MQT Core 2.6.0 Release

👀 What Changed

This release brings a couple of enhancements regarding neutral atom compilation amongst other small improvements.
Most notably, it marks the first release to ship Python 3.13 wheels (including the free-threading variant).

⚛️ MQT Core

• ✨ Python 3.13 Support @burgholzer (#656)
• 🏷️ providing a convenient CircuitInputType @burgholzer (#661)
• 🎨 Move validation function from qmap to NAComputation @ystade (#660)
• Support for Neutral Atom State Preparation @ystade (#658)
• Layer: Allow Redundant Gates @ystade (#655)
• ✨ Add customGate flag and optimizer functionality to flatten only custom gates @DRovara (#651)
• 🩹 fix erroneous cast in AodOperation @burgholzer (#647)
• ⚡ only build bindings target for Python package @burgholzer (#643)
• 🐛 Support u gate when parsing OpenQASM 2 @ystade (#639)

⚖️ MQT Core DD Package

• 🚸 make dd/Package.hpp export dd/Package_fwd.hpp @burgholzer (#640)

🚀 Features and Enhancements

• ✨ Python 3.13 Support @burgholzer (#656)
• 🏷️ providing a convenient CircuitInputType @burgholzer (#661)
• 🎨 Move validation function from qmap to NAComputation @ystade (#660)
• Support for Neutral Atom State Preparation @ystade (#658)
• Layer: Allow Redundant Gates @ystade (#655)
• ✨ Add customGate flag and optimizer functionality to flatten only custom gates @DRovara (#651)
• 🚸 make dd/Package.hpp export dd/Package_fwd.hpp @burgholzer (#640)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🩹📝 fix docs build @burgholzer (#659)
• 🩹 fix erroneous cast in AodOperation @burgholzer (#647)
• 🐛 Support u gate when parsing OpenQASM 2 @ystade (#639)

📄 Documentation

• 🩹📝 fix docs build @burgholzer (#659)

🤖 CI

• 📦 add artifact attestation @burgholzer (#638)
• 🚨🩹 fix the ruff banned-api configuration @burgholzer (#637)

📦 Packaging

• ✨ Python 3.13 Support @burgholzer (#656)
• ⚡ only build bindings target for Python package @burgholzer (#643)
• 📦 add artifact attestation @burgholzer (#638)

🧹 Code Quality

• 🚸 make dd/Package.hpp export dd/Package_fwd.hpp @burgholzer (#640)
• 🚨🩹 fix the ruff banned-api configuration @burgholzer (#637)

⬆️ Dependencies

11 changes

• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#657)
• Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates @dependabot (#654)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#653)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#650)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#648)
• Bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 in the github-actions group @dependabot (#646)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#645)
• Bump cda-tum/mqt-workflows from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 in the github-actions group @dependabot (#642)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#641)
• Bump cda-tum/mqt-workflows from 1.1.0 to 1.1.3 in the github-actions group @dependabot (#636)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#634)

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.6.0