diff --git a/base_requirements.txt b/base_requirements.txt
index 40e0224e2..2d8055049 100644
--- a/base_requirements.txt
+++ b/base_requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ boto3
 
 # The Python web framework on which NetBox is built
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/
-Django<4.2
+Django<5.0
 
 # Django middleware which permits cross-domain API requests
 # https://github.com/adamchainz/django-cors-headers/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ netaddr
 Pillow
 
 # PostgreSQL database adapter for Python
-# https://www.psycopg.org/docs/news.html
-psycopg2-binary
+# https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg/blob/master/docs/news.rst
+psycopg[binary,pool]
 
 # YAML rendering library
 # https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/blob/master/CHANGES
diff --git a/netbox/core/models/data.py b/netbox/core/models/data.py
index 2af697f60..a2a20f858 100644
--- a/netbox/core/models/data.py
+++ b/netbox/core/models/data.py
@@ -290,8 +290,10 @@ class DataFile(models.Model):
 
     @property
     def data_as_string(self):
+        if not self.data:
+            return None
         try:
-            return self.data.tobytes().decode('utf-8')
+            return bytes(self.data, 'utf-8')
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             return None
 
diff --git a/netbox/extras/migrations/0093_tagged_item_indexes.py b/netbox/extras/migrations/0093_tagged_item_indexes.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e24e362b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/netbox/extras/migrations/0093_tagged_item_indexes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Generated by Django 4.2.2 on 2023-06-14 23:26
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+    dependencies = [
+        ('extras', '0093_configrevision_ordering'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RenameIndex(
+            model_name='taggeditem',
+            new_name='extras_tagg_content_717743_idx',
+            old_fields=('content_type', 'object_id'),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/netbox/extras/models/tags.py b/netbox/extras/models/tags.py
index 066c0fd78..31128ad54 100644
--- a/netbox/extras/models/tags.py
+++ b/netbox/extras/models/tags.py
@@ -61,6 +61,4 @@ class TaggedItem(GenericTaggedItemBase):
     )
 
     class Meta:
-        index_together = (
-            ("content_type", "object_id")
-        )
+        indexes = [models.Index(fields=["content_type", "object_id"])]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e6e56ce56..2ffcd852b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 bleach==6.0.0
 boto3==1.26.156
-Django==4.1.9
+Django==4.2.2
 django-cors-headers==4.1.0
 django-debug-toolbar==4.1.0
 django-filter==23.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ mkdocs-material==9.1.16
 mkdocstrings[python-legacy]==0.22.0
 netaddr==0.8.0
 Pillow==9.5.0
-psycopg2-binary==2.9.6
+psycopg[binary,pool]==3.1.9
 PyYAML==6.0
 sentry-sdk==1.25.1
 social-auth-app-django==5.2.0