chore: prepare 4.22.0rc1 release

[erichulburd]

Description

Release 4.22.0rc1.

Checklist

• The PR targets the master branch
• The above description motivates these changes.
• The change is atomic and can be described by a single commit (your PR will be squashed on merge).
• All changes to code are covered via unit tests.
• Parameters and return values have type hints with PEP 484 syntax.
• Functions and classes have useful Sphinx-style docstrings.
• Live QPU tests have run via pytest test --live-qpu-access by myself or a reviewer.
• (New Feature) The docs have been updated accordingly.
• (User-visible change) A bullet has been added under "Unreleased" in the changelog.
• (Bugfix) The associated issue is referenced above using auto-close keywords.
• (Release) Version bump and changelog updated according to CONTRIBUTING.md.
• (Release) There are no references to PENDING_DEPRECATION_RELEASE in deprecation warnings (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

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Lines	Covered	Coverage	Threshold	Status
10396	9342	90%	87%	🟢

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Bencher Report

Project	pyquil
Branch	4_22_0_rc_1
Testbed	ci-runner-linux

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Benchmark	Latency	milliseconds (ms)
test/benchmarks/test_program.py::test_copy_everything_except_instructions	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	9,557.70 ms
test/benchmarks/test_program.py::test_instructions	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	3,347.79 ms
test/benchmarks/test_program.py::test_iteration	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	3,227.19 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_density_matrix_compile_depth[20L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	226.82 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_density_matrix_compile_depth[40L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	263.20 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_density_matrix_compile_depth[5L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	219.99 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_state_vector_compile_depth[10L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	206.36 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_state_vector_compile_depth[40L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	202.98 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestJitCompileTime::test_state_vector_compile_depth[80L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	234.75 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_17q_batch_size[b16]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	138,266.88 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_17q_batch_size[b64]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	123,469.82 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_17q_batch_size[b8]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	154,230.45 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_batch_size[b16]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	43,208.42 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_batch_size[b64]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	28,636.11 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_batch_size[b8]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	63,335.05 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_depth[10L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	34,171.24 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_depth[1L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	13,884.26 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_depth[20L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	54,951.20 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_depth[3L]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	17,882.76 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_qubits[12q]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	11,033.46 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_qubits[15q]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	34,170.11 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_qubits[3q]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	3,454.24 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_qubits[6q]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	4,966.33 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_qubits[9q]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	6,540.59 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_subsystem_size[s0]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	93,089.87 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_scaling_subsystem_size[s1]	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	32,349.34 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	79,710.33 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise_low_trajectory	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	5,061.75 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise_measurements_only_micro	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	2,233.03 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise_micro	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	4,306.39 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise_micro_jit	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	60.79 ms
test/benchmarks/test_simulators.py::TestPerformance::test_surface17_depth5_cycle_noise_no_measurements_micro	📈 view plot ⚠️ NO THRESHOLD	2,794.57 ms

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