diff --git a/mautrix_facebook/db/__init__.py b/mautrix_facebook/db/__init__.py
index 2107924a653c13fefd27098c5d50e77db436bb6f..4ae7b896fae892b77b3e3efb9ff77dfcd2ab2b52 100644
--- a/mautrix_facebook/db/__init__.py
+++ b/mautrix_facebook/db/__init__.py
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ from .user import User
 from .user_portal import UserPortal
 from .user_contact import Contact
 
-try:
-    from mautrix.bridge.db.nio_state_store import init as init_nio_db
-except ImportError:
-    init_nio_db = None
-
 
 def init(db_engine) -> None:
     for table in (Portal, Message, Reaction, User, Puppet, UserPortal, Contact, UserProfile,
@@ -21,5 +16,3 @@ def init(db_engine) -> None:
         table.t = table.__table__
         table.c = table.t.c
         table.column_names = table.c.keys()
-    if init_nio_db:
-        init_nio_db(db_engine)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 98f033a2149d2808963bc66ea7844a2ff3a9ac33..d58bba967739fae5436d33e102e1d1313fc7ac25 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ alembic>=1,<2
 ruamel.yaml>=0.15.94,<0.17
 commonmark>=0.8,<0.10
 python-magic>=0.4,<0.5
-mautrix==0.6.0.beta4
+mautrix==0.6.0.beta5
 fbchat-asyncio>=0.6.10,<0.7