What's new on Qollab

What shipped, when. Runtime and backend changes, Playground performance, and project tooling.

July 10, 2026Backends

AWS Braket local simulator

The AWS Braket local simulator is selectable as a backend, alongside qiskit-aer.

July 5, 2026Performance

Playground simulation ~2.6x faster

qiskit-aer was being compiled with -Oz. Rebuilding it with -O2 made statevector simulation about 2.67x faster, and Aer's AVX2 kernels now run on wasm through Emscripten's SIMD128 emulation.

June 30, 2026Runtime

Python 3.14 in the browser

The in-browser runtime moved from Pyodide 0.29.4 to 314.0.1: Python 3.14, Emscripten 5.0.3, and the pyemscripten_2026 wheel set.

June 29, 2026Community

Forum and project discussions

The Qollab forum is live, and every project page has a Community tab backed by it.

  • Discourse-backed, with avatars synced from your Qollab profile.
  • Author-deleted posts are hidden from search and excluded from comment counts.
June 22, 2026Profiles

Contributor directory and platform stats

/contributor lists everyone building on Qollab. The homepage carries platform stats and a top-creator leaderboard, and both the gallery and profile pages paginate.

June 9, 2026Runtime

qiskit-aer runs in the browser

qiskit-aer is built as a Pyodide/Emscripten wheel and linked against OpenBLAS, so simulation runs locally with no backend round-trip. High-depth circuits now warn before you run them.

June 6, 2026Backends

IBM simulator backends

IBM simulators are selectable as backends, alongside the Qiskit sampler.

May 13, 2026Editor

Autosave and coauthors

Project content and code autosave as you work. Projects can list coauthors, so multi-builder work credits everyone.

April 26, 2026Editor

Video embeds in project write-ups

Project write-ups support YouTube and self-hosted video embeds.

April 22, 2026Playground

Run without an account

Circuits run without signing in. Sign in when you want to save or publish.

February 22, 2026Hardware

Runs on real quantum hardware

Circuits run on real quantum hardware, not only simulators.

Releases ship every week or two.

Source, issues, and release tags are on GitHub.

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