Release v0.27.0
Release 0.27.0
New features since last release
- Enable building of python 3.11 wheels and upgrade python on CI/CD workflows to 3.8. (#381)
Improvements
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Update clang-tools version in Github workflows. (#351)
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Improve tests and checks CI/CD pipelines. (#353)
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Implement 3 Qubit gates (CSWAP & Toffoli) & 4 Qubit gates (DoubleExcitation, DoubleExcitationMinus, DoubleExcitationPlus) using (low-memory) LM architecture. (#362)
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Upgrade Kokkos and Kokkos Kernels to 3.7.00, and improve sparse matrix-vector multiplication performance and memory usage. (#361)
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Update Linux (ubuntu-latest) architecture x86_64 wheel-builder from GCC 10.x to GCC 11.x. (#373)
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Update gcc and g++ 10.x to 11.x in CI tests. This update brings improved support for newer C++ features. (#370)
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Change Lightning to inherit from QubitDevice instead of DefaultQubit. (#365)
Bug fixes
- Use mutex when accessing cache in KernelMap. (#382)
Contributors
This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
Amintor Dusko, Chae-Yeun Park, Monit Sharma, Shuli Shu