Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.11.1

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Added

• Add paging support for experiments and analysis results (#807)
• Pass hub/group/project to POST /experiments (#796)

Fixed

• Avoid infinite loop when passing IBMQRandomService to child (#805)
• Cancel job if submit failed partially (#801)
• Handle new list API response body format (#788)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.11.0

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Removed

• Drop support for Python 3.5 (#779)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.10.0

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Added

• Experiment service (#765)
• Asynchronous CQC extractors (#766)
• Add reservation info to Jupyter widgets (#733)

Removed

• Drop support for Python 3.5 (#750)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.9.0

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Added

• Add random number generator service (#754)

Fixed

• add composer statuses (#746)
• Suppress timeout error from waiting for old job (#738)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.8.0

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Deprecated

• Deprecate Qconfig.py (#721)

Added

• Take reservations into account in least_busy (#732)
• Allow querying for backed reservations (#731)
• Add error message in IBMQJobFailureError (#719)
• Add qiskit version to result (#699)
• ManagedResult.combine_results() that returns combined Result (#687)

Changed

• Use newer websockets for Python 3.7+ (#701)
• Use local time for backend properties (#696)

Fixed

• Don't use the default WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy (#705)
• fix offline backend fig (#707)
• fix None job tags (#698)
• Use job creation date for pagination (#695)
• Fix setup.py to require terra 0.14 (#678)
• Use v1 status endpoints (#669)
• Fix job status incorrectly shown as RUNNING (#663)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.7.2

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Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.7.1

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where job status was incorrectly shown as RUNNING when it
  should be QUEUED. (#663)
• Fixed timestamp formats in QueueInfo. (#668)
• Fixed timestamp formats in backend.configuration() and backend.properties()
  return values. (#658)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.7.0

Added

• A new exception, IBMQBackendJobLimitError, is now raised if a job
  could not be submitted because the limit on active jobs has been reached. (#629)
• IBMQJob and ManagedJobSet both have two new methods update_name() and
  update_tags(). They are used to change the name and tags of a job or job set,
  respectively. (#590)
• IBMQFactory.save_account() and IBMQFactory.enable_account() now accept
  the optional parameters hub, group, project, which allow specifying a
  default provider to save to disk or use, respectively. (#611)

Changed

• IBMQJob.creation_date() and IBMQJob.time_per_step() now return date time
  information as a datetime object in local time. Also, the parameters
  start_datetime and end_datetime, of IBMQBackendService.jobs() and
  IBMQBackend.jobs(), can now be specified in local time. (#622)

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where nest_asyncio.apply() may raise an exception
  if there is no asyncio loop due to threading. (#595)

Removed

• The done(), running(), and cancelled() methods were removed from
  IBMQJob, since they are now a part of BaseJob.
• Marshmallow validation is removed for performance. (#632)

Deprecated

• The from_dict() and to_dict() methods of IBMQJob are deprecated and
  will be removed in the next release. (#632)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.6.1

Fixed

• Increased timeout value to allow large Qobj to be uploaded. (#626)
• Added a JSON decoder to convert lists in Qobj to complex. (#631)

Qiskit IBMQ Provider 0.6.0

Added

• There are three new exceptions: VisualizationError, VisualizationValueError,
  and VisualizationTypeError. These are now used in the visualization modules when
  an exception is raised. Also, IBMQBackend.status() now raises a
  IBMQBackendApiProtocolError exception, instead of a general LookupError,
  if there was an issue with validating the status. (#572)
• You can now set the logging level and specify a log file using the environment
  variables QSIKIT_IBMQ_PROVIDER_LOG_LEVEL and QISKIT_IBMQ_PROVIDER_LOG_FILE,
  respectively. Note that the name of the logger is qiskit.providers.ibmq. (#579)
• IBMQJob now has a new method scheduling_mode() that returns the scheduling
  mode the job is in. (#593)
• IQX-related tutorials that used to be in qiskit-iqx-tutorials are now in
  qiskit-ibmq-provider. (#603)

Changed

• IBMQBackend.jobs() now accepts a new boolean parameter descending,
  which can be used to indicate whether the jobs should be returned in
  descending or ascending order. (#533)
• IBMQJobManager now looks at the job limit and waits for old jobs
  to finish before submitting new ones if the limit has been reached. (#533)