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Zulip's previous model for managing static asset files via Django pipeline had some broken behavior around upgrades. In particular, it was for some reason storing the information as to which static files should be used in a memcached cache that was shared between different deployments of Zulip. This means that during the upgrade process, some clients might be served a version of the static assets that does not correspond to the server they were connected to. We've replaced that model with using ManifestStaticFilesStorage, which instead allows each Zulip deployment directory to have its own complete copy of the mapping of files to static assets, as it should be. We have to do a little bit of hackery with the staticfiles.json path to make this work, basically because Django expects staticfiles.json to be under STATIC_ROOT (aka the path nginx is serving to users), but doing that doesn't really make sense for Zulip, since that directory is shared between different deployments.