diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room_list.py b/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
index 38e1737ec9..dc88620885 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room_list.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
import logging
from collections import namedtuple
-from six import iteritems
+from six import PY3, iteritems
from six.moves import range
import msgpack
@@ -444,9 +444,16 @@ class RoomListNextBatch(namedtuple("RoomListNextBatch", (
@classmethod
def from_token(cls, token):
+ if PY3:
+ # The argument raw=False is only available on new versions of
+ # msgpack, and only really needed on Python 3. Gate it behind
+ # a PY3 check to avoid causing issues on Debian-packaged versions.
+ decoded = msgpack.loads(decode_base64(token), raw=False)
+ else:
+ decoded = msgpack.loads(decode_base64(token))
return RoomListNextBatch(**{
cls.REVERSE_KEY_DICT[key]: val
- for key, val in msgpack.loads(decode_base64(token)).items()
+ for key, val in decoded.items()
})
def to_token(self):
diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index 2947f37f1a..f51184b50d 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS = {
"sortedcontainers>=1.4.4": ["sortedcontainers"],
"pysaml2>=3.0.0": ["saml2"],
"pymacaroons-pynacl>=0.9.3": ["pymacaroons"],
- "msgpack-python>=0.3.0": ["msgpack"],
+ "msgpack-python>=0.4.2": ["msgpack"],
"phonenumbers>=8.2.0": ["phonenumbers"],
"six>=1.10": ["six"],
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