[Snyk] Security upgrade django from 1.2 to 4.2.26

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Snyk has created this PR to fix 2 vulnerabilities in the pip dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• requirements.txt

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Upgrading to Django 4 breaks Python 2 environment

Bumping django to 4.2.26 assumes a Python ≥3.8 runtime, while the project still targets the legacy App Engine Python runtime (app.yaml declares runtime: python and the surrounding pinned packages are Python‑2–only). On the existing Python 2 dev/CI setup pip install -r requirements.txt will now fail with “Django 4.2 requires Python >=3.8”, preventing the application from installing dependencies or running. Unless the entire stack is ported to Python 3 alongside this change, this upgrade is a build‑blocking regression.

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