Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on a mixture of Keep a Changelog and Common Changelog. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning, with the exception that minor releases may include breaking changes.

Unreleased

3.11.0 - 2026-10-12

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Changed

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.11.0 (#1188) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update clang-tidy to version 23 (#1176) (@denialhaag)

3.10.0 - 2026-09-12

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• 🎉 Add a photonic subcircuit compiler with loss-aware routing and batched phase optimization (#1059) (@tobi-forster, @burgholzer)

• ✨ Provide extended neutral-atom OpenQASM serialization through na::serializeOpenQASM (#1124) (@burgholzer)

• ✨ Provide the neutral-atom QDMI device and client integration transferred from MQT Core, preserving distinct registered devices with the same name (#1111) (@denialhaag, @burgholzer)

Changed

• 🔧 Use Ninja and shared CMake presets on all platforms, removing -windows from preset names (#1158) (@denialhaag)

• 💥 Require CMake 3.28 or newer for source builds and embedded projects (#1146) (@burgholzer)

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.10.0 (#1144) (@denialhaag, @burgholzer)

• ⬆️ Update nanobind to version 3.0.1 (#1144) (@denialhaag, @burgholzer)

• 💥 Require Python 3.11 or newer (#1126) (@denialhaag)

• 📦 Publish one split-mode cp311-abi3 wheel for GIL-enabled CPython 3.11 and newer (#1144) (@denialhaag)

• 📦 Publish one cp315-abi3t wheel for free-threaded CPython 3.15 and newer (#1144) (@denialhaag)

• 💥 Raise the minimum Qiskit version from 1.0.0 to 2.1.0 (#1144) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Own the singleQubitGateFusion, decomposeSWAP, cancelCNOTs, and replaceMCXWithMCZ circuit transformations (#1125) (@simon1hofmann, @burgholzer)

• ♻️ Own the neutral-atom computation IR and circuit operations (#1111) (@denialhaag, @burgholzer)

• 💥 Drop support for x86 macOS and stop publishing the respective wheels (#1126) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Raise the macOS deployment target to 13.3 to enable std::format in libc++ (#1126) (@denialhaag)

Fixed

• 🐛 Preserve mid-circuit measurements, resets, and barriers during single-qubit gate fusion (#1125) (@burgholzer)

• 🐛 Preserve bijective layouts when the heuristic mapper moves logical qubits (#1153) (@burgholzer)

• 🐛 Preserve the input circuit name during mapping (#1154) (@burgholzer)

• 🐛 Handle Qiskit targets without calibration properties (#1152) (@burgholzer)

3.9.0 - 2026-08-24

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• 🐍 Start building CPython 3.15 wheels (#1096) (@denialhaag)

Changed

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.9.0 (#1116) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update nanobind to version 2.15.0 (#1116) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Move output-permutation measurement construction from MQT Core into QMAP (#1106) (@simon1hofmann)

3.8.0 - 2026-07-09

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Changed

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.7.0 (#1069) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update nanobind to version 2.13.0 (#1069) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Move auxiliary datastructures used in, e.g., NASP and NALAC from MQT Core to QMAP (#1058) (@ystade)

Removed

• 📝 Remove support for generating LaTeX documentation (#1057) (@denialhaag)

3.7.0 - 2026-06-17

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• 🚸 Add CMake presets to provide a standardized and reproducible way to configure builds (#1020) (@denialhaag)

Changed

• ⬆️ Update munich-quantum-toolkit/workflows to version v2.0.1 (#1020) (@denialhaag)

• 🎨 Add two-qubit gate layer to decomposer interface in zoned neutral atom compiler ([#976]) (@ystade)

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.6.0 ([#1011]) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update nanobind to version 2.12.0 ([#1011]) (@denialhaag)

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix condition to detect previously unrecognized reuse opportunities (#953) (@ystade)

3.6.0 - 2026-02-24

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• ✨ Add a (no-op) decomposer component to the zoned neutral atom compiler (#902) (@ystade)

Changed

• ⬆️ Update spdlog to version 1.17.0 (#921) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update mqt-core to version 3.4.1 (#924) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Update nanobind to version 2.11.0 (#924) (@denialhaag)

• 🔧 Replace mypy with ty (#912) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Migrate Python bindings from pybind11 to nanobind (#911, #916) (@denialhaag)

• 📦️ Provide Stable ABI wheels for Python 3.12+ (#911) (@denialhaag)

3.5.0 - 2025-12-16

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• ✨ Add iterative diving search as a more efficient placement heuristic method (#862) (@ystade)

• ✨ Add relaxed routing method to the zoned neutral atom compiler (#859) (@ystade)

Changed

• 👷 Stop testing on ubuntu-22.04 and ubuntu-22.04-arm runners (#874) (@denialhaag)

• 👷 Stop testing with clang-19 and start testing with clang-21 (#874) (@denialhaag)

• 👷 Fix macOS tests with Homebrew Clang via new munich-quantum-toolkit/workflows version (#874) (@denialhaag)

• 👷 Re-enable macOS tests with GCC by disabling module scanning (#874) (@denialhaag)

• ✨ Enable code generation for relaxed routing constraints (#848) (@ystade)

• ✨ Add max_filling_factor to scheduler in Zoned Neutral Atom Compiler (#847) (@ystade)

• ✨ Added extension to the hybrid routing mapper to also support Bridge gates, Passby moves and Flying ancillas (#832) (@lsschmid)

• ✨ Added hybrid synthesis routing for iterative circuit constructions (#832) (@lsschmid)

Removed

• 🔥 Remove wheel builds for Python 3.13t (#874) (@denialhaag)

3.4.0 - 2025-10-15

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Added

• 👷 Enable testing on Python 3.14 (#796) (@denialhaag)

Changed

• 📝 Improve error message in the NA compiler (#804) (@ystade)

• ⬆️ Bump minimum required mqt-core version to 3.3.1 (#803) (@denialhaag, @ystade)

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix logging level parameter values and error/warning messages (#793) (@ystade)

Removed

• 🔥 Drop support for Python 3.9 (#767) (@denialhaag)

3.3.1 - 2025-08-07

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix lookup of discrete columns in routing-aware compiler (#728) (@ystade)

3.3.0 - 2025-08-04

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Added

• 🐍 Start building CPython 3.14 wheels (#717) (@denialhaag)

Changed

• ⬆️ Bump minimum required mqt-core version to 3.2.1 (#720) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Require C++20 (#720) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Neutral Atom Compiler: Merge Placement and Routing stage into a Layout Synthesis stage (#713) (@ystade)

• ✨ Expose enums to Python via pybind11’s new (enum.Enum-compatible) py::native_enum (#715) (@denialhaag)

Fixed

• 🚸 Make function to export architecture in .namachine format available from Python (#719) (@ystade)

• 🚸 Increase binary compatibility between mqt-qmap, mqt-core, and mqt-qcec (#714) (@denialhaag)

3.2.0 - 2025-07-16

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Changed

• ♻️ Restructure the Python code to introduce modules (#665) (@denialhaag)

• ♻️ Restructure the C++ code for the Python bindings to mirror the introduced Python modules (#665) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Bump minimum required mqt-core version to 3.1.0 (#694) (@denialhaag)

• ⬆️ Bump minimum required pybind11 version to 3.0.0 (#694) (@denialhaag)

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix out-of-bounds access to the vector of reuse qubits (#712) (@ystade)

Removed

• 🔥 Remove CMake function add_mqt_qmap_binding (#665) (@denialhaag)

3.1.3 - 2025-05-28

Fixed

• 🐛 Fix the CD pipeline by changing the statistics struct in the zoned neutral atom compiler (#661) (@ystade)

3.1.2 - 2025-05-27

Fixed

• 🐛 Entirely deactivate PDF export in documentation build (#660) (@ystade)

• 📝 Append the docstring for the __init__ method to the class docstring in the documentation (#660) (@ystade)

3.1.1 - 2025-05-27

Fixed

• 🐛 Deactivate PDF export in the documentation build (#659) (@ystade)

3.1.0 - 2025-05-26

Added

• ✨ Add new compilers for zoned neutral atom architectures (a routing-agnostic and routing-aware compiler) (#624) (@ystade)

• ✨ Add a new CMake function add_mqt_qmap_binding to add a Python binding library (#624) (@ystade)

Changed

• ♻️ Move the C++ code for the Python bindings to the top-level bindings directory (#624) (@ystade)

• ♻️ Move all Python code (no tests) to the top-level python directory (#624) (@ystade)

• ♻️ Restructure the Python bindings for neutral atom tools into separate modules (#624) (@ystade)

3.0.0 - 2025-05-08

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Added

• ✨ Support Qiskit 2.0+ (#610) (@burgholzer)

Changed

• 🚚 Move MQT QMAP to the munich-quantum-toolkit GitHub organization

• ♻️ Use the mqt-core Python package for handling circuits (#418) (@burgholzer)

• ⬆️ Bump minimum required CMake version to 3.24.0 (#621) (@burgholzer)

• ♻️ Adopt new NAComputation in NASP tool (#608) (@ystade)

• ♻️ Isolate NALAC from the main library (#608, #609) (@ystade)

• 📝 Rework existing project documentation (#614) (@burgholzer)

Removed

• 🔥 Remove teleportation support for the heuristic mapping (#621) (@burgholzer)

• 🔥 Remove support for BackendV1 Qiskit backends (#610) (@burgholzer)

• 🔥 Remove support for .real, .qc, .tfc, and GRCS files (#621) (@burgholzer)

• 🔥 Remove yaml-cpp dependency (#608) (@ystade)

2.8.0 - 2024-11-18

📚 Refer to the GitHub Release Notes for previous changelogs.