diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index b069af73a8..a4e7940c1d 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Lightning plugins
 
 The Lightning plugin ecosystem provides fast state-vector and tensor-network simulators written in C++.
 
-`PennyLane <https://docs.pennylane.ai>`_ is a cross-platform Python library for quantum machine
-learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization of hybrid quantum-classical computations.
+`PennyLane <https://docs.pennylane.ai>`_ is a cross-platform Python library for quantum computing, 
+quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Built by researchers, for research.
 PennyLane supports Python 3.11 and above.
 
 Backends
diff --git a/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py b/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
index 53bff7a8ba..fc88c2b31b 100644
--- a/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.43.0-dev36"
+__version__ = "0.43.0-dev37"