diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6338e3a55c..9d2f9e8539 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         "jsrsasign": "^11.0.0",
         "katex": "^0.16.0",
         "lodash": "^4.17.21",
-        "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
+        "matrix-js-sdk": "34.4.0-rc.0",
         "matrix-react-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#develop",
         "matrix-widget-api": "^1.8.2",
         "react": "17.0.2",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index f6cf4b2765..09ece7bebe 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8127,6 +8127,27 @@ matrix-events-sdk@0.0.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-events-sdk/-/matrix-events-sdk-0.0.1.tgz#c8c38911e2cb29023b0bbac8d6f32e0de2c957dd"
   integrity sha512-1QEOsXO+bhyCroIe2/A5OwaxHvBm7EsSQ46DEDn8RBIfQwN5HWBpFvyWWR4QY0KHPPnnJdI99wgRiAl7Ad5qaA==
 
+matrix-js-sdk@34.4.0-rc.0:
+  version "34.4.0-rc.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-js-sdk/-/matrix-js-sdk-34.4.0-rc.0.tgz#84534b3ab0aece184534f964fde76e6c31bc5d54"
+  integrity sha512-m6IYqnmLVie9qm43Syf4jM6y7zkCj6NpPo3gQnx+/mKFXsiDDYJ8HlQOaWebW2LaMk+dUbbu/zZLWD3C+byH+Q==
+  dependencies:
+    "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
+    "@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm" "^7.0.0"
+    "@matrix-org/olm" "3.2.15"
+    another-json "^0.2.0"
+    bs58 "^6.0.0"
+    content-type "^1.0.4"
+    jwt-decode "^4.0.0"
+    loglevel "^1.7.1"
+    matrix-events-sdk "0.0.1"
+    matrix-widget-api "^1.8.2"
+    oidc-client-ts "^3.0.1"
+    p-retry "4"
+    sdp-transform "^2.14.1"
+    unhomoglyph "^1.0.6"
+    uuid "10"
+
 "matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
   version "34.3.1"
   resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/8d19782c57ba5264f06a80c724b41cf4ba8482e8"