Thomas R. Bromley

@soranjh, would you mind adding an entry to the changelog?

Closing as this is no longer required.

@albi3ro, what is the status of this PR? The story in Shortcut is in the 0.36 backlog epic.

Nice! Is there more to do here (aside from resolving merge conflicts)? Can we open it up for review?

And this PR isn't replaced by https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane/pull/5701?

@albi3ro do we still need this PR?

I'm curious if anyone remembers some more context around this issue? E.g., did we ever have a minimum reproducible example of the problem?

@mudit2812 do you have a sentence or two summary of what's happening here?

> This change is breaking some tests, which will have to be updated before the change can be merged. Thanks! To be on the same page - we decided to...

Thanks @cvjjm! This has always been a tricky one to manage during release, because we have `pennylane` and `pennylane-lightning` being co-dependent. We're discussing how to better manage this, but for...