[BUG] Django 4.0 removed django.utils.encoding.smart_text

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Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Does this issue exist in the latest version?

• I'm using the latest release

Describe the bug?

Failure to load in a Django 4.x project due to the deprecated (and now-removed) smart_text alias in django.utils.encoding.

ImportError: cannot import name 'smart_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)

To Reproduce

1. pip install django-views-breadcrumbs
2. Add views_breadcrumbs to settings.py
3. python manage.py runserver

What OS are you seeing the problem on?

ubuntu-latest or ubuntu-20.04

Expected behavior?

I would expect the app to not crash

Relevant log output

Exception in thread django-main-thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 870, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 115, in inner_run
    autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 87, in raise_last_exception
    raise _exception[1]
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute
    autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 223, in create
    import_module(entry)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 848, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/view_breadcrumbs/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .generic import (
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/view_breadcrumbs/generic/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .base import BaseBreadcrumbMixin  # noqa
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/view_breadcrumbs/generic/base.py", line 14, in <module>
    from ..templatetags.view_breadcrumbs import (
  File "/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/view_breadcrumbs/templatetags/view_breadcrumbs.py", line 18, in <module>
    from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
ImportError: cannot import name 'smart_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/--redacted--/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)

Anything else?

Per Django 3.x release notes (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/3.0/#deprecated-features-3-0):

Features deprecated in 3.0¶
django.utils.encoding.force_text() and smart_text()¶
The smart_text() and force_text() aliases (since Django 2.0) of smart_str() and force_str() are deprecated. Ignore this deprecation if your code supports Python 2 as the behavior of smart_str() and force_str() is different there.

Per the Django 4.x release notes (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/4.0/#features-removed-in-4-0):

django.utils.encoding.force_text() and smart_text() are removed.

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[jackton1]

@darkpixel Sorry for the delay but this should be resolved in the latest version v2.2.5

[darkpixel]

"5 minutes ago"? Well that was quick. ;) Thanks!

I'll check in a few minutes and see if it's pip-installable.

[jackton1]

Yep already made the changes but just created a new tag and deployed it to PyPI

[darkpixel]

Already running it over here. I appreciate it @jackton1 !

[jackton1]

No worries