chore: release selene-core 0.2.8

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0.2.8 (2026-04-21)

Features

• add timing to builtin runtimes and batching options to softrz runtime (#158) (049e123)
• Traces for analytics (#160) (24b9978)

Bug Fixes

• classify lowered qir-qis bitcode as helios (#157) (67fca60)

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🤖 Created releases:

• selene-core-v0.2.8

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Pull request overview

Release PR for selene-core v0.2.8 generated by Release Please, updating package metadata and lockfiles and adding the v0.2.8 changelog entry.

Changes:

• Bump selene-core version to 0.2.8 across Rust (Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock) and Python (pyproject.toml/uv.lock) metadata.
• Update example Cargo.lock files to reference selene-core 0.2.8.
• Add selene-core v0.2.8 section to selene-core/CHANGELOG.md.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
uv.lock	Updates locked editable package version for selene-core to 0.2.8
selene-core/pyproject.toml	Bumps Python package version to 0.2.8
selene-core/examples/simulator/Cargo.lock	Updates example lock to selene-core 0.2.8
selene-core/examples/runtime/Cargo.lock	Updates example lock to selene-core 0.2.8
selene-core/examples/error_model/Cargo.lock	Updates example lock to selene-core 0.2.8
selene-core/Cargo.toml	Bumps Rust crate version to 0.2.8
selene-core/CHANGELOG.md	Adds release notes for 0.2.8
Cargo.lock	Updates workspace lock entry for selene-core 0.2.8
.release-please-manifest.json	Updates release-please manifest for selene-core to 0.2.8

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The package version is bumped here to 0.2.8, but selene-core/python/selene_core/__init__.py still declares __version__ = "0.2.4" (and appears intended to be kept in sync via release-please). This leaves selene_core.__version__ inconsistent with the published package version. Please update __version__ as part of the release, or switch it to derive from package metadata (e.g., importlib.metadata.version("selene-core")) to avoid future drift.