Pennylane-cirq

New features since last release

* Added support for `expval` of `Prod` observables.
[(183)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/183)

Bug fixes 🐛

* Fixes a bug where an error is raised from applying `qml.Identity` on multiple wires.
[(186)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/186)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Astral Cai

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Tests

* The sampling tests no longer set the `_obs_queue` proprerty, as setting it has no effect on the behaviour of the plugin.
[(159)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/159)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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Bug fixes 🐛

* Fixes the pasqal device when more than one circuit is executed and adds support
for specifying `wires` an iterable of wire labels.
[(151)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/151)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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Breaking changes 💔

* Python 3.8 support is dropped and Python 3.11 support is added.
[(146)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/146)

Bug fixes 🐛

* The plugin is updated to take `qml.StatePrep` operators, the new name for `qml.QubitStateVector`.
[(146)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/146)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee

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Improvements

* Failing tests corrected to reflect the new shots validation in PennyLane
[(138)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/138)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

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New features since last release

* Support for adjoint operators has been added.
[(130)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/130)

Breaking changes

* Support for inverse operators has been removed.
Note that the `inv()` method and `inverse` property are removed from PennyLane operators as of PennyLane 0.29.
[(130)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/130)

* Bumps the required PennyLane version to v0.29.0.
[(137)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-cirq/pull/137)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Christina Lee, Matthew Silverman

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