Release v0.31.0

New features since last release

• Update Kokkos support to 4.0.01. [(#439)] (#439)

Breaking changes

• Update tests to be compliant with PennyLane v0.31.0 development changes and deprecations. (#448)

Improvements

• Remove logic from setup.py and transfer paths and env variable definitions into workflow files. (#450)

• Detect MKL or CBLAS if ENABLE_BLAS=ON making sure that BLAS is linked as expected. (#449)

Documentation

• Fix LightningQubit class parameter documentation. (#456)

Bug fixes

• Ensure cross-platform wheels continue to build with updates in git safety checks. (#452)

• Fixing Python version bug introduce in (#450)
  when Python_EXECUTABLE was removed from setup.py. (#461)

• Ensure aligned allocator definition works with C++20 compilers. (#438)

• Prevent multiple threads from calling Kokkos::initialize or Kokkos::finalize. (#439)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Vincent Michaud-Rioux, Lee J. O'Riordan, Chae-Yeun Park