Prepare 2.4.0 (#15859)

* first pass over the release notes based on Bob's advice

* bump version numbers

* adding 2.4.0 prelude release note (for now just a placeholder)

* Add proper sphinx link formatting in some release notes

* moving new release notes

* Pass over release notes

* Update releasenotes/notes/prepare-2.4.0-23d96c03fb05670d.yaml

Co-authored-by: Matthew Treinish <mtreinish@kortar.org>

* Expanding prelude.

Thanks to Matthew for providing the original text. Additionally I have copied/adapted
some paragraphs from the upcoming release blog.

* Change `qk_circuit_gate_param` to `qk_circuit_parameterized_gate`

* Unify QkCircuit rendering

* moving new bugfix release note to 2.4

* undo the change to 2.3 release note

* fixing a few links, removing some blank lines

* Small release note tweaks

* Update releasenotes/notes/prepare-2.4.0-23d96c03fb05670d.yaml

Co-authored-by: Julien Gacon <gaconju@gmail.com>

* Removing duplicated release notes.

These notes have already appeared in the documentation for Qiskit v2.3.1

* Update releasenotes/notes/prepare-2.4.0-23d96c03fb05670d.yaml

Co-authored-by: Matthew Treinish <mtreinish@kortar.org>

* removing confusing sentence

* apply Julien's suggestions from code review

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Co-authored-by: Raynel Sanchez <raynelfss@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthew Treinish <mtreinish@kortar.org>
Co-authored-by: Eli Arbel <arbel@il.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Julien Gacon <gaconju@gmail.com>

Author: 5 people

Cargo.lock

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ members = ["crates/*"]
 resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "2.4.0-rc3"
+version = "2.4.0"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.85"  # Keep in sync with README.md, rust-toolchain.toml, and tools/install_rust_msrv.sh
 license = "Apache-2.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
 #define QISKIT_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define QISKIT_VERSION_MINOR 4
 #define QISKIT_VERSION_PATCH 0
-#define QISKIT_RELEASE_LEVEL QISKIT_RELEASE_LEVEL_RC
+#define QISKIT_RELEASE_LEVEL QISKIT_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
 // For the final release, set the below to 0.
-#define QISKIT_RELEASE_SERIAL 3
+#define QISKIT_RELEASE_SERIAL 0
 
-#define QISKIT_VERSION "2.4.0-rc3"
+#define QISKIT_VERSION "2.4.0"
 
 #define QISKIT_GET_VERSION_HEX(major, minor, patch, level, serial)                                 \
     (((major) & 0xff) << 24 | ((minor) & 0xff) << 16 | ((patch) & 0xff) << 8 |                     \

crates/bindgen/include/qiskit/version.h

@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ Qiskit |version| release notes
       though, which is typically `rc1` tags.
 
 .. release-notes::
-   :earliest-version: 2.3.0rc1
+   :earliest-version: 2.4.0rc1

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.4.0rc3
+2.4.0