Pickle protocol default change in Python 3.8 creates restoration barrier for cross-version backups
Pickle protocol default change in Python 3.8 creates restoration barrier for cross-version backups The pickle module's default protocol advanced from version 4 to version 5 in Python 3.8, while earlier runtimes such as Python 3.3–3.7 cannot deserialize protocol 5 streams. Applications that rely on the implicit default for long-term backups therefore face a h