Pennylane-rigetti

New features since last release

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Deprecations 👋

Documentation 📝

Bug fixes 🐛

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New features since last release

* Added support for the `Prod` observable.
[(155)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/155)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Astral Cai

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Improvements 🛠

* Use `tape.measurements` instead of `tape.observables` to identify the type of measurement process
[(146)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/146)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

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Improvements 🛠

* Added support for NumPy versions >= 1.24
[(142)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/142)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

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Improvements 🛠

* Added support for `qml.StatePrep` as a state preparation operation.
[(137)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/137)

Breaking changes 💔

* Support for Python 3.8 has been removed, and support for Python 3.11 has been added.
[(136)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/136)

Contributors ✍️

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Mudit Pandey,
Jay Soni

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Improvements

* Remove the use of the deprecated function `qml.map` in the tests
[(129)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/129)

* Update logic in the tests to reflect the new PennyLane return type system
[(129)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-rigetti/pull/129)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Matthew Silverman

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