Final sync to master (#6831)

Final manual sync PR from the `rc` branch to `master`

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doc/releases/changelog-0.40.0.md

@@ -1170,4 +1170,4 @@ Anton Naim Ibrahim,
 Andrija Paurevic,
 Justin Pickering,
 Jay Soni,
-David Wierichs.
+David Wierichs.

pennylane/compiler/compiler.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 from packaging.version import Version
 
-PL_CATALYST_MIN_VERSION = Version("0.9.0")
+PL_CATALYST_MIN_VERSION = Version("0.10.0")
 
 
 class CompileError(Exception):

setup.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     "appdirs",
     "autoray>=0.6.11",
     "cachetools",
-    "pennylane-lightning>=0.39",
+    "pennylane-lightning>=0.40",
     "requests",
     "typing_extensions",
     "packaging",