Incrementing the version number to 0.8.0 (#66)

* Incrementing version number and modifying CHANGELOG

* Increase qiskit requirement in requirements.txt and setup.py

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
-# Release 0.7.1
+# Release 0.8.0
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
-* Set `analytic=False` as default, since by default warnings are raised
-  for hardware simulators.
-  [#64](https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-qiskit/pull/64)
-
 * Removed v1 `IBMQ` credentials, disallowed `unitary_simulator` backend to
   have `memory=True` and discontinuing support for `QubitStateVector` on
   the `unitary_simulator` backend due to Qiskit's 0.14.0 version.
@@ -19,6 +15,22 @@ Antal Száva
 
 ---
 
+# Release 0.7.1
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* Set `analytic=False` as default, since by default warnings are raised
+  for hardware simulators.
+  [#64](https://github.com/XanaduAI/pennylane-qiskit/pull/64)
+
+### Contributors
+
+This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
+
+Antal Száva
+
+---
+
 # Release 0.7.0
 
 ### New features since last release

pennylane_qiskit/_version.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.7.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.0"

pennylane_qiskit/qiskit_device.py

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class QiskitDevice(Device, abc.ABC):
     """
     name = "Qiskit PennyLane plugin"
     pennylane_requires = ">=0.7.0"
-    version = "0.7.0"
+    version = "0.8.0"
     plugin_version = __version__
     author = "Xanadu"
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-qiskit>=0.12
+qiskit>=0.14
 PennyLane>=0.7.0
 numpy
 networkx==2.3

setup.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     long_description = fh.read()
 
 requirements = [
-    "qiskit>=0.12",
+    "qiskit>=0.14",
     "pennylane>=0.7.0",
     "numpy"
 ]