diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0a0983a..9c8c4a9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     "find-npm-prefix": "^1.0.2",
     "fs-extra": "^8.1.0",
     "glob": "^7.1.6",
-    "matrix-js-sdk": "7.1.0",
+    "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
     "mkdirp": "^1.0.3",
     "needle": "^2.5.0",
     "node-pre-gyp": "^0.15.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index c562b69..fb3e1bf 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2916,10 +2916,9 @@ map-age-cleaner@^0.1.1:
   dependencies:
     p-defer "^1.0.0"
 
-matrix-js-sdk@7.1.0:
+"matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
   version "7.1.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-js-sdk/-/matrix-js-sdk-7.1.0.tgz#b3e3304e890df45c827706831748935168ee839f"
-  integrity sha512-Y+MdOfsVQRGx0KcwSdNtwsFNGWUF7Zi7wPxUSa050J8eBlbkXUNFAyuSWviLJ5pUwzmp9XMEKD9Cdv+tGZG1ww==
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/2a688bdac828dc62916437d83c72cef1e525d5f9"
   dependencies:
     "@babel/runtime" "^7.8.3"
     another-json "^0.2.0"