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Enable support for 0.45.0rc1 with QPY version 9 #757
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The qiskit-ibm-provider package maintains a fork of the QPY serialization module from upstream qiskit. This is done primarily because Qiskit only supports writing a single qpy format version per release (whatever the most recent is). However, since the server side of the ibm runtime version does not always support the latest QPY format version immediately and tends to lag a bit behind what upstream Qiskit is emitting. The fork in qiskit-ibm-provider is used to control the QPY format version that is used for job submission so it ensure the leading edge only moves as quickly as the server side is updated. However, for the upcoming qiskit 0.45.0 release there were some internal object model changes and the fork of qpy (which is a copy of the qpy module from qiskit-terra 0.25.x/qiskit 0.44.x) is incompatible with those changes. This results in errors during the serialization because the qpy module is trying to serialize the circuit with assumptions of the code that do not hold with the upcoming 0.45.0 release. To further complicate matters qiskit 0.45.0 also introduced QPY version 10 which is completely incompatible with version 9 being used by the ibm runtime currently. This means the normal strategy of porting all the changes from qiskit during the upcoming release to the provider isn't viable in the short term, at least until the server side is updated to support QPY version 10. To address this compatibility in the short term, this commit is a partial backport of the changes made in qiskit 0.45.0 to the qpy module, but only those changes made to accomodate the internal qiskit changes during the release. It's also done in a manner where it doesn't require the 0.45.0 release, so that the provider can be used with either qiskit 0.44.x and 0.45.0. However, this is only a short term solution, once the server side is updated to support QPY we should use Qiskit#736 and release a new minor version of the provider package to just use QPY format version 10. This commit is explicitly only for the 0.7.x release series and is being proposed directly to the stable/0.7 branch. For 0.8.0 Qiskit#736 will port over the upstream changes to QPY including QPY format version 10 which is a more sustianable fix longer term. But this is blocked until the server side has support for QPY format version 10. To simplify the dependency tree, and to enable users to submit ibm runtime jobs using 0.45.0rc1 this targets solely compatibility between qiskit 0.45.0 and qiskit-ibm-provider 0.7.x. Fixes Qiskit#755
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+1 for getting this quickly into a patch release to unblock work requiring new features. |
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I'll get a patch release out tmrw that will include this update, |
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The qiskit-ibm-provider package maintains a fork of the QPY serialization module from upstream qiskit. This is done primarily because Qiskit only supports writing a single qpy format version per release (whatever the most recent is). However, since the server side of the ibm runtime version does not always support the latest QPY format version immediately and tends to lag a bit behind what upstream Qiskit is emitting. The fork in qiskit-ibm-provider is used to control the QPY format version that is used for job submission so it ensure the leading edge only moves as quickly as the server side is updated. However, for the upcoming qiskit 0.45.0 release there were some internal object model changes and the fork of qpy (which is a copy of the qpy module from qiskit-terra 0.25.x/qiskit 0.44.x) is incompatible with those changes. This results in errors during the serialization because the qpy module is trying to serialize the circuit with assumptions of the code that do not hold with the upcoming 0.45.0 release. To further complicate matters qiskit 0.45.0 also introduced QPY version 10 which is completely incompatible with version 9 being used by the ibm runtime currently. This means the normal strategy of porting all the changes from qiskit during the upcoming release to the provider isn't viable in the short term, at least until the server side is updated to support QPY version 10. To address this compatibility in the short term, this commit is a partial backport of the changes made in qiskit 0.45.0 to the qpy module, but only those changes made to accomodate the internal qiskit changes during the release. It's also done in a manner where it doesn't require the 0.45.0 release, so that the provider can be used with either qiskit 0.44.x and 0.45.0. However, this is only a short term solution, once the server side is updated to support QPY we should use Qiskit#736 and release a new minor version of the provider package to just use QPY format version 10. This commit is explicitly only for the 0.7.x release series and is being proposed directly to the stable/0.7 branch. For 0.8.0 Qiskit#736 will port over the upstream changes to QPY including QPY format version 10 which is a more sustianable fix longer term. But this is blocked until the server side has support for QPY format version 10. To simplify the dependency tree, and to enable users to submit ibm runtime jobs using 0.45.0rc1 this targets solely compatibility between qiskit 0.45.0 and qiskit-ibm-provider 0.7.x. Fixes Qiskit#755 Co-authored-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@ibm.com>
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Summary
The qiskit-ibm-provider package maintains a fork of the QPY serialization module from upstream qiskit. This is done primarily because Qiskit only supports writing a single qpy format version per release (whatever the most recent is). However, since the server side of the ibm runtime does not always support the latest QPY format version immediately and tends to lag a bit behind what upstream Qiskit is emitting this can cause issues for users who upgrade to the latest qiskit quickly. The fork in qiskit-ibm-provider is used to control the QPY format version that is used for job submission so it ensure the leading edge only moves as quickly as the server side is updated. However, for the upcoming qiskit 0.45.0 release there were some internal object model changes and the fork of qpy (which is a copy of the qpy module from qiskit-terra 0.25.x/qiskit 0.44.x) is incompatible with those changes. This results in errors during the serialization because the qpy module is trying to serialize the circuit with assumptions of the code that do not hold with the upcoming 0.45.0 release. To further complicate matters qiskit 0.45.0 also introduced QPY version 10 which is completely incompatible with version 9 being used by the ibm runtime currently. This means the normal strategy of porting all the changes from qiskit during the upcoming release to the provider isn't viable in the short term, at least until the server side is updated to support QPY version 10.
To address this compatibility in the short term, this commit is a partial backport of the changes made in qiskit 0.45.0 to the qpy module, but only those changes made to accomodate the internal qiskit changes during the release. It's also done in a manner where it doesn't require the 0.45.0 release, so that the provider can be used with either qiskit 0.44.x and 0.45.0. However, this is only a short term solution, once the server side is updated to support QPY we should use #736 and release a new minor version of the provider package to just use QPY format version 10.
This commit is explicitly only for the 0.7.x release series and is being proposed directly to the stable/0.7 branch. For 0.8.0 #736 will port over the upstream changes to QPY including QPY format version 10 which is a more sustianable fix longer term. But this is blocked until the server side has support for QPY format version 10. To simplify the dependency tree, and to enable users to submit ibm runtime jobs using 0.45.0rc1 this targets solely compatibility between qiskit 0.45.0 and qiskit-ibm-provider 0.7.x.
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Fixes #755