Redis cache in Django 5.0

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Hi all!
I am writing to ask for your help.

I’m using Django 5.0. I created a model that should clear the cache after saving the instance. I’m using Redis cache.
Trying to clear the cache cache.clear() results in an error:

AbstractConnection.init() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘CLIENT_CLASS’.

The error stops occurring if you comment out the CLIENT_CLASS parameter in the settings

CACHES = {
     "default": {
         "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache",
         "LOCATION": "redis://localhost:6379",
         # "OPTIONS": {
         # "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
         # }
     }

It seems to me that the error occurs because the CLIENT_CLASS parameter is not fully implemented and may cause errors in some cases.

Give advice on how to test this hypothesis, and is there a method to correct the error?

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The docs mention that to use django-redis, you need to use the django_redis backend, not the Django core backend. See the section “Configure as cache backend” at django-redis · PyPI