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qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.6.3 - Tutorial and Bug Fixes
What's new in v0.6.3 The introductory tutorials have been reorganised so each notebook has a single, clear purpose. No content was lost — everything was moved, not deleted.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.7.0 â Lite-by-default install + install pathway cards + rebrand
Published May 22, 2026 | Version v0.7.0 Software Open The lite-flip is here. pip install quantum-metal is now small, fast, and orchestration-friendly â heavy backends (PySide6, qdarkstyle, pyaedt, pyEPR-quantum, gmsh) move out of base into opt-in extras ([gui] / [ansys] / [fem] / [full]). The deprecation cycle from v0.6.2 completes; the FutureWarning becomes truth.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.6.2 — lite-flip deprecation notice
Published May 22, 2026 | Version v0.6.2 Software Open Pre-flip release. All v0.6.x install behaviour is unchanged in this release — but import qiskit_metal now emits a FutureWarning letting you know v0.7.0 will move several dependencies out of the base install into opt-in extras (pyside6, qdarkstyle, pyaedt, pyEPR-quantum, gmsh → [gui] / [ansys] / [fem] / [full]).
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.6.1 — qutip 5 + HFSS 2024.1+ + pyEPR 0.9.5
Published May 17, 2026 | Version v0.6.1 Software Open v0.6.1 — qutip 5 + HFSS 2024.1+ + pyEPR 0.9.5 (shipped release) Note: v0.6.0 was tagged earlier but its bump-version workflow failed at the branch-protection check, so the v0.6.0 tag points at a commit where pyproject.toml still said 0.5.4 and PyPI was never updated. v0.6.1 is the actual shipped artifact for the v0.6.0 release notes plus a docs/lint hygiene pass that landed after the v0.6.0 tag was cut.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.6.0 — qutip 5 + HFSS 2024.1+ + pyEPR 0.9.5
Published May 17, 2026 | Version v0.6.0 Software Open v0.6.0 — qutip 5 + HFSS 2024.1+ + pyEPR 0.9.5 Minor version bump: this release adds HFSS 2024.1+ solver support and a new solution_types helper module — backward-compatible new functionality, not strictly a patch fix. This release brings qiskit-metal into alignment with current pyEPR (0.9.5) and qutip (5.x), adds HFSS 2024.1+ solution-type support, and fixes long-standing drift between the pip and conda install paths.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.5.3.post1 Quantum Metal (Qiskit Metal) patch release!
Description Release Notes (since v0.5.3) Pinned pyaedt version to less than 0.24 due to bugs. Bumped gmsh dependency version to 4.15.0. Full Changelog: https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-metal/compare/v0.5.3...v0.5.3.post1
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.5.3 Quantum Metal (Qiskit Metal) beta release!
This update bumps various major dependencies (scqubits, QuTiP, pandas, etc.) of Quantum Metal to their latest versions, resulting in 7x speedup in CI for Python 3.12. Installation on Python 3.12 is much faster now due to these upgrades. Additionally, there are some bugfixes and development workflow updates. Various dependency updates. Removed descartes and cython dependencies (unused). pandas, geopandas, scqubits and qutip updates to latest major version. Fixes #1027.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.5.2.post4 Quantum Metal (Qiskit Metal) beta release!
Project Management and CI Adopted uv and tox for project management. Replaces old workflow on manual development environment setup. We use the tox-uv plugin so that uv is used for all tox environments and actions. uv_build replaces setuptools as build backend. Package dependencies are now declared in pyproject.toml. pytest, ruff and sphinx were added as test, lint and docs dependencies respectively. Testing task has been changed to use pytest instead of unittest.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.5.1 Quantum Metal (Qiskit Metal) beta release!
Release Notes (since v0.5) Fixed hundreds of Sphinx warnings: proper .. meta:: :description: usage, cleaned indentation/blank-line issues, tightened list-table formatting, and added hidden TODOs where images are missing. Reworked tutorials (e.g., "Bird's-eye view" notebook) with friendlier narrative, clearer section flow, and expanded component walkthroughs; added a wrap-up section.
qiskit-community/qiskit-metal: v0.5 Quantum Metal (Formerly: Qiskit Metal) beta release!
Published December 7, 2025 | Version 0.5.0 Software Open What's Changed Fixed run_epr coming from moving renderers by @clarkmiyamoto in https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-metal/pull/956 Upgrade nbpshinx to fix circuit-examples docs by @Eric-Arellano in https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-metal/pull/958 Revert "Upgrade nbpshinx to fix circuit-examples docs (#958)" by @Eric-Arellano in https://github.com/qiskit-community/qiskit-metal/pull/965 Get rid of jupyter-sphinx and...
Utility-scale quantum computing on IBM Cloud
IBM Quantum has entered the age of quantum utility—our quantum processors can now provide useful results to problems that challenge the best scalable classical methods. Now, we need to get utility-scale processors into the hands of our users. What do we mean? Well, for the first time, we’re making utility-scale processors available on the IBM Cloud to access with a pay-as-you-go plan.
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