# \[ANN\] Yao v0.6: High Performance Differentiable Programming on Quantum Circuits

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**Created:** [December 29, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-yao-v0-6-high-performance-differentiable-programming-on-quantum-circuits/32771 "2019-12-29T00:24:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roger-luo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roger-luo/32/3399_2.png) [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-yao-v0-6-high-performance-differentiable-programming-on-quantum-circuits/32771/1 "2019-12-29T00:24:22Z")

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I’m happy to announce our major release v0.6 of Yao by the new year. This new version starts to support **automatic differentiation** and **symbolic computation**. and we have a new website now: [http://yaoquantum.org/](http://yaoquantum.org/) and a paper! check our preprint: [[1912.10877] Yao.jl: Extensible, Efficient Framework for Quantum Algorithm Design](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10877) and blog post: [Yao.jl - Differentiable Quantum Programming In Julia](https://julialang.org/blog/2019/12/yao-differentiable-quantum-programming)

A new benchmark reviewed by major authors of other packages in other languages is also available. We show Yao achieve state-of-the-art performance even comparing to manual tuned C++ implementation.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/3/736a89b77bc7afb8b9ef74bbfbe67e164790843d.png)

you can check more detailed benchmark here: [GitHub - yardstiq/quantum-benchmarks: benchmarking quantum circuit emulators for your daily research usage](https://github.com/Roger-luo/quantum-benchmarks)

For more detailed updates, please check our [release notes](https://github.com/QuantumBFS/Yao.jl/blob/v0.6.1/NEWS.md)