v1.17.0

We are excited to announce the v1.17 release of the Azure Quantum Development Kit. Highlights of this release include:

OpenQASM support

We've added extensive support for the OpenQASM language. This provides editor support (syntax highlighting, intellisense, semantic errors), simulation, integration with Q#, and QIR code generation, amongst other features.

See the wiki page at https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp/wiki/OpenQASM for more details.

Copilot improvements

We've improved the GitHub Copilot integration with this release. See the details at https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp/wiki/Make-the-most-of-the-QDK-and-VS-Code-agent-mode

Circuit editor improvements

We have further improved the ability to edit circuit diagrams. See the detail at https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp/wiki/Circuit-Editor

What's Changed

• Support intrinsic SX gate by @swernli in #2338
• Revert "Revert "Fix out-of-memory in typeck on nested Ty::Arrow" (#2359)" by @swernli in #2362
• Improved Drag and Drop by @ScottCarda-MS in #2351
• Broadcasting and slicing updates by @orpuente-MS in #2326
• Handle division by zero error in const evaluator by @orpuente-MS in #2333
• Support return values from custom intrinsics by @swernli in #2350
• Add copilot-instructions.md for our repo by @minestarks in #2365
• Fix panic when getting value from FunctorSet by @swernli in #2367
• Added tuple unpacking samples by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2381
• Add/Remove Qubit Lines through Drag-and-Drop by @ScottCarda-MS in #2372
• Setting up initial language service configuration. by @idavis in #2355
• Unify std libs by @idavis in #2390
• Update Known Q# Tests Cases on QIR Profile Change by @ScottCarda-MS in #2373
• Fix panic in QIR generation when conditional branches use early return by @swernli in #2388
• Ignore Dependency Errors when Getting Documentation by @ScottCarda-MS in #2374
• Fix bug with Circuit CSS not being applied to notebooks by @ScottCarda-MS in #2395
• Bug bashing fixes for qasm support by @idavis in #2393
• Don't use the start of the target as the provider id by @billti in #2396
• Copilot tools for run, estimate, circuit by @minestarks in #2380
• Remove cell language override by @idavis in #2399
• Sanitize messages by @billti in #2401
• Break on fail during debugging by @swernli in #2400
• Added three OpenQASM samples by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2394
• Add explicit cast support by @orpuente-MS in #2377
• Remove early return preventing panel from being made for empty circuit by @ScottCarda-MS in #2402
• Add reset broadcast by @idavis in #2404
• Limit inferred type sizes by @swernli in #2382
• Add measurement broadcast by @idavis in #2405
• bitstring processing is more efficient by @idavis in #2408
• Restore fancy error reporting in Python by @swernli in #2410
• OpenQASM Grover's algorithm sample by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2398
• OpenQASM Bernstein-Vazirani sample by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2403
• Users/merlinbot/1es pt auto baselining pr by @idavis in #2371
• Updates some of the CSS colors for Circuits by @ScottCarda-MS in #2409
• Fix miette dev-dependency in qsc_qasm by @swernli in #2415
• Fewer redundant errors should propagate from a lowering error. by @idavis in #2417
• Added OpenQASM samples as templates in VSCode by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2416
• Ty names are now human readable for errors by @idavis in #2418
• Fix end stmt spans for stop on failure by @idavis in #2420
• show copilot instructions prompt at startup by @minestarks in #2361
• Support Array Update Syntax by @ScottCarda-MS in #2414
• DumpOperation doesn't need its argument to have an adjoint by @swernli in #2421
• Needless operation lint should ignore lambdas by @swernli in #2406
• Drop ms.topic Metadata Field for all Non-Index Doc Files by @ScottCarda-MS in #2422
• Only surface Q# errors if there are no OpenQASM compilation errors by @idavis in #2427
• Add unit tests for OpenQASM samples by @swernli in #2431
• Remove old unused CLI tools by @swernli in #2428
• Allow implicit cast to non-const in binary exprs. by @orpuente-MS in #2430
• Remove warnings and update module name. by @idavis in #2432
• Add documentType to telemetry events by @minestarks in #2425
• Added OpenQASM Ising sample by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2435
• Adding copilot instructions by @idavis in #2436
• Adds a python integration test for circuits by @ScottCarda-MS in #2433
• Fix explicit types in for loops by @swernli in #2440
• Check that non-void functions always return by @orpuente-MS in #2434
• Dev settings by @billti in #2439
• Added OpenQASM simple teleportation sample by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2441
• Tools telemetry by @minestarks in #2429
• Fix span for CannotCallNonFunction error by @idavis in #2443
• Add sample notebooks by @idavis in #2437
• Fix SSA Pass panic when propagating dynamic values through multiple branches by @swernli in #2447
• Fix panic when passing wrong literal kind as modifier arg by @orpuente-MS in #2446
• Fix bit shifts with bit literals on lhs by @orpuente-MS in #2450
• Fix panic due to missing Unit value from assignment by @swernli in #2452
• fix shl overflow panic and add lowerer_errors test by @orpuente-MS in #2453
• Create copilot-setup-steps.yml by @minestarks in #2445
• Add gate to qasm tmLanguage file by @orpuente-MS in #2459
• Strengthen check for inference type loops by @swernli in #2448
• make the lightbulb show up for 'qdk command error' by @minestarks in #2460
• Generating files should be usable more often by @idavis in #2462
• Added OpenQASM samples into the VSCode Playground by @DmitryVasilevsky in #2458
• Allow to catch and propagate errors in all resource estimation models by @msoeken in #2457
• Update version to 1.17 by @billti in #2464

Full Changelog: v1.16.0...v1.17.0