v1.2.0

Welcome to the v1.2.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit. The main highlights of this release are:

• Added the DumpRegister API (#1173)
• Added code distance to Resource Estimation tooltips (#1205)
• Use optimized AND for decomposition (#1202)
• Remove the "Message:" prefix from Message output by @colommar (#1175)
• Generate Q# API docs for learn.microsoft.com (#1150)
• Show codelens on entry point in VS Code to Run, Debug, Histogram, and Estimate (#1142)
• Support generating QIR with custom intrinsics (#1141)
• Fix hover info for lambdas passed to generic functions (#1161)
• Fix panic on in-place update optimization (#1149)
• Add boolean Xor API (#1100)

And much more! See v1.1.3...v1.2.0 for the full change log.

v1.1.3

Welcome to the v1.1.3 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit. This release is largely a bug fixing release of v1.1. Some notable changes include:

• Use fixed seed for random circuit generation in resource estimation sample in #1097
• Consolidate samples and run notebooks in build in #1070
• Fix typos in Q# standard lib documentation by @filipw in #1101
• Session now exits when there is a runtime failure when running without debugging in #1103
• Pure state preparation added to unstable standard library in #1068
• Use relevant icon for locals completion by @filipw in #1111
• Prefer open file contents to disk contents in #1110
• Fix BOM handling in Python in #1112
• Update spans used for some type mismatch errors in #1098
• Evaluator performance improvements in #1116
• Fix state ordering in Python in #1122
• Set notebook cell language back to Python if %%qsharp magic isn't there in #1118
• Clarify instructions on running the playground in #1134
• New factoring algorithm sample for resource estimation in #1058

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.1.3

v1.1

Welcome to the v1.1 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit. The main highlights of this release are:

• Space-time scatter charts for resource estimation via #985
• Additional samples targeted for use with resource estimation via #1019, #1033, and #1067
• Changes to the order of bits in the |ket> representation via #1079
• Highlighting of errors in cells in Jupyter Notebooks via #1071
• New dump_operation API in Python via #1055
• Added BoolArrayAsBigInt to the standard library via #1047 (thanks @filipw)
• Added ability to set random seeds for quantum or classical simulation via #1053
• Various other minor fixes and improvements

v1.0

Welcome to the v1.0 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit. Being a version 1.0 release, this release includes all of our initial features, including:

• VS Code extension for desktop and web
• Rich Q# language service support
• A Q# compiler and simulator
• Vastly improved performance over the prior QDK
• Q# debugging
• The qsharp and qsharp-widgets Python packages.
• Jupyter Notebook integration
• Quantum Resource Estimation
• Azure Quantum service integration

And more! See the release blog post for more details at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/qsharp/announcing-v1-0-of-the-azure-quantum-development-kit/