diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4a9e07d..91043c5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Add here external Python modules dependencies, one per line. Module names
 # 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