diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d8faec40a2..4cbfd47e0f 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": "34.9.0-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 1215c3e333..654f31a215 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8124,6 +8124,27 @@ 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@34.9.0-rc.0:
+  version "34.9.0-rc.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-js-sdk/-/matrix-js-sdk-34.9.0-rc.0.tgz#889bd997c048f7339ccad29c5173eab69ba4705e"
+  integrity sha512-feljwdWJpXTCBXo1TV030GZMRMBacZJS1Sq1ml+8qVbvrh7cZ71KMuR9oiOivJPnxqPob9oayvzR/YxojZw/uQ==
+  dependencies:
+    "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
+    "@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm" "^9.0.0"
+    "@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 "34.7.0"
   resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/b842192a3415dbe91c8a5d13ae7c0fa2b8c239ad"
@@ -8151,10 +8172,9 @@ matrix-mock-request@^2.5.0:
   dependencies:
     expect "^28.1.0"
 
-matrix-react-sdk@3.113.0:
-  version "3.113.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-react-sdk/-/matrix-react-sdk-3.113.0.tgz#66bb447d6ead469df191a9cd1a412210b18a2c95"
-  integrity sha512-ZMOcmcCRW1La3dp9Cqyuuk9qUP+OLJ4BCB2zkjwpUbSKO35e1ahFy+dYqtRNFbCz3C2Auzw3ED9kV2uLFkTxLg==
+"matrix-react-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#develop":
+  version "3.109.0"
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/tar.gz/b67a2303f912a8cab5caf089f3ea710850aa252c"
   dependencies:
     "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
     "@matrix-org/analytics-events" "^0.25.0"