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From: Pietropaolo Frisoni <pietropaolo.frisoni@xanadu.ai>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:41:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 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 | 2 +-
 pennylane/compiler/compiler.py   | 2 +-
 setup.py                         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/releases/changelog-0.40.0.md b/doc/releases/changelog-0.40.0.md
index 39e5b6ecc92..bb9cb7cd3bc 100644
--- a/doc/releases/changelog-0.40.0.md
+++ b/doc/releases/changelog-0.40.0.md
@@ -1170,4 +1170,4 @@ Anton Naim Ibrahim,
 Andrija Paurevic,
 Justin Pickering,
 Jay Soni,
-David Wierichs.
+David Wierichs.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pennylane/compiler/compiler.py b/pennylane/compiler/compiler.py
index cbb38243d83..6c38bb3d203 100644
--- a/pennylane/compiler/compiler.py
+++ b/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):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a6ce2fb7a08..47d6484df65 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     "appdirs",
     "autoray>=0.6.11",
     "cachetools",
-    "pennylane-lightning>=0.39",
+    "pennylane-lightning>=0.40",
     "requests",
     "typing_extensions",
     "packaging",