v5.4.0rc2

The requests package is no longer limited to <2.32.0 per #2041.
Contribution #2007 by @awmackowiak was confirmed to have solved the Redis reconnection bug.

What's Changed

• Bump mypy from 1.10.0 to 1.10.1 by @dependabot in #2039
• Fix typo in README.rst by @sylvain1811 in #2036
• Reverted limiting requests<2.32.0 in requirements/default.txt but kept in tox.ini due to docker-py issue 3256 by @Nusnus in #2041
• Redis transport - Redelivered messages should respect the original priority by @zemek in #2026
• Exclude Unit 3.9 from CI by @Nusnus in #2046
• Fixed CI error from excluding Python 3.9 unit tests by @Nusnus in #2047
• Fixed flaky integration test: test_publish_requeue_consume() by @Nusnus in #2048
• Bump pymongo from 4.7.3 to 4.8.0 by @dependabot in #2044
• fix: don't crash on properties.body_encoding: utf-8 by @pankgeorg in #1690
• chore: handle kafka transport with confluentkafka ✨ by @meysam81 in #1574
• Revert "Exclude Unit 3.9 from CI #2046" by @Nusnus in #2054
• fix azure service bus isinstance checks when None by @jasonwbarnett in #2053
• Added Changelog for v5.4.0rc2 by @Nusnus in #2056

New Contributors

• @sylvain1811 made their first contribution in #2036
• @zemek made their first contribution in #2026
• @pankgeorg made their first contribution in #1690

Full Changelog: v5.4.0rc1...v5.4.0rc2