MQT Core 3.0.0 Beta 4 Pre-Release

👀 What Changed

The next pre-release in this major release odyssey.
Most notably, this contains the changes from #822 and #752.

⚛️ MQT Core

• ♻️ Refactor QASM import functionality and remove deprecated formats @burgholzer (#822)
• Ancillary and garbage support @TooMuchDakka (#635)
• ♻️ Refactor handling of gate matrices and inverses @Joshy-R (#752)
• 🔧 update Python coverage configuration @burgholzer (#811)
• 🐛 fix permutation handling in QASM dump @burgholzer (#810)
• 🐛 use fuzzy comparison for floating point in const evaluation equality check @burgholzer (#809)
• 🐛 do not invalidate iterator in block collection @burgholzer (#808)
• 🐛 Fix stripping of idle qubits @burgholzer (#763)
• ♻️ Refactor and improve register handling @burgholzer (#807)
• 🔒 update to latest uv version that properly supports dynamically versioned packages @burgholzer (#802)
• ✨ ship shared C++ libraries with mqt-core Python package @burgholzer (#662)
• ♻️🎨 Code cleanup and refactors @burgholzer (#798)
• 🚸 slightly tweak how optional qiskit dependency is handled @burgholzer (#797)
• 📝 Rework existing project documentation @burgholzer (#789)
• ➖ simplify dependencies after uv update @burgholzer (#786)
• 📄 add license headers @burgholzer (#770)
• 🚨 adapt to warnings related to Qiskit 1.3 @burgholzer (#771)
• ✨ Adopt PEP 735 dependency groups @burgholzer (#762)
• 🐛 Fix out-of-bounds error in ZX EdgeIterator and needless dummy register in empty circuit construction @burgholzer (#758)
• 🐛 properly handle timing literals in QASM parser @burgholzer (#724)
• 🔧 use separate build directories per Python version @burgholzer (#721)

⚖️ MQT Core DD Package

• ♻️🎨 Code cleanup and refactors @burgholzer (#798)
• 🎨 further DD usability improvements @burgholzer (#764)
• 🚸♻️ convenience methods and updates for DD functionality @burgholzer (#674)
• 🐛 fix endianness in DCX and XX_minus_YY gate matrix definition @burgholzer (#741)

🕸️ MQT Core ZX Package

• 🐛 Fix out-of-bounds error in ZX EdgeIterator and needless dummy register in empty circuit construction @burgholzer (#758)

🚀 Features and Enhancements

• ♻️ Refactor QASM import functionality and remove deprecated formats @burgholzer (#822)
• Ancillary and garbage support @TooMuchDakka (#635)
• ♻️ Refactor handling of gate matrices and inverses @Joshy-R (#752)
• 🐛 Fix stripping of idle qubits @burgholzer (#763)
• ♻️ Refactor and improve register handling @burgholzer (#807)
• ✨ ship shared C++ libraries with mqt-core Python package @burgholzer (#662)
• ♻️🎨 Code cleanup and refactors @burgholzer (#798)
• 🚸 slightly tweak how optional qiskit dependency is handled @burgholzer (#797)
• 🎨 further DD usability improvements @burgholzer (#764)
• 🚸♻️ convenience methods and updates for DD functionality @burgholzer (#674)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🐛 fix permutation handling in QASM dump @burgholzer (#810)
• 🐛 use fuzzy comparison for floating point in const evaluation equality check @burgholzer (#809)
• 🐛 do not invalidate iterator in block collection @burgholzer (#808)
• 🐛 Fix stripping of idle qubits @burgholzer (#763)
• 🐛 Fix out-of-bounds error in ZX EdgeIterator and needless dummy register in empty circuit construction @burgholzer (#758)
• 🐛 fix endianness in DCX and XX_minus_YY gate matrix definition @burgholzer (#741)
• 🐛 properly handle timing literals in QASM parser @burgholzer (#724)
• 🔧📝 unshallow git clone for RtD @burgholzer (#722)

📄 Documentation

• 📝 Rework existing project documentation @burgholzer (#789)
• 📄 update copyright notice @burgholzer (#788)
• 📄 add license headers @burgholzer (#770)
• 🔧📝 unshallow git clone for RtD @burgholzer (#722)
• 🔧 update release drafter template and renovate config @burgholzer (#720)

📦 Packaging

• 🔒 update to latest uv version that properly supports dynamically versioned packages @burgholzer (#802)
• ✨ ship shared C++ libraries with mqt-core Python package @burgholzer (#662)
• ✨ Adopt PEP 735 dependency groups @burgholzer (#762)

🧹 Code Quality

• ♻️ Refactor QASM import functionality and remove deprecated formats @burgholzer (#822)
• ♻️ Refactor and improve register handling @burgholzer (#807)
• ♻️🎨 Code cleanup and refactors @burgholzer (#798)
• 🚨 adapt to warnings related to Qiskit 1.3 @burgholzer (#771)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.0 @renovate[bot] (#757)
• 🔧 use separate build directories per Python version @burgholzer (#721)

🤖 CI

• 👷⬆️ update MQT workflows to v1.7 @burgholzer (#812)
• 🔧 update Python coverage configuration @burgholzer (#811)
• 👷⬆️ update MQT workflows to v1.6 @burgholzer (#803)
• 🚨 adapt to warnings related to Qiskit 1.3 @burgholzer (#771)

⬆️ Dependencies

70 changes

• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#821)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.31.1 @renovate[bot] (#820)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.29.5 @renovate[bot] (#819)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.9.4 @renovate[bot] (#818)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#816)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.9.3 @renovate[bot] (#815)
• 👷⬆️ update MQT workflows to v1.7 @burgholzer (#812)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#806)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.9.2 @renovate[bot] (#804)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.7 @renovate[bot] (#805)
• 🔒 update to latest uv version that properly supports dynamically versioned packages @burgholzer (#802)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#801)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.31.0 @renovate[bot] (#800)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.9.1 @renovate[bot] (#799)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#795)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.6 @renovate[bot] (#794)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.6 @renovate[bot] (#793)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.29.4 @renovate[bot] (#792)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.5 @renovate[bot] (#790)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.14.1 @renovate[bot] (#791)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#787)
• ➖ simplify dependencies after uv update @burgholzer (#786)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.4 @renovate[bot] (#782)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#785)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.14.0 @renovate[bot] (#784)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.28.4 @renovate[bot] (#783)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#769)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.5 @renovate[bot] (#781)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.28.3 @renovate[bot] (#780)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.3 @renovate[bot] (#779)
• ⬆️👨‍💻 Update actions/attest-build-provenance action to v2 @renovate[bot] (#777)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook sirosen/texthooks to v0.6.8 @renovate[bot] (#776)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.2 @renovate[bot] (#773)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook rbubley/mirrors-prettier to v3.4.2 @renovate[bot] (#775)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.28.2 @renovate[bot] (#774)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.1 @renovate[bot] (#765)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.30.0 @renovate[bot] (#768)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook rbubley/mirrors-prettier to v3.4.1 @renovate[bot] (#767)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.28.1 @renovate[bot] (#766)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#755)
• ⬆️👨‍💻 Update cda-tum/mqt-workflows action to v1.5 @renovate[bot] (#759)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.28.0 @renovate[bot] (#760)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.8.0 @renovate[bot] (#757)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook rbubley/mirrors-prettier to v3.4.0 @renovate[bot] (#761)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.4 @renovate[bot] (#756)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#754)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.7.4 @renovate[bot] (#753)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#750)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.7.3 @renovate[bot] (#748)
• ⬆️👨‍💻 Update actions/attest-build-provenance action to v1.4.4 @renovate[bot] (#747)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.27.3 @renovate[bot] (#749)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#746)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.27.0 @renovate[bot] (#745)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.3 @renovate[bot] (#744)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.7.2 @renovate[bot] (#743)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#742)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.13.0 @renovate[bot] (#740)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook crate-ci/typos to v1.26.8 @renovate[bot] (#739)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.7.1 @renovate[bot] (#738)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook adamchainz/blacken-docs to v1.19.1 @renovate[bot] (#737)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#736)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.12.1 @renovate[bot] (#735)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook srstevenson/nb-clean to v4.0.1 @renovate[bot] (#734)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook srstevenson/nb-clean to v4 @renovate[bot] (#733)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-mypy to v1.12.0 @renovate[bot] (#732)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.7.0 @renovate[bot] (#731)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook pre-commit/mirrors-clang-format to v19.1.2 @renovate[bot] (#730)
• ⬆️🐍 Lock file maintenance @renovate[bot] (#727)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook adamchainz/blacken-docs to v1.19.0 @renovate[bot] (#726)
• ⬆️🪝 Update pre-commit hook python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema to v0.29.4 @renovate[bot] (#725)

Full Changelog: v2.7.0...v3.0.0