From 5ffa68160362b9e23252e37394a6cf5603d87100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shuli Shu <08cnbj@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:46:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RC PR creation

---
 .github/CHANGELOG.md                 | 14 +++++++-------
 pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py |  2 +-
 requirements-dev.txt                 |  2 +-
 requirements-tests.txt               |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/CHANGELOG.md b/.github/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d01e6b682..bfb8d3bdbc 100644
--- a/.github/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/.github/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Release 0.40.0-dev
+# Release 0.40.0
 
 ### New features since last release
 
@@ -29,15 +29,15 @@
 
 ### Improvements
 
-* Add CUDA dependencies to Lightning GPU and Lightning Tensor Python wheels.
-  [(#1025)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1025/)
-
 * Replace the `dummy_tensor_update` method with the `cutensornetStateCaptureMPS`API to ensure that further gates apply is allowed after the `cutensornetStateCompute` call.
   [(#1028)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1028/)
 
 * Add unit test for measurement with shots for Lightning Tensor with `tn` method.
   [(#1027)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1027)
 
+* Add CUDA dependencies to Lightning GPU and Lightning Tensor Python wheels.
+  [(#1025)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1025/)
+
 * Update the python layer UI of Lightning Tensor.
   [(#1022)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1022/)
 
@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@
 * Update CUDA version to 12.4 for GPU tests on CI.
   [(#1023)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1023)
 
-* Fix Lightning Kokkos `[[maybe_unused]]` and `exp2` errors with hipcc.
-  [(#1018)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1018)
-
 * Pin `jax[cpu]==0.4.28` for compatibility with PennyLane and Catalyst.
   [(#1019)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1019)
 
+* Fix Lightning Kokkos `[[maybe_unused]]` and `exp2` errors with hipcc.
+  [(#1018)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1018)
+
 * Fix Lightning Kokkos editable mode path.
   [(#1010)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning/pull/1010)
 
diff --git a/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py b/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
index df42670b02..9b9e9b997d 100644
--- a/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.40.0-dev43"
+__version__ = "0.40.0-rc0"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 536b6f96be..0cc443dc09 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ custatevec-cu12; sys_platform == "linux"
 cutensornet-cu12; sys_platform == "linux"
 pylint==2.7.4
 scipy-openblas32>=0.3.26
-git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@master
+git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@v0.40.0-rc0
diff --git a/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements-tests.txt
index 4643390dfd..ba6e723b8e 100644
--- a/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ pytest-cov>=3.0.0
 pytest-mock>=3.7.0
 pytest-xdist>=2.5.0
 flaky>=3.7.0
-git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@master
+git+https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane.git@v0.40.0-rc0