡ use 2x faster black mirror @burgholzer (#395)
• Add w state implementation @tyi1025 (#391)
• ♻️ Eliminate DD terminal nodes @burgholzer (#381)
• ♻️ Unified DD memory management and streamlined complex number handling @burgholzer (#373)
• ➕🪝 add new pre-commit hook for running ruff on Jupyter notebooks @burgholzer (#365)
• Cmake structure @pehamTom (#364)
• 🚸 Automatic discovery of nanobind when running outside pip install @burgholzer (#363)
• 🎉🐍 Initial mqt.core Python Package Configuration @burgholzer (#359)
• 🔧 Disable IPO per default @burgholzer (#353)
• ✨ add Issue and PR templates @burgholzer (#351)
• ✨ Add release drafter setup @burgholzer (#350)
• 📦 Support Versioning in Git Archives @burgholzer (#329)
• 👷🏼🚨⬆️ Update clang-tidy and use cpp-linter action @burgholzer (#325)
• 👨‍💻 introduce mold as default linker under Linux @burgholzer (#324)
• 👨‍💻 introduce compiler cache @burgholzer (#323)
• 👷⚡ speed up CI with independent coverage job @burgholzer (#322)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🐛 fix compiler errors in GCC-10 due to abstract return type @burgholzer (#478)
• 🐛 Miscellaneous fixes for qubit and register handling @burgholzer (#476)
• 🐛⚡ fix and speed up Kronecker product for DDs @burgholzer (#475)
• 🐛 Fix recursive circuit flattening @burgholzer (#474)
• 🚨 Adapt to latest Qiskit version @burgholzer (#471)
• ⚡ fix performance regression for RealNumber computations @burgholzer (#463)
• 🐛 properly handle repeated cancellation in single-qubit gate fusion @burgholzer (#459)
• Fixing QuantumComputation::dump file name dot count check @EliasLF (#453)
• 🩹 temporarily disable editable installs in nox jobs @burgholzer (#454)
• 🐛 Fix output permutation deduction @burgholzer (#437)
• 🩹 Reusable workflow corrections @burgholzer (#433)
• 🐛 Fix identity handling in DD multiplication @burgholzer (#426)
• 🚸 Small corrections for statistics tracking @burgholzer (#424)
• 🚨 fix compiler warnings for getControls override @burgholzer (#425)
• 🐛 Fix broken manylinux wheels @burgholzer (#422)
• 🐛 Fix inexact QPE construction @burgholzer (#417)
• Fix makeDDFromMatrix Issue in Asymmetrical Matrices @rahimiparham (#415)
• 🐛 Fix Barrier handling in remove final measurements optimisation @burgholzer (#403)
• 🩹 Remove Barrier check from actsOn method @burgholzer (#402)
• 🐛 Fix Compute Table Performance @burgholzer (#386)
• 🐛 Fix DD node leak @burgholzer (#385)
• 🔧 Disable NullDereference clang-tidy check @burgholzer (#383)
• 🐛 Make MSVC work @burgholzer (#361)
• 🩹 avoid header confusion @burgholzer (#355)
• Actually Populate the Params list from Qobjs @hillmich (#333)

📄 Documentation

• 📝 added project acknowledgements @burgholzer (#469)
• ✨♻️ Refactor QuantumComputation API and Expose to Python @pehamTom (#371)
• ♻️📝 Un-template and document complex number handling in DD package @burgholzer (#372)
• 📝 Initial RtD setup @burgholzer (#356)
• 🔒 add security policy @burgholzer (#354)
• ✨ add community health files @burgholzer (#352)
• 🚚 Fix links from qfr to mqt-core @burgholzer (#349)

🤖 CI

• 🔧 Ruff config finetuning @burgholzer (#467)
• 🩹 temporarily disable editable installs in nox jobs @burgholzer (#454)
• 🩹 Reusable workflow corrections @burgholzer (#433)
• 🐛 Fix broken manylinux wheels @burgholzer (#422)
• 🚸 Make reusable workflows more generic @burgholzer (#407)
• 🧑‍💻 Extensive and Reusable CI/CD Setup @burgholzer (#396)
• 🎉🐍 Initial mqt.core Python Package Configuration @burgholzer (#359)
• 🔧 Disable IPO per default @burgholzer (#353)
• ✨ add Issue and PR templates @burgholzer (#351)
• ✨ Add release drafter setup @burgholzer (#350)
• 👷🏼🚨⬆️ Update clang-tidy and use cpp-linter action @burgholzer (#325)
• 👨‍💻 introduce mold as default linker under Linux @burgholzer (#324)
• 👨‍💻 introduce compiler cache @b...

MQT Core 2.0.0 Release - Beta 1

👀 What Changed

With #371 being in, we are getting closer to a full release.
This constitutes the first (pre-)release of MQT Core that ships with fully-fledged Python bindings for the QuantumComputation class and class relevant to it.
Any top level projects may now start to switch to using MQT Core from Python and switch to the native Python integration with Qiskit.

MQT Core 2.0.0 Release - Alpha 4

👀 What Changed

Yet another publishing test release. Moved trusted publishing out of reusable workflow.

MQT Core 2.0.0 Release - Alpha 3

👀 What Changed

Just another PR for testing the publishing pipeline. The Python package does not contain any substantial functionality yet.

MQT Core 2.0.0 Release - Alpha 2

👀 What Changed

Another pre-release for testing the publishing pipeline.

MQT Core 2.0.0 Release - Alpha 1

👀 What Changed

This is just an alpha release to test the publishing pipeline.

Version 1.11.1 Release

This will be the last release as part of the MQT QFR project before moving forward with the transition towards MQT Core (#318).
This will also be the last release that includes the mqt.qfr Python package. That package will not be updated any further beyond this point.

What's Changed

• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.0 to 2.12.1 by @dependabot in #282
• ⬆️ Update DD package submodule by @aaronleesander in #283
• ♻️ Refactor global phase handling by @burgholzer in #284
• ⏪ Add back a opTypeFromString method by @burgholzer in #285
• Add opaque teleportation gate by @hillmich in #286
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #287
• Bump extern/json from 8fa0d7b to 6af826d by @dependabot in #291
• Bump extern/dd_package from baa0df6 to 753ef1d by @dependabot in #290
• Bump extern/pybind11 from 3cc7e42 to 4ce0517 by @dependabot in #289
• Bump extern/zx from c9d8fe5 to 653f767 by @dependabot in #288
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #292
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #293
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 by @dependabot in #294
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #295
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.1 to 2.12.2 by @dependabot in #296
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #297
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.2 to 2.12.3 by @dependabot in #298
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 by @dependabot in #299
• Bump extern/pybind11 from 4ce0517 to 956390a by @dependabot in #300
• Bump extern/dd_package from 753ef1d to f0e933e by @dependabot in #301
• Bump extern/zx from 653f767 to 9bcc6ef by @dependabot in #302
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #303
• 🚸 only add CMake targets if they do not exist by @burgholzer in #305
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #306
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #307
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot in #308
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in #310
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.3 to 2.13.0 by @dependabot in #311
• Bump extern/pybind11 from 956390a to d0232b1 by @dependabot in #313

New Contributors

• @aaronleesander made their first contribution in #283

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

Version 1.11.0 Release

The last release in this repository is quite old and a lot has happened since.

What's Changed

• 🐛 add some missing synonymous operation names by @burgholzer in #90
• ✨ add native support for sx and sxdg gates to qasm parser by @burgholzer in #95
• ✨ Measurements from output permutation by @burgholzer in #96
• ✨ CNOT Cancellation Optimization Pass by @burgholzer in #101
• Make Usage of Single Header JSON Lib Explicit by @hillmich in #125
• 🚸 Extended Operation Recognition by @burgholzer in #127
• 🐛 Fix for Qiskit Layout import by @burgholzer in #133
• 🐛 Fix bug in cancelCNOTs optimization by @burgholzer in #134
• Qubit sanity check by @pehamTom in #135
• Update timezones for dependabot by @hillmich in #139
• ✨ Integrate MQT ZX Package by @pehamTom in #128
• ⬆️📦🐛 Update ZX package by @burgholzer in #140
• Integrate changes of noise aware simulation by @33Gjl1Xe in #126
• Global phase by @pehamTom in #166
• ✨ support reset operations in Qiskit circuit import by @burgholzer in #172
• 🐛 Fix dynamic circuit transformation by @burgholzer in #173
• 🚸 Check whether a logical qubit is contained in a circuit by @burgholzer in #201
• 🐛 Fix ancillary and garbage tracking when adding ancilla qubits by @burgholzer in #202
• Update version of publish action by @hillmich in #206
• Symbolic by @pehamTom in #199
• 🐛⚡ Enable qiskit-terra>=0.22.0 compatibility by @burgholzer in #207
• ♻️📦 Modernize Python packaging by @burgholzer in #208
• Updated DD Package submodule by @hillmich in #217
• ✨ Add Method for Determining Number of Single-Qubit Gates by @burgholzer in #220
• 🐛 Fix unicode literals for C++20 by @burgholzer in #223
• ✨ Convenience features by @burgholzer in #226
• 🔥 Drop LGTM and set up CodeQL by @burgholzer in #231
• 🚨 Introduce pre-commit for consistent styling by @burgholzer in #232
• 🔧 CI Config Update by @burgholzer in #237
• ♻️ DD-independent QFR-Core by @burgholzer in #244
• 🚸 Better DD package templating by @burgholzer in #247
• ♻️ Refactor CMake Configuration and add Clang-Tidy by @burgholzer in #246
• ✨ ECC Framework by @pichristoph in #210
• Fixed a wrong property in CMake by @hillmich in #257
• 🚸 Add barrier before measurements by @burgholzer in #258
• ♻️ Simplify output permutation computation in circuit import by @burgholzer in #264
• 🐛 Fix controlled u-gate OpenQASM output by @JoachimMarin in #266
• 🩹 Fix strip idle qubits corner case by @burgholzer in #277
• 🩹 Allow removing logical qubits used in the output permutation by force by @burgholzer in #279
• ✨ Gate Extensions and ♻️ QASM Parser Refactor by @burgholzer in #280

New Contributors

• @pehamTom made their first contribution in #135
• @33Gjl1Xe made their first contribution in #126
• @pre-commit-ci made their first contribution in #243
• @pichristoph made their first contribution in #210
• @JoachimMarin made their first contribution in #266

Full Changelog: v1.10.0...v1.11.0

v1.10.0 Release: Templated DD Package and Separation of Concerns

This PR adapts the QFR to support the new DD package version. It also includes some convenience fixes such as #pragma once for header includes and fixes for the webpage links in file headers.

What's Changed

• Separate DD package functionality by @burgholzer in #75

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.10.0

v1.9.0 Release: Bugfix and Dependency Update

What's Changed

• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #64
• Bump extern/pybind11 from f495dfc to 465b2e0 by @dependabot in #63
• Bump extern/dd_package from 0333030 to 2345841 by @dependabot in #67
• Bump extern/json from e4643d1 to 700b95f by @dependabot in #65
• Bump extern/pybind11 from 465b2e0 to 2dd5254 by @dependabot in #66
• Bump extern/pybind11 from 2dd5254 to f8a532a by @dependabot in #69
• Bump extern/dd_package from 2345841 to 03f72e2 by @dependabot in #70
• Bump extern/pybind11 from f8a532a to b22ee64 by @dependabot in #71
• Bump extern/dd_package from 03f72e2 to 65f6287 by @dependabot in #72
• ✨Equality checks for Operations by @burgholzer in #73
• Bugfixes for QCEC by @burgholzer in #74

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0