From 19ac94bc526113402574270da7ff5c43a8731d2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pietropaolo Frisoni <pietropaolo.frisoni@xanadu.ai>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:41:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bump minimum Lightning and Catalyst versions (#6813)

Don't merge until Lightning and Catalyst are released.
---
 .github/stable/external.txt    | 4 ++--
 pennylane/compiler/compiler.py | 2 +-
 setup.py                       | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/stable/external.txt b/.github/stable/external.txt
index b8551125568..ca34b05c1ee 100644
--- a/.github/stable/external.txt
+++ b/.github/stable/external.txt
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ packaging==24.1
 pandocfilters==1.5.1
 parso==0.8.4
 pathspec==0.12.1
-PennyLane-Catalyst==0.9.0
-PennyLane_Lightning==0.39.0
+PennyLane-Catalyst==0.10.0
+PennyLane_Lightning==0.40.0
 pexpect==4.9.0
 pillow==10.4.0
 platformdirs==4.2.2
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",