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All notable changes to kino_qx will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and the project follows Semantic Versioning.

Every breaking change to the portal API contract is a minor bump on this package until v1.0.

Unreleased

[0.3.0] - 2026-05-17

Changed

  • Kino.Qx.CredentialsCell now reevaluates on change and rebinds qx automatically. The cell is registered with reevaluate_on_change: true, so changing any persisted field (portal URL, region, backend, optimization level, shots) re-runs the cell and rebinds the notebook qx binding. Previously, picking a backend after Connect updated the generated code text but did not rebind qx until the user manually re-ran the cell — a downstream Kino.Qx.run!/2 would use a stale config. Visible behaviour change: editing a field now auto-re-runs the cell (on blur/commit, not per keystroke).
  • The Smart Cell is now a guided 3-step sequence — (1) Livebook secrets, (2) Portal & region + Connect, (3) Job defaults. Step 3 is locked until Connect succeeds and shows a "pick a backend to finish" affordance until a backend is chosen. Pushed events, the __remembered__ saved-backend handling, and the privacy invariant (tokens never in cell state / .livemd) are unchanged.

Fixed

  • An unconfigured cell no longer silently emits a broken config. With no backend chosen, to_source/1 previously emitted %Qx.Hardware.Config{… backend: "" …}, which failed downstream with no actionable message. It now emits a raise with a clear instruction ("select a backend …"). Combined with reevaluate_on_change, picking a backend flips the cell from this guard to a valid qx automatically.

Security

  • to_source/1 re-validates optimization_level/shots before emitting them. A shared .livemd is plain text; a hand-crafted non-integer value would previously be interpolated verbatim into the generated cell source (which, with reevaluate_on_change, now auto-evaluates). Both fields are now routed through the existing validators with a safe fallback to the documented defaults, and the integer parsers reject trailing garbage.

0.2.0 - 2026-05-16

Breaking architectural reset. A previously-drafted 0.2.0 design (all-in-one TranspileCell with embedded QASM + Submit button) never reached Hex. This release replaces it with a credentials Smart Cell + a Kino.Qx.run!/2 pipeline function. The transpile / submit / poll / result-build core moved upstream into Qx.Hardware in the :qx library (0.7.0); kino_qx is now a thin UX layer.

Added

  • Kino.Qx.CredentialsCell — new Smart Cell registered as "Qx Credentials". Collects portal URL, region, backend, optimization level, and shots; emits a qx = %Qx.Hardware.Config{...} binding for downstream cells. Tokens come from Livebook secrets (LB_PORTAL_TOKEN, LB_IBM_API_KEY, LB_IBM_CRN) — never asked for in the cell UI, never present in cell state, never written to the .livemd.
  • Kino.Qx.run/2,3 and Kino.Qx.run!/2,3 — pipeline functions that wrap Qx.Hardware.run/3 with a live Kino.Frame status panel (✔ / ⏳ icons, queue position, elapsed seconds) and a best-effort cancel watcher. The watcher is an unlinked process that monitors the caller; if Livebook's "Stop" button fires during a run, the watcher calls Qx.Hardware.cancel/3 for the in-flight IBM job.
  • Kino.Qx.RunError — raised by run!/2,3 when Qx.Hardware.run/3 returns {:error, _}. Carries the original reason; Exception.message/1 describes it humanly.
  • Kino.Qx.Interrupted — exception type for caller interruption during a run; includes the job_id when known. (Wired to actually raise in Unreleased — see above.)
  • Required dep on {:qx, "~> 0.7"} (resolves to qx_sim 0.7.1, which carries the Qx.Hardware.connect/2 discovery fix + Config Inspect secret redaction this cell depends on).

Changed

  • Interrupt contract is now real. On Livebook's trappable "Stop" (:shutdown), Kino.Qx.run/2,3 / run!/2,3 now traps the exit, runs the in-flight Qx.Hardware.cancel/3 exactly once, and raises Kino.Qx.Interrupted (with the last-seen job_id). Previously the exception type existed but was never raised — the caller just died and only the watcher cancelled. The unlinked watcher is retained solely as the :kill (untrappable) safety net.

Removed (BREAKING)

Privacy invariant

  • Tokens are not held in cell state. to_source/1 emits System.fetch_env!("LB_PORTAL_TOKEN") (and equivalents) as references, never string literals. The .livemd carries no secret bytes.

Security

  • Qx.Hardware.Config (which holds the portal token, IBM API key, IBM CRN, and IAM access token) is no longer reachable by inspect/1 in any error/status path. A new Kino.Qx.SafeReason redacts an embedded %Config{} at any common nesting depth and collapses unknown reasons to a fixed string instead of inspecting them. The cancel watcher's Qx.Hardware.cancel/3 is wrapped so a raised error can no longer crash-dump the closure env (tokens) to the Livebook log. The upstream root-cause fix — @derive Inspect on Qx.Hardware.Config — shipped in qx_sim 0.7.1.

Notes

  • kino dependency stays at ~> 0.19 (latest on Hex; no Smart Cell API churn since 0.1.0).
  • Non-Livebook callers (CLI / Phoenix / OTP) can use Qx.Hardware.run/3 directly from :qx with no :kino dep.

[0.2.0-pre] (unpublished — superseded)

Added

  • Kino.Qx.TranspileCell — second Smart Cell registered as "Qx Transpile + Submit". Takes an OpenQASM 3.0 circuit, asks the Qx Portal to transpile it for a chosen IBM Quantum backend, then submits the transpiled circuit to IBM Quantum directly and renders the result counts inline as a Kino.DataTable (with optional Kino.VegaLite histogram if available).
  • Kino.Qx.IbmClient — Req-based wrapper for IBM Cloud IAM + the Qiskit Runtime REST API. Covers iam_exchange/1, list_backends/1, fetch_backend_properties/2, submit_sampler/4 (3-element PUB [qasm, nil, shots], no session), poll_job/2 (Pascal-Case status enum: "Queued", "Running", "Completed", "Cancelled", "Cancelled - Ran too long", "Failed"), fetch_results/2, cancel_job/2 (POST /jobs/:id/cancel). 401-refresh-retry-once via with_iam_refresh/2. Sampler primitive only (Estimator deferred). Wire format verified against qx_server (production-proven against real IBM hardware) and IBM's published spec.
  • Kino.Qx.Client.transpile/2 — POST /api/v1/transpile with the qxportal contract. Maps 422 → :invalid_qasm, 502 → :transpile_failed, 503 → :transpile_unavailable, 504 → :transpile_timeout. Adds :qasm, :metadata, :depth, :size, :num_qubits to the response-key allowlist.
  • Kino.Qx.TranspilePipeline — testable orchestrator (no Kino runtime needed). Sequences IAM auth → backend properties → portal transpile → submit → poll-with-backoff (1s/2s/4s capped at 30s, hard timeout 24h configurable) → fetch results. Emits {:ibm, :job_started, job_id} so the cell can track the job for cancel. on_status callback for live UI updates. Errors normalised to {:error, stage, reason} for stage-routed messaging.
  • Live integration tests tagged :ibm_live and :portal_live, excluded from default mix test. Run locally before each Hex publish.
  • SSRF defence on portal_base_url: persisted URLs validated against an allowlist (*.qxquantum.com over https; localhost/127.0.0.1 over http for dev). Blocks malicious shared-notebook URL redirection.
  • Error UI uses a redact_reason/1 collapser so HTTP 4xx bodies (which can echo the IAM apikey) never reach the cell error panel.

Privacy invariant

  • Three independent secrets (qxportal token, IBM API key, IBM Service-CRN) live ONLY in transient cell state. None are written to to_attrs/1. Notebook circuits (qasm_paste) are persisted only when the user opts in via a "save with notebook" checkbox (default OFF).

Notes

  • kino dependency stays at ~> 0.19 (latest on Hex; no Smart Cell API churn since 0.1.0).

0.1.0 - 2026-05-03

Added

  • First Hex.pm release.
  • Project scaffold (Apache-2.0).
  • Kino.Qx.Client — Req-based wrapper around portal /api/v1 endpoints (me/1, list_snippets/1, get_snippet/2). Maps 401/404/429 to :unauthorized, :not_found, {:rate_limited, retry_after}; network errors to {:network, reason}. JSON keys converted to atoms via an allow-list (no atom exhaustion).
  • Kino.Qx.SmartCell — Livebook Smart Cell registered as "Qx Snippet". Inline JS + CSS (no external bundler). Token textbox, portal URL textbox, Connect button, snippet dropdown, source-kind toggle. Security invariant: to_attrs/1 excludes the token AND identity; only the persistable subset (base_url, snippet_name, source_kind, source, selected_id) is written to the .livemd file. Tested.
  • Kino.Qx.Application — registers the Smart Cell on app start.
  • Initial decisions captured in iter-4 plan of the portal repo:
    • Package name kino_qx (livebook-dev convention).
    • Module: Kino.Qx. Smart cell: Kino.Qx.SmartCell.
    • Pinned {:kino, "~> 0.19"}, {:req, "~> 0.5"}, {:jason, "~> 1.4"}.
    • Default portal URL https://qxportal.dev.
    • Minimum Elixir ~> 1.17.