diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # should match https://pypi.python.org/pypi names. For the full spec or
 # dependency lines, see https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
 confluent-kafka
-msgpack >= 1.0.0
+msgpack >= 1.0.0, != 1.0.1
 tenacity