diff --git a/requirements/base-requirements.in b/requirements/base-requirements.in
index 057ea1a4f3c7..2961597558a1 100644
--- a/requirements/base-requirements.in
+++ b/requirements/base-requirements.in
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ django-tastypie
 django-transfer
 django-two-factor-auth
 django-user-agents
-django-websocket-redis
+django-websocket-redis @ git+https://github.com/jrief/django-websocket-redis
 django>=2.2.27,<4.0  # we are not ready to move to django 3.0
 djangorestframework
 dnspython