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title: Qiskit 0.17 release notes
description: Changes made in Qiskit 0.17
source: https://eu-de.quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/api/qiskit/release-notes/0.17
---

# Qiskit 0.17 release notes

## 0.17.0

### Terra 0.12.0

No Change

### Aer 0.4.1

No Change

### Ignis 0.2.0

No Change

### Aqua 0.6.5

No Change

### IBM Q Provider 0.6.0

#### New Features

- There are three new exceptions: `VisualizationError`, `VisualizationValueError`, and `VisualizationTypeError`. These are now used in the visualization modules when an exception is raised.
- You can now set the logging level and specify a log file using the environment variables `QSIKIT_IBMQ_PROVIDER_LOG_LEVEL` and `QISKIT_IBMQ_PROVIDER_LOG_FILE`, respectively. Note that the name of the logger is `qiskit.providers.ibmq`.
- `qiskit.providers.ibmq.job.IBMQJob` now has a new method `scheduling_mode()` that returns the scheduling mode the job is in.
- IQX-related tutorials that used to be in `qiskit-iqx-tutorials` are now in `qiskit-ibmq-provider`.

#### Changed

- `qiskit.providers.ibmq.IBMQBackend.jobs()` now accepts a new boolean parameter `descending`, which can be used to indicate whether the jobs should be returned in descending or ascending order.
- `qiskit.providers.ibmq.managed.IBMQJobManager` now looks at the job limit and waits for old jobs to finish before submitting new ones if the limit has been reached.
- `qiskit.providers.ibmq.IBMQBackend.status()` now raises a `qiskit.providers.ibmq.IBMQBackendApiProtocolError` exception if there was an issue with validating the status.