Question: I am creating a Django website. I was recently adding permissions/search functionality using the allauth package. When I attempt to run the website through docker I receive the error message: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/allauth/account/signals.py", line 5, in user_logged_in = Signal(providing_args=["request", "user"]) TypeError: init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'providing_args' What is causing this error? I know usually a type error is caused by incorrect models.py files but I can't seem to access this file since it is a part of an external package. Urls.py urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), path('accounts/', include('allauth.urls')), path('accounts/', include('accounts.urls')), path('', include('climate.urls')), ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) if settings.DEBUG: import debug_toolbar urlpatterns = [ path('__debug__/', include(debug_toolbar.urls)), ] + urlpatterns  Models.py class Country(models.Model): id = models.UUIDField( primary_key= True, db_index = True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable= False ) name = models.CharField(max_length=50) population = models.IntegerField(default=1) emissions = models.FloatField(default=1) reason = models.CharField(default="", max_length=100) flags = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/', default="") page = models.URLField(max_length=300, default="") def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super(Country, self).save(*args, **kwargs) class Meta: verbose_name_plural = 'countries' indexes = [ models.Index(fields=['id'], name='id_index') ] permissions = { ("special_status", "Can read all countries") } def __str__(self): return self.name def flag(self): return u'<img src="%s" />' % (self.flags.url) def get_absolute_url(self): return reverse('country_detail', args =[str(self.id)]) flag.short_description = 'Flag'  My settings.py that handles allauth. AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.CustomUser' LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'climate:home' ACCOUNT_LOGOUT_REDIRECT = 'climate:home' ACCOUNT_SESSION_REMEMBER = True ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_PASSWORD_ENTER_TWICE = False ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email' ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True ACCOUNT_UNIQUE_EMAIL = True  Full Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 954, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 892, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 115, in inner_run autoreload.raise_last_exception() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 87, in raise_last_exception raise _exception[1] File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 114, in populate app_config.import_models() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 300, in import_models self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/allauth/account/models.py", line 12, in <module> from . import app_settings, signals File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/allauth/account/signals.py", line 5, in <module> user_logged_in = Signal(providing_args=["request", "user"]) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'providing_args' 

Answer: Based on the comments, you're running Django 4.0 with an old version of AllAuth. So you just need to update AllAuth and should be fine.  However, other people who have upgraded AllAuth and are running Django 4.0 but still seeing this error may have custom AllAuth or other signals registered that include the providing_args argument. In this case, you need to search your project for any signals (such as those often overridden in AllAuth: user_logged_in or email_changed) and remove the providing_args=['request', 'user', 'signup'] or other variation from the Signal parenthesis. See below for more information, and an example diff showing how you could move each providing_args argument to a commented line.  Django deprecated the ability to use the providing_args argument to django.dispatch.Signal in Django 3.1. See bullet in the Misc section of the 3.1 release notes. It was removed because this argument doesn't do anything other than act as documentation. If that seems strange, it is because it is strange. Arguments should indicate data getting passed. This is probably why it was deprecated. Django 4.0 went ahead and removed this altogether, making any code that calls Signal() with the providing_args argument now trigger the TypeError you encountered: TypeError: Signal.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'providing_args' AllAuth removed the use of this argument in September of 2020. (See original report on this issue here and the referenced diff) The person asking the question in this thread was running AllAuth 0.42.0 which does not include this change and is thus incompatible with Django 4.0. As of today, the last version of Django AllAuth 0.42.0 is compatible with is Django 3.2.9.