This is a living document detailing upcoming releases in the Qiskit ecosystem. Dates and content are subject to change.

qiskit

Key contact: @mtreinish
Current release: Legacy name: qiskit-terra (still releases the package qiskit-terra

Qiskit has a fixed 3-month Jan-April-July-Oct cycle.

0.45 (Oct 2023)

• The previous version was 0.25. The jump is because it needs to be in sync with the metapackage.
• Important Dates:
  • Feature, Deprecation, and Removal Proposal Deadline: October 5, 2023
  • Target RC1 date: October 19, 2023
  • Target release date: November 2, 2023

qiskit-aer

Key contact: @chriseclectic
Current release:
Coming milestone: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/milestone/24

It is now recommended to import from the package qiskit_aer rather than qiskit.providers.aer, though those imports will continue to work for several more Terra versions, and will begin warning shortly. This is one of the last pieces of work towards completely disentangling the old namespace packaging. https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer/pull/1526 See https://github.com/qiskit-community/feedback/wiki/Release-Planning#qiskit-metapackage for more information.

qiskit-ibm-provider

Key contact(s): @kt474
Current release:

qiskit-ibm-experiment

Key contact: @gadial
Current release:

qiskit-ibm-runtime

Key contact(s): @kt474
Current release:

qiskit_sphinx_theme

Key contact: @Eric-Arellano
Current release:

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Extensions

qiskit-experiments

Key contact: @coruscating
Current release:
Coming milestone: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-experiments/milestone/6

qiskit-dynamics

Key contact: @DanPuzzuoli
Current release:

circuit-knitting-toolbox

Key contact: @garrison
Current release:

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Community

qiskit-algorithms

Key contact: @ElePT
Current release:

qiskit-optimization

Key contact: @t-imamichi
Current release:
Coming milestone: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-optimization/milestone/2

qiskit-nature

Key contact: @mrossinek
Current release:
Coming milestone: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-nature/milestone/5

qiskit-finance

Key contact: @stefan-woerner
Current release:

qiskit-machine-learning

Key contact: @adekusar-drl
Current release:
Coming milestone: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-machine-learning/milestone/3

qiskit-metal

Key contact: @zlatko-minev
Current release:

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Deprecated

These repositories are archived and no longer maintained.

qiskit-ibmq-provider

Current release:

Repository was archived on July 2023.

Replaced by qiskit-ibm-provider, qiskit-ibm-experiment, and qiskit-ibm-runtime . Checkout the migration guides.

qiskit-ignis

Current release:

Repository was archived on July 2022.

Replaced by qiskit-experiments. Checkout the migration guide.

qiskit-runtime

Current release: never released.

Repository was archived on February 2021.
This repository has been merged with qiskit-ibm-runtime to keep documentation closer to code. This repository is archived and no longer maintained.

qiskit-aqua

Current release:

Repository was archived on December 2021.
The code included in qiskit-aqua was split out to separate application repositories (qiskit-optimization, qiskit-machine-learning, qiskit-nature, qiskit-finance), with core algorithm and operator function moved to qiskit-terra.