Aer 0.15 is released to support Qiskit 1.2.
As Qiskit 1.2 deprecates V1 backends and primitives, Aer also deprecates these functionalities. Also Aer 0.15 removed standalone simulator and qobj support.
What's Changed
* Use sphinx.ext.linkcode for more precise source code links by melechlapson in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2101
* Update deprecated actions in workflows by melechlapson in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2102
* Fix noise sampling on shot-branching by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2098
* Fixes for dependency issues caused by 0.14 release by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2094
* Fix CI failures by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2106
* Replace example in README to using primitives by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2105
* Fix issue 2084 again by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2119
* Fix tests for the latest Qiskit by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2138
* Remove qiskit aer translation stage by mtreinish in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2142
* Disable test shot_branching on MacOS by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2143
* Always hook omp functions in Mac by hhorii in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2128
* Add simulator_metadata in metadata of SamplerV2 by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2109
* Fix cuStateVec_enable option by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2146
* Add support for rotation gates by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2147
* Fix deterministic measure of stabilizer by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2132
* Fix init of EstimatorV2 and SamplerV2 by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2120
* Fix deploy.yml by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2110
* Add support for ECR gate to MPS by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2137
* Handle gates with ctrl_stete=0 by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2148
* Fix random seed of unit tests by t-imamichi in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2151
* Move delay to custom instructions by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2153
* Update pylint version by chriseclectic in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2158
* Fix AerBackend.set_max_qubits by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2159
* Add `BaseQuantumError` class by chriseclectic in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2155
* Add optimized `PauliError` quantum error operator class by chriseclectic in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2156
* Pauli lindblad error by chriseclectic in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2157
* Fix example by chrisamirani in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2162
* Updated documents and tutorials which supports Qiskit 1.0 and Primitives V2 by divshacker in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2160
* Update SamplerV2 and EstimatorV2 to be compatible with those of Qiskit 1.1 by t-imamichi in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2150
* fix bit mapping inconsistency in inline of AerCompiler by hhorii in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2175
* Support `Store` and storage `Var` by hhorii in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2028
* Fixes for recent CI failures by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2186
* Fix legacy accesses of `CircuitInstruction` by jakelishman in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2179
* Remove Provider superclass, as it is deprecated in Qiskit 1.1 by 1ucian0 in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2184
* Fix from backend of V2 primitives to use existing AerSimulator by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2173
* Fix performance hints generated by clang-tidy by enum-class in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2131
* fix undefined behaviors by enum-class in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2130
* Fix legacy accesses of `CircuitInstruction` in tests by garrison in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2191
* Add apply_initialize to AerState by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2196
* Limit cvxpy version by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2189
* Reduce `pip check` in CI test on Mac by hhorii in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2200
* Rewrite `CircuitInstruction` as iterable to avoid deprecation warning of Qiskit 1.2 by t-imamichi in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2198
* Derive from `BaseSamplerV1` rather than `BaseSampler` by garrison in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2199
* Fixes for Qiskit 1.2 by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2201
* minor fix of aer_simulator.py by ElHirad in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2203
* Suppress Clang++ warnings on macOS by t-imamichi in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2205
* Update metadata of Primitives V2 by t-imamichi in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2206
* Remove standalone and qobj by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2187
* run `pip check` again in macos CI by hhorii in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2208
* Fix parameter array initialization for runtime parameter binding by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2209
* Restore MacOS Arm64 for Python 3.8 and 3.9 by doichanj in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2169
New Contributors
* melechlapson made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2101
* t-imamichi made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2151
* chrisamirani made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2162
* divshacker made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2160
* enum-class made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2131
* ElHirad made their first contribution in https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/2203
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/compare/0.14...0.15