Bump version to 0.17.1 (Qiskit#2345)

* Bump version to 0.17.1

* conf.py update

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Co-authored-by: Jake Lishman <jake.lishman@ibm.com>

Version update 0.17.0 (Qiskit#2332)

* Version update

* Switch to 0.17

Rust fix and more obsolete code fixes (Qiskit#2325)

* Revert "Backend-related deprecations (Qiskit#2322)"

This reverts commit 37718fa.

* Reapply "Backend-related deprecations (Qiskit#2322)"

This reverts commit ce4cbf9.

* Attempt to explicitly install the missing library

* fix typo

* version update

* Remove BackendPropertyError

* Removing useless imports

* small fix

Revert cibuildwheel to 2.19.2 (Qiskit#2324)

* Revert cibuildwheel to 2.19.2

* Attempt to limit rust version instead of cibuildwheel version

* Attempt to remove rust installation from cibuildwheel

Backend-related deprecations (Qiskit#2322)

* Backend-related deprecations

* linting

* Undo the deprecation of `from_backend_properties`

Version update to 0.16.1 (Qiskit#2313)

* Version update to 0.16.1

* Update version in conf as well

Adds unique name for upload-artifact jobs (Qiskit#2285)

* Adds unique name for upload-artifact jobs

* Attempt to install openblas in the neko run

* deploy names update and neko fix

* blas and lapack fix in the tutorials job as well

* Move the blas install earlier

* Bump all upload-artifact to v4 and distinguish between "shared" and "separete" uploads

Fix for save_expval truncation (Qiskit#2265)

* Fix for save_expval truncation

* Fixed a bug in pauli truncation and add relevant test

* limit cuQuantum version

* fix setup.py

* add release note

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Co-authored-by: U-AzureAD\JUNDOI <doichan@jp.ibm.com>

Release 0.15.1 (Qiskit#2225)

* Add `open_pulse` entry to `AerBackendConfiguration` (Qiskit#2214)

* add open_pulse entry to AerBackendConfiguration

* add test

* Fix tests Aer 0.15 in the latest environments (Qiskit#2223)

* qiskit 1.0.0rc1 -> 1.3.0b1

* test

* test

* fix tutorial

* add release note

* change version number

* Revert NoiseModel.from_dict (Qiskit#2222)

* Truncate save_expval (Qiskit#2216)

* truncate save_expval

* fix truncation

* fix truncation

* add num_original_qubits to aer_circuit to get num_qubits without ancilla qubits

* Fix adding qubitset

* add test case, release note and fix docs

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* fix doc

* change truncation strategy

* format

* remove print

* no truncation when circuit is empty

* Update VERSION.txt

revert to 0.15.0

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Co-authored-by: Hiroshi Horii <hhorii@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Takashi Imamichi <31178928+t-imamichi@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hiroshi Horii <hhorii@users.noreply.github.com>

Release 0.15 (Qiskit#2204)

* Release 0.15

* add deprecation warnings to V1 primitives

* lint