Release v0.25.0

New features since last release

Breaking changes

• We explicitly disable support for PennyLane's parameter broadcasting. #317

• We explicitly remove support for PennyLane's Sum, SProd and Prod
  as observables. (#326)

Improvements

• CI builders use a reduced set of resources and redundant tests for PRs. (#319)

• Parallelize wheel-builds where applicable. (#314)

• AVX2/512 kernels are now available on Linux/MacOS with x86-64 architecture. (#313)

Documentation

• Updated ReadTheDocs runner version from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 (#327)

Bug fixes

• Test updates to reflect new additions to PennyLane. (#318)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Amintor Dusko, Christina Lee, Rashid N H M, Lee J. O'Riordan, Chae-Yeun Park