diff --git a/config.nims b/config.nims
index a98cafb3f..3fc6620c3 100644
--- a/config.nims
+++ b/config.nims
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ switch("passL", "-fno-omit-frame-pointer")
 # for heap-usage-by-instance-type metrics and object base-type strings
 --define:nimTypeNames
 
+# TODO https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/issues/3130
+# We are still seeing problems with the websock package, se we stick to using news:
+switch("define", "json_rpc_websocket_package=news")
+
 const currentDir = currentSourcePath()[0 .. ^(len("config.nims") + 1)]
 switch("define", "nim_compiler_path=" & currentDir & "env.sh nim")
 switch("define", "withoutPCRE")
diff --git a/vendor/nim-websock b/vendor/nim-websock
index 283a9bb1f..fc6538fa8 160000
--- a/vendor/nim-websock
+++ b/vendor/nim-websock
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 283a9bb1fccc91fc9ab840609f57788cd19d0d24
+Subproject commit fc6538fa85f3742046002f6a94bb0dab33c4e798