diff --git a/testing/py3-ioflo/APKBUILD b/testing/py3-ioflo/APKBUILD
index 5e79e346487..acaea7994b4 100644
--- a/testing/py3-ioflo/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/py3-ioflo/APKBUILD
@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@
 pkgname=py3-ioflo
 _pkgname=ioflo
 pkgver=2.0.2
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Automated Reasoning Engine and Flow Based Programming Framework"
 url="https://github.com/ioflo/ioflo"
 arch="noarch"
 license="MIT"
 depends="python3"
-makedepends="py3-setuptools-git"
+makedepends="py3-setuptools-git py3-setuptools"
 checkdepends="py3-pytest"
-source="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${_pkgname:0:1}/$_pkgname/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/${_pkgname:0:1}/$_pkgname/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	python-3.9.patch
+	"
 builddir="$srcdir"/$_pkgname-$pkgver
 
 replaces="py-ioflo" # Backwards compatibility
@@ -32,4 +34,5 @@ package() {
 	rm -f "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/ioflo3
 }
 
-sha512sums="7f704ccd5680b612d63990915259999e967d87dadd25608143dbc6ecf7a7679eb33f1c11c2d490a358845946add668e6014b80705db8701127b5d05ac436cc4b  ioflo-2.0.2.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="7f704ccd5680b612d63990915259999e967d87dadd25608143dbc6ecf7a7679eb33f1c11c2d490a358845946add668e6014b80705db8701127b5d05ac436cc4b  ioflo-2.0.2.tar.gz
+f951ce837fbe501535b6baab8e4f998af14660c0ec375e01b2526fd848c8d24ceae822263a256befea75163fade36ab059c775b53d5e96fe514097516d9d5726  python-3.9.patch"
diff --git a/testing/py3-ioflo/python-3.9.patch b/testing/py3-ioflo/python-3.9.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4ae368cd642
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/py3-ioflo/python-3.9.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From 2961d846dd250334b8fc52c2ef4c00ebc36ed510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
+Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:42:02 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix compatibility with Python 3.9
+
+json.loads() removed encoding parameter
+(https://bugs.python.org/issue39377)
+It was a no-op since 3.1.
+---
+ ioflo/aio/http/clienting.py | 4 ++--
+ ioflo/aio/http/httping.py   | 3 +--
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/ioflo/aio/http/clienting.py b/ioflo/aio/http/clienting.py
+index 11132e3..967570e 100644
+--- a/ioflo/aio/http/clienting.py
++++ b/ioflo/aio/http/clienting.py
+@@ -268,13 +268,13 @@ def build(self):
+                                          '\r\n{2}'.format(boundary, key, val))
+                     formParts.append('\r\n--{0}--'.format(boundary))
+                     form = "".join(formParts)
+-                    body = form.encode(encoding='utf-8')
++                    body = form.encode('utf-8')
+                     self.headers[u'content-type'] = u'multipart/form-data; boundary={0}'.format(boundary)
+                 else:
+                     formParts = [u"{0}={1}".format(key, val) for key, val in self.fargs.items()]
+                     form = u'&'.join(formParts)
+                     form = quote_plus(form, '&=')
+-                    body = form.encode(encoding='utf-8')
++                    body = form.encode('utf-8')
+                     self.headers[u'content-type'] = u'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'
+             else:  # body last in precendence
+                 body = self.body
+diff --git a/ioflo/aio/http/httping.py b/ioflo/aio/http/httping.py
+index ba604e7..a22cc84 100644
+--- a/ioflo/aio/http/httping.py
++++ b/ioflo/aio/http/httping.py
+@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ def parseEvents(self):
+                 if edata:  # data so dispatch event by appending to .events
+                     if self.dictable:
+                         try:
+-                            ejson = json.loads(edata, encoding='utf-8', object_pairs_hook=odict)
++                            ejson = json.loads(edata, object_pairs_hook=odict)
+                         except ValueError as ex:
+                             ejson = None
+                         else:  # valid json set edata to ejson
+@@ -1058,7 +1058,6 @@ def dictify(self):
+         if self.jsoned or self.dictable:  # attempt to deserialize json
+             try:
+                 self.data = json.loads(self.body.decode('utf-8'),
+-                                       encoding='utf-8',
+                                        object_pairs_hook=odict)
+             except ValueError as ex:
+                 self.data = None