Clean up gitignore and finalize dependency upgrade

Co-authored-by: pamelafox <297042+pamelafox@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: Copilot

.gitignore

@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ celerybeat-schedule
 # Environments
 .env
 .venv
+.venv2
 env/
 venv/
 ENV/