MQT QCEC 2.6.0 Release

👀 What Changed

Quite a big release for QCEC. Highlights include:

• ⚡ adoption of the new identity-less DD data structure that significantly boosts the overall performance.
• ✨ experimental support for checking partial equivalence (see https://mqt.readthedocs.io/projects/qcec/en/latest/PartialEquivalence.html)
• 🤖 adoption of uv as a package manager in CI
• 🔧 update to pybind11>=2.12

🚀 Features and Enhancements

• ✨ Adopt uv in CI @burgholzer (#384)
• ✨ Stripping DDs of their identity @burgholzer (#377)
• ✨ Partial equivalence checking @reb-ddm (#375)
• 🚸 allow using raw RST cells in jupyter notebooks @burgholzer (#370)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🐛 fix ZX-checker inadvertedly terminating early @burgholzer (#382)
• 🩹 reduce timeouts for ZX timeout tests @burgholzer (#369)

📄 Documentation

• 🚸 allow using raw RST cells in jupyter notebooks @burgholzer (#370)
• 📝🎨 better dark mode docs @burgholzer (#368)

🤖 CI

• ✨ Adopt uv in CI @burgholzer (#384)
• ✨ add sp-repo-review to pre-commit checks @burgholzer (#371)
• 🔥 remove Cirrus CI jobs @burgholzer (#367)

🧹 Code Quality

• ✨ add sp-repo-review to pre-commit checks @burgholzer (#371)

⬆️ Dependencies

9 changes

• ⬆️ update to pybind11>=2.12 @burgholzer (#383)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#381)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#380)
• Bump the submodules group with 1 update @dependabot (#379)
• ✨ Stripping DDs of their identity @burgholzer (#377)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#378)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#376)
• ⬆️🪝 update pre-commit hooks @pre-commit-ci (#374)
• Bump the submodules group with 1 update @dependabot (#373)

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0