Abe Coull

**Describe the bug** Braket SDK requires amazon-braket-schemas-python >= 1.10.0. A change in [amazon-braket-schemas](https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-schemas-python) breaks customers attempting to call `AwsDevice.get_devices()` for versions before 1.10.0. **To fix** Locally: `pip install --upgrade amazon-braket-schemas`...

*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* This changes add in the [zstd](https://github.com/facebook/zstd) package, a common compression package, to the 5.0 image. This can also be considered for other images....

This changes the organization from `aws` to `amazon-braket`. The link does redirect but correcting in the documentation.

perf: use dicts instead of ordered dicts

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* As of [Python 3.7](https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/151283.html), `dict`s are now ordered. This removes the need for another import. *Testing done:* ``` import timeit print(timeit.timeit("from collections import...

fix: stop generating a QubitSet for each call of qubit_count and qubits

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* Reduce overhead of creating new qubit sets each time we call qubits or qubit_set *Testing done:* ## Merge Checklist _Put an `x` in...

infra: add opts for tox builds ran in parallel

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* *Testing done:* Output still shows for all parallel envs ran. `tox -p auto` ## Merge Checklist _Put an `x` in the boxes that...

doc: add dual navigation buttons and cleanup some docstrings

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* *Testing done:* ## Merge Checklist _Put an `x` in the boxes that apply. You can also fill these out after creating the PR....

infra: limit installs for dependent-tests.yml

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* *Testing done:* Tests go from an execution of 7-10 mins down to 4.5 minutes. https://github.com/amazon-braket/amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-python/pull/219 - The Pennylane Plugin will now install the...

feat: add gate class docs to the subroutines in circuits

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infra: add ossf scorecard workflow and badge

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*Issue #, if available:* *Description of changes:* Add in a scorecard to be more transparent around project standards and best practices. From https://github.com/ossf/scorecard. This will give better goal setting around...