v0.18.0

This release cycle focused on review and approval of two RFCs, one for Readout Error Mitigation (REM) #1387 and one for Identity insertion noise scaling #335 (not listed as PRs). It also includes bug fixes and minor dependency upgrades.

What's Changed

• 0.18.0 in dev by @natestemen in #1433
• Add executor with a backend argument in mitiq_qiskit utils by @andreamari in #1409
• Update pyquil requirement from ~=3.2.1 to ~=3.3.0 by @dependabot in #1436
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.28.1 to ~=1.29.0 by @dependabot in #1437
• Update sphinxcontrib-bibtex requirement from ~=2.4.2 to ~=2.5.0 by @dependabot in #1457
• remove patch release docs by @natestemen in #1435
• Simplify issue/PR templates by @natestemen in #1315
• Update amazon-braket-sdk requirement from ~=1.29.0 to ~=1.29.2 by @dependabot in #1459
• Update qiskit requirement from ~=0.37.1 to ~=0.37.2 by @dependabot in #1458
• Mid circuit measurement fixed for ddd by @Aaron-Robertson in #1446
• Update black requirement from ~=22.6 to ~=22.8 by @dependabot in #1477
• Update pennylane requirement from ~=0.24.0 to ~=0.25.1 by @dependabot in #1444
• docs: add 1ucian0 as a contributor for infra, code by @allcontributors in #1461
• docs: add Aaron-Robertson as a contributor for ideas, code, doc by @allcontributors in #1464

Full Changelog: v0.17.1...v0.18.0