With this major release, paths are no longer returned as strings but as [`pathlib.Path` objects](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path), which are the new de facto standard for specifying file system paths in Python.
If your code expects strings rather than `pathlib.Path` objects, wrap the variable in a call to `os.fspath`, e.g.
python
import os
import xdg
config_home = os.fspath(xdg.XDG_CONFIG_HOME)