Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into mv/unbind-callback

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/protocol.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/protocol.py

index 7763ffb2d0..56a5c21910 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/protocol.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/protocol.py
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ class BaseReplicationStreamProtocol(LineOnlyReceiver):
             self._parse_and_dispatch_line(line)
 
     def _parse_and_dispatch_line(self, line: bytes) -> None:
-        if line.strip() == "":
+        if line.strip() == b"":
             # Ignore blank lines
             return