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• What is the current behavior?

Running Django 4.0 server fails after adding/installing graphene-django v.2.15.0 to the project.
"ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding'"

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via
  a github repo, https://repl.it or similar (you can use this template as a starting point: https://repl.it/@jkimbo/Graphene-Django-Example).

• **Steps to reproduce:
  1- mkvirtualenv dj4
  2- pip install django
  3- django-admin startproject core .
  4- python manage.py runserver (Django server is up and running)
  5- pip install graphene-django
  6- python manage.py runserver ( ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)

• What is the expected behavior?

Django server should be up and running. downgrading django to 3.2.9 will make the project works!

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Version: Python 3.8, Django 4.0, graphene-django v.2.15.0
  • Platform: Ubuntu 20.04

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow)

• **Stacktrace
  $ python manage.py runserver
  Watching for file changes with StatReloader
  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 "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
  fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 115, in inner_run
  autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 87, in raise_last_exception
  raise _exception[1]
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 381, in execute
  autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
  fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/init.py", line 24, in setup
  apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate
  app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/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 "", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "", line 848, in exec_module
  File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphene_django/init.py", line 1, in
  from .fields import DjangoConnectionField, DjangoListField
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphene_django/fields.py", line 18, in
  from .utils import maybe_queryset
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphene_django/utils/init.py", line 2, in
  from .utils import (
  File "/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graphene_django/utils/utils.py", line 6, in
  from django.utils.encoding import force_text
  ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/home/fake_user/.virtualenvs/dj4/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)