diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ed7ed248..8ed8f807 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Django-related packages
-Django==4.1.7
+Django==4.2.0
 django-hosts==5.2
 django-ckeditor==6.7.0
 django-cleanup==8.0.0
diff --git a/src/web/settings.py b/src/web/settings.py
index efd32ba7..31460c93 100644
--- a/src/web/settings.py
+++ b/src/web/settings.py
@@ -403,7 +403,11 @@ def generate_all_hosts(subdomains):
 
 # This is based on Django's ManifestStaticFilesStorage, which appends every static file's MD5 hash to its filename,
 # which avoids waiting for browsers' cache to update if a file's contents change
-STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'web.static.ManifestStaticFilesStorage'
+STORAGES = {
+    "staticfiles": {
+        "BACKEND": "web.static.ManifestStaticFilesStorage",
+    },
+}
 # Ignores adding a hash to the files whose paths match these glob patterns:
 # NOTE: Ignored files should be named so that it's obvious that they should be renamed when their contents update,
 #       to avoid being "stuck" in browsers' cache - which is what `ManifestStaticFilesStorage` would have prevented