diff --git a/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py b/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
index b2cf02dc..6c093a9e 100644
--- a/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
+++ b/app/corpora/cqi_over_sio/__init__.py
@@ -121,7 +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=None)
+        cqi_client = CQiClient(f'cqpserver_{db_corpus_id}', timeout=float('inf'))
         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 a2a2625f..67a6a6ca 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 apifairy
-cqi>=0.1.4
+cqi>=0.1.5
 dnspython==2.2.1
 docker
 eventlet