Merge bee0e2a into 864ea2c

Author: antalszava

.github/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-# Release 0.17.0-dev
+# Release 0.18.0-dev
 
-### New features
+### New features since last release
 
 * PennyLane-Lightning now supports all of the operations and observables of `default.qubit`.
   [#124](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/124)
 
-* C++ layer now supports float (32-bit) and double (64-bit) templated complex data.
-  [#113](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+### Breaking changes
 
 ### Improvements
 
@@ -23,48 +22,83 @@
 * Lightning supports arbitrary unitary and non-unitary gate-calls from Python to C++ layer.
   [(121)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/121)
 
+### Documentation
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* Column-major data in numpy is now correctly converted to row-major upon pass to the C++ layer.
+  [(#126)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/126)
+
+### Contributors
+
+This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
+
+Thomas Bromley, Lee James O'Riordan
+
+---
+
+# Release 0.17.0
+
+### New features
+
+* C++ layer now supports float (32-bit) and double (64-bit) templated complex data.
+  [(#113)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+
+### Improvements
+
 * The PennyLane device test suite is now included in coverage reports.
-  [(123)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/123)
+  [(#123)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/123)
 
 * Static versions of jQuery and Bootstrap are no longer included in the CSS theme. 
-  [(118)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/118)
+  [(#118)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/118)
 
 * C++ tests have been ported to use Catch2 framework.
-  [#115](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/115)
+  [(#115)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/115)
 
 * Testing now exists for both float and double precision methods in C++ layer. 
-  [#113](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
-  [#115](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/115)
+  [(#113)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+  [(#115)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/115)
 
 * Compile-time utility methods with `constexpr` have been added.
-  [#113](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+  [(#113)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
 
 * Wheel-build support for ARM64 (Linux and MacOS) and PowerPC (Linux) added. 
-  [#110](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/110)
+  [(#110)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/110)
 
-* Add support for Controlled Phase Gate (CPhaseShift).
-  [(#112)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/issues/112)
+* Add support for Controlled Phase Gate (`ControlledPhaseShift`).
+  [(#114)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/114)
 
 * Move changelog to `.github` and add a changelog reminder.
+  [(#111)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/111)
+
+* Adds CMake build system support.
+  [(#104)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/104)
+
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
 * Removes support for Python 3.6 and adds support for Python 3.9.
-  [#128](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/128)
+  [(#127)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/127)
+  [(#128)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/128)
 
 * Compilers with C++17 support are now required to build C++ module.
-  [#113](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+  [(#113)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
 
 * Gate classes have been removed with functionality added to StateVector class.
-  [#113](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
+  [(#113)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/113)
 
-### Bug fixes
+* We are no longer building wheels for Python 3.6.
+  [(#106)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/106)
 
-* Column-major data in numpy is now correctly converted to row-major upon pass to the C++ layer.
-  [(#126)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/126)
+### Bug fixes
 
 * PowerPC wheel-builder now successfully compiles modules.
-  [#120](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/120)
+  [(#120)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/120)
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Added community guidelines.
+  [(#109)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/109)
 
 ### Contributors
 

.gitignore

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ venv/
 doc/_build/
 PennyLane_Lightning.egg-info/
 build/
+BuildTests/
 dist/
 tests/__pycache__/
 .idea

README.rst

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ repository:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ make test
+    $ make test-python
 
 while the C++ code can be tested with
 

pennylane_lightning/_version.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.16.0-dev"
+__version__ = "0.18.0-dev"