Luciano Bello

The link to the survey is surveymonkey.com/r/QOSSSurvey25

It takes about 10 minutes to complete.

The @unitary.foundation annual survey is live!

It’s a great chance to share your experience with quantum software and help shape the bigger picture.
We’re paying close attention, so fill it in, and spread the word!

The Qiskit advocate program got relaunched and applications are open!
www.ibm.com/quantum/comm...

- blogpost:
www.ibm.com/quantum/blog...
- video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzFS...
- application form:
ibm.biz/advocates-ap...

join this great community today!

Qiskit SDK v2.1 is here!

👷‍♂️ C API for circuit construction
⚙️ Transpiler improvements
📉 Improved synthesis algorithms
📦 `box` instruction enhancements

Check out www.ibm.com/quantum/blog... for more details!

Come join the team for ⚛️ Quantum Wednesday!
This week, we'll discuss 𝗤𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝟮 and what's coming up lead by our guest speaker 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼.
Discord: buff.ly/jZ0sg2p

For years, folks thought Qiskit was the quantum equivalent of a breadboard, great for teaching, not for real work.
I always disagreed.
Now you don’t have to take my word for it. This Nature Computational Science paper makes it falsifiable: Qiskit is the best production-grade SDK on the market.

Technical release summary for Qiskit SDK v2.0 is out!

🔗 www.ibm.com/quantum/blog...

🇨 Brand-new C API
📈 More performance improvements!
📦 Initial support for boxes and stretches
🚮 Removal of 1.x deprecated functionality (including qiskit.pulse ⚡)

Qiskit v2.0 migration guide | IBM Quantum Documentation How to update your project so that it works with Qiskit v2.0.

I forgot a super-important link for those transitioning to Qiskit v2.

Here are the migration guides! docs.quantum.ibm.com/migration-gu...

About what's coming:

🇨 The C interface will continue expanding in the 2.x series.

🛣️ See what else is ahead for 2.x in the roadmap qisk.it/roadmap

🪲 As always, if you find any issues, report them on GitHub
github.com/Qiskit/qiski...

Happy quantum hacking! ⚡

About documentation:

📚 IBM Quantum Learning courses are moving to Qiskit v2 in the coming weeks: learning.quantum.ibm.com

📔 Guides & API Docs are up-to-date docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit

📕 There is a new C API Documentation section! docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit-c

About SemVer docs.quantum.ibm.com/open-source/... :

🐍 Qiskit v2 is not backwards compatible with Qiskit v1. Upgrading blindly with `pip install -U qiskit` might break your code.

🦥 Qiskit v1.4 will receive bug fixes until Sept 2025. Use it as a transitional version `pip install -U qiskit>=1.4,<2`

Qɪꜱᴋɪᴛ ꜱᴅᴋ ᴠ2.0 ɪꜱ ʜᴇʀᴇ! 🚀 (Not an April Fools’ joke :) – the release technically happened yesterday in CET)

🗒️ Release Notes docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/r...

Check out the 🧵 for more info!

Still want something installable and runnable? I got you:

> pip install qiskit==2.0.0rc2

Grab the release candidate today! 🚀

Remember, you don’t need to switch to v2.0 immediately. Qiskit v1.4 will continue receiving bug fixes 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, so you have time!

👁️ If you’d like a sneak peek at the release notes, check out this very raw/work-in-progress this PR: github.com/Qiskit/qiski...
🔭 You can also find some a high-level view in the roadmap: qisk.it/roadmap#qisk...
📮 As usual, a blog post announcement with technical detail will follow the release.

𝗤𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝟮.𝟬 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁! 🚀

Feeling impatient? Check out the 🧵 to ease the anticipation!

🚀 Interested in becoming a Qiskit Advocate? Read this!
www.linkedin.com/posts/1ucian...

Have a peek at the upcoming Qiskit v2! The release candidate is now available and you can test it with `pip install qiskit==2.0.0rc1`. Let us know if something that shouldn't is broken.

2025 = 24² = 5²×9²

To celebrate this truly 🅂🅀🅄🄰🅁🄴🄳 🅈🄴🄰🅁, I decided to decorate my living room wall with one of the smallest perfect squared squares: 23 - 110A (AJD) 1990

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Release news: Qiskit SDK v1.3 is here! | IBM Quantum Computing Blog Technical release summary for Qiskit SDK v1.3, including details on top new features and improvements, and new deprecations.

Qɪꜱᴋɪᴛ 1.3 is out!

🦀 Key components now ported to Rust
📈 ~6x faster compared to 1.2
📚 The circuit library is now faster and with high-level context-aware synthesis

Learn more ibm.com/quantum/blog...

Release notes: docs.quantum.ibm.com/api/qiskit/r...

Qiskit does not do it *that* differently. The last stage of the compilation is scheduling and it's similar to your circuit-to-pulse compiler.