From 4a24811d8ce4425c727a09675bd662c25ed04f17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Huang <65315367+austingmhuang@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 09:57:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Pin qiskit ibm runtime (#587)

* pin in reqs.txt

* pin

* pin

* changelogs
---
 CHANGELOG.md        | 4 ++++
 requirements-ci.txt | 1 +
 requirements.txt    | 1 +
 setup.py            | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ebca04181..fb19bde3d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
 
 ### Bug fixes 🐛
 
+* Due to the removal of the `Session` and `Backend` keywords in the 0.30 release of `qiskit-ibm-runtime`, the PennyLane-Qiskit
+  plugin now pins to `qiskit-ibm-runtime<=0.29`.
+
 ### Contributors ✍️
+Austin Huang
 
 This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
 
diff --git a/requirements-ci.txt b/requirements-ci.txt
index f24f5379c..be50f906b 100644
--- a/requirements-ci.txt
+++ b/requirements-ci.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pennylane>=0.38
 qiskit
+qiskit_ibm_runtime<=0.29
 numpy
 sympy==1.12
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad1fe23f0..ab8553367 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pennylane>=0.32
 qiskit
+qiskit_ibm_runtime<=0.29
 numpy
 sympy
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 84f1e1c77..2b630dab4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 requirements = [
     "qiskit>=0.32",
     "qiskit-aer",
-    "qiskit-ibm-runtime",
+    "qiskit-ibm-runtime<=0.29",
     "qiskit-ibm-provider",
     "pennylane>=0.38",
     "numpy",