[deps] Update channels requirement from ~=3.0.2 to ~=4.2.0

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Updates the requirements on channels to permit the latest version.

Changelog

Sourced from channels's changelog.

4.2.0 (2024-11-15)

Channels 4.2 introduces a couple of major but backwards-compatible changes, including most notably enhanced async suppport and fixing a long-standing bug where tests would try and close db connections and erroneously fail.

There are a number of other small bugfixes. Please ensure to review the Version 4.2.0 release notes <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/4.2.0.html>_ for full details.

4.1.0 (2024-04-03)

Channels 4.1 is maintenance release in the 4.x series.

The main change is an update in the required Python and Django version. Python 3.8, and Django 4.2 are now the minimum required versions.

There are a number of other small bugfixes. Please ensure to review the Version 4.1.0 release notes <https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/4.1.0.html>_ for full details.

4.0.0 (2022-10-15)

Channels 4 is the next major version of the Channels package. Together with the matching Daphne v4 and channels-redis v4 releases, it updates dependencies, fixes issues, and removes outdated code. It so provides the foundation for Channels development going forward.

In most cases, you can update now by updating channels, daphne, and channels-redis as appropriate, with pip, and by adding daphne at the top of your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

First pip::

pip install -U 'channels[daphne]' channels-redis

Then in your Django settings file::

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "daphne",
    ...
]

Again, this is a major version change. Amongst other changes, large amounts of

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Commits

• 5bb4151 Set release date for 4.2.0.
• 34fc8e5 Preparing v4.2 release. (#2111)
• d384355 Added function prototype for BaseChannelLayer (#2112)
• 52b4470 Fixed connect example in auth docs.
• 643d083 Ensure text message exists before handling on WebsocketConsumer (#2097)
• 3ea0817 Fix databases docs (#2113)
• e533186 InMemoryChannelLayer improvements, test fixes (#1976)
• e39fe13 Use the async sessions api if it exists (#2092)
• 8d90b07 Improve async Django support and improve docs (#2090)
• aa91c28 Don't actually close DB connections during tests (#2101)
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