v2.17.0

Announcements

• In order to make the pyQuil examples more accessible, we recently made a new repository, rigetti/forest-tutorials, which is set up so that the example notebooks can be run via a web browser in a preconfigured execution environment on Binder. The pyQuil README now has a "launch binder" badge for running these tutorial notebooks, as well as a "Quickstart" section explaining how they work. To run the tutorial notebooks, click the badge in the README or the link here (@karalekas, gh-1167).

Improvements and Changes

• Pin the antlr4-python3-runtime package to below v4.8 (@karalekas, gh-1163).
• Expand upon the acknowledgements file to mention contributions from pre-QCS and list previous maintainers (@karalekas, gh-1165).
• Use the rigetti/gitlab-pipelines repository's template YAMLs in the .gitlab-ci.yml, and add a section to CONTRIBUTING.md about the CI/CD pipelines (@karalekas, gh-1166).
• Add another round of improvements to the README (@karalekas, gh-1168).

Bugfixes

• Replace references to non-existent endpoint init arg when constructing QPUCompilers in test_qpu.py (@appleby, gh-1164).
• Preserve program metadata when constructing and manipulating Experiment objects (@kilimanjaro, gh-1160).