We’re excited to announce that the PennyLane v0.17 release has been published! 
Among the many new features are circuit optimization, faster and more intuitive VQE simulations, a new Device Resource Tracker and improvements to many existing features! 
You can learn about the list of new features and updates of the v0.17 release by reading our blog post, or by going through the release notes .
As always, this release would not have been possible without all the help from our contributors:
Juan Miguel Arrazola, Olivia Di Matteo, Anthony Hayes, Theodor Isacsson, Josh Izaac, Soran Jahangiri, Nathan Killoran, Arshpreet Singh Khangura, Leonhard Kunczik, Christina Lee, Romain Moyard, Lee James O’Riordan, Ashish Panigrahi, Nahum Sá, Maria Schuld, Jay Soni, Antal Száva, David Wierichs.