diff --git a/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py b/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
index 57114faa..b2cf02dc 100644
--- a/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
+++ b/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ from flask_socketio import Namespace
 from inspect import signature
 from threading import Lock
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List
-import math
 from app import db, hashids, socketio
 from app.decorators import socketio_login_required
 from app.models import Corpus, CorpusStatus
@@ -122,7 +121,7 @@ class CQiNamespace(Namespace):
             socketio.sleep(3)
             retry_counter -= 1
             db.session.refresh(db_corpus)
-        cqi_client = CQiClient(f'cqpserver_{db_corpus_id}', timeout=math.inf)
+        cqi_client = CQiClient(f'cqpserver_{db_corpus_id}', timeout=None)
         session['cqi_over_sio'] = {}
         session['cqi_over_sio']['cqi_client'] = cqi_client
         session['cqi_over_sio']['cqi_client_lock'] = Lock()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 18593b1c..3ab13960 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 apifairy
-cqi
+cqi>=0.1.4
 dnspython==2.2.1
 docker
 eventlet