chore: release selene-core 0.3.0-alpha.1

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0.3.0-alpha.1 (2026-06-12)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• Use struct exports for all plugin types, separate error model and simulator (#169)
• Add handling for an additional gateset (#119)

Features

• Add version attributes (#137) (379ae01)
• Add handling for an additional gateset (#119) (5180b80)
• Add simulate_delay functionality (#139) (cca97fa)
• Add support for object files provided as bytes (#94) (c4cfac6)
• add timing to builtin runtimes and batching options to softrz runtime (#158) (049e123)
• Build improvements (#142) (12f399b)
• Interactive use of Selene from python (#135) (db3028d)
• Make interfaces shared, add ArgReader (#171) (143e742)
• QIR support using QIR-QIS (#114) (70ab294)
• Result stream handling refactor (#93) (607a55e)
• Stim improvements (more ops + state printing) (#115) (867d5e5)
• test on QIS instead of relying on the upper stack (#150) (b80a9c4)
• Traces for analytics (#160) (24b9978)
• Use mingw instead of msvc for windows wheels (#143) (3d91514)
• Use struct exports for all plugin types, separate error model and simulator (#169) (c44a5c9)

Bug Fixes

• add ___barrier to Helios QIS for QIR emulation (#136) (dfbc4c3)
• avoid using qir_major_version string for QIR detection (#123) (deaa0dc)
• classify lowered qir-qis bitcode as helios (#157) (67fca60)
• make qir-qis optional and stabilize CI (#164) (e52c0b2)

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• selene-core-v0.3.0-alpha.1

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Pull request overview

This PR is a Release Please–generated release bump for selene-core to 0.3.0-alpha.1, updating package metadata, lockfiles, and the changelog to reflect the new prerelease.

Changes:

• Bump selene-core version to 0.3.0-alpha.1 across Rust and Python package metadata.
• Update Cargo lockfiles for the workspace, examples, and ArgReader utility to reference the new selene-core version.
• Append the 0.3.0-alpha.1 release notes to selene-core/CHANGELOG.md and update .release-please-manifest.json.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 10 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
uv.lock	Updates locked editable selene-core version (currently uses a SemVer-style prerelease string).
selene-ext/utilities/argreader/Cargo.lock	Bumps the locked selene-core crate version used by ArgReader.
selene-core/pyproject.toml	Updates Python package version for selene-core (currently uses a SemVer-style prerelease string).
selene-core/examples/simulator/Cargo.lock	Bumps selene-core version in simulator example lockfile.
selene-core/examples/runtime/Cargo.lock	Bumps selene-core version in runtime example lockfile.
selene-core/examples/error_model/Cargo.lock	Bumps selene-core version in error-model example lockfile.
selene-core/CHANGELOG.md	Adds the 0.3.0-alpha.1 release notes section.
selene-core/Cargo.toml	Bumps selene-core crate version to 0.3.0-alpha.1.
Cargo.lock	Bumps the workspace-locked selene-core crate version.
.release-please-manifest.json	Updates the Release Please manifest for selene-core to 0.3.0-alpha.1.

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