v1.8.0

The 1.8.0 release of the QDK includes a number of improvements and fixes, with a focus on refining the project references and editor completions experience.

The full list of changes is below.

What's Changed

• Fix bug for max_t_factories constraint by @msoeken in #1792
• Create Graph Coloring kata, part 1: vertex coloring problem by @tcNickolas in #1789
• Katas UI string review - QRNG by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1759
• Katas UI string review - Single-qubit gates by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1758
• [Samples] Add samples for testing operations in Q# by @Manvi-Agrawal in #1732
• Fix accumulating perf impact of qsharp.run with may shots in Python by @swernli in #1769
• Avoid errors in read-only GitHub sources by @swernli in #1787
• Support themes in kata previews by @billti in #1798
• Fix unit tests on test_interperter doing startswith(...) != -1 by @orpuente-MS in #1733
• Migrate Graph Coloring kata, part 2 by @tcNickolas in #1804
• Katas UI review - Complex arithmetic by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1803
• Improve ApplyQFT API docs by @tcNickolas in #1810
• Migrate QFT kata, part 1 by @tcNickolas in #1809
• Migrate nonlocal games 1596 task1 - quantum by @ggridin in #1745
• Implicit Namespace Parsing Recovery by @ScottCarda-MS in #1808
• Organize standard library code; add files; add author and license by @sezna in #1801
• Finish migration of QFT kata and publish it by @tcNickolas in #1814
• Update rust version to 1.80 by @orpuente-MS in #1805
• Move Unstable into its own library by @sezna in #1802
• Update rust version to 1.80 second step by @orpuente-MS in #1806
• QFT kata: fix formula formatting in square wave prep exercise by @tcNickolas in #1819
• Migrate nonlocal games: GHZ game classical by @ggridin in #1783
• Fixed some broken latex in the Measure doc by @ScottCarda-MS in #1825
• Fix test for multi_qubit_measurements/state_modification by @tcNickolas in #1830
• Allow the parser to add contextual help text to errors; Add contextual help text for parenthesized for loops by @sezna in #1828
• Make entry sample more minimal by @Manvi-Agrawal in #1684
• Enforce globally unique names for callables declared as SimulatableIntrinsic by @swernli in #1831
• Start migration of Phase Estimation kata by @tcNickolas in #1824
• Fix noisy_simulator panic when initializing with non-square Kraus matrices by @orpuente-MS in #1826
• Fix type inference for nested generics by @swernli in #1818
• Export Stdlib AND by @sezna in #1834
• Added a sample function with an implicit return by @filipw in #1811
• Katas UI review - Multiqubit systems by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1813
• Simplify targets logic and prepare exclusion list for next release by @cesarzc in #1815
• Fix code example in RFrac doc comment by @swernli in #1839
• Fix missing docs for diagnostic callables by @swernli in #1833
• Add API to convert StateDump to a dense array of amplitudes by @swernli in #1836
• Fix R1Frac doc comments by @swernli in #1851
• Finish migration of QPE kata and publish it by @tcNickolas in #1837
• Noisy simulator: return 2d python lists instead of 1d python lists by @orpuente-MS in #1786
• Fix duplicate imports being generated when using completions by @sezna in #1820
• Support call tracking within Q# code by @swernli in #1791
• Support qubit count tracking within Q# by @swernli in #1800
• Update qsharp.json.schema to include latest lints by @sezna in #1853
• Fix spans for lifted lambda idents by @swernli in #1854
• Blocks in while-expr should enforce Unit type by @swernli in #1852
• Katas UI review - QKD by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1846
• Include completions for items from the same file; Clean up completions generation for callables by @sezna in #1863
• Katas UI review - Multiqubit measurements by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1844
• Added summary section in chemistry.py by @devikamehra in #1700
• Fix type hints in python wrapper for noisy simulator. by @orpuente-MS in #1857
• Add samples of testing Q# code with classical return values by @tcNickolas in #1858
• Add edit/run for kata examples - issue 591 by @ggridin in #1829
• generate auto imports for core callables by @sezna in #1861
• VSCode shows documentation by package by @DmitryVasilevsky in #1740
• Skip errors on files with pr URI scheme by @swernli in #1867
• Katas UI review - Multiqubit gates by @SoniaLopezBravo in #1845
• Bump version to 1.8 by @billti in #1868

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0