diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 486ee6fad..09b1fceb0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     "browser-request": "^0.3.3",
     "gfm.css": "^1.1.2",
     "highlight.js": "^9.13.1",
-    "matrix-js-sdk": "6.2.2",
+    "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop",
     "matrix-react-sdk": "2.7.2",
     "olm": "https://packages.matrix.org/npm/olm/olm-3.1.4.tgz",
     "postcss-easings": "^2.0.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 7e620c9e2..4abd0226b 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -6980,6 +6980,20 @@ matrix-js-sdk@6.2.2:
     request "^2.88.0"
     unhomoglyph "^1.0.2"
 
+"matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#develop":
+  version "6.2.2"
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/1c194e81637fb07fe6ad67cda33be0d5d4c10115"
+  dependencies:
+    "@babel/runtime" "^7.8.3"
+    another-json "^0.2.0"
+    browser-request "^0.3.3"
+    bs58 "^4.0.1"
+    content-type "^1.0.2"
+    loglevel "^1.6.4"
+    qs "^6.5.2"
+    request "^2.88.0"
+    unhomoglyph "^1.0.2"
+
 matrix-mock-request@^1.2.3:
   version "1.2.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-mock-request/-/matrix-mock-request-1.2.3.tgz#56b15d86e2601a9b48a854844396d18caab649c8"
@@ -7004,8 +7018,8 @@ matrix-react-sdk@2.7.2:
     create-react-class "^15.6.0"
     diff-dom "^4.1.3"
     diff-match-patch "^1.0.4"
-    emojibase-data "^5.0.1"
-    emojibase-regex "^4.0.1"
+    emojibase-data "^4.0.2"
+    emojibase-regex "^3.0.0"
     escape-html "^1.0.3"
     file-saver "^1.3.3"
     filesize "3.5.6"
@@ -7032,7 +7046,6 @@ matrix-react-sdk@2.7.2:
     react-beautiful-dnd "^4.0.1"
     react-dom "^16.9.0"
     react-focus-lock "^2.2.1"
-    react-resizable "^1.10.1"
     resize-observer-polyfill "^1.5.0"
     sanitize-html "^1.18.4"
     text-encoding-utf-8 "^1.0.1"