Respoon not loading with HexChat 2.14.3 in Debian 11

[spacecactus]

Only getting the following message, thank you.

Failed to load module: cdata 'char[4096]' has no attribute 'decode'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<init code for '_hexchat_embedded'>", line 152, in loadfile
File "/home/matt/.config/hexchat/addons/respoon.py", line 204, in
respoon_list = load_pref()
File "/home/matt/.config/hexchat/addons/respoon.py", line 71, in load_pref
for pref in hexchat.list_pluginpref():
File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hexchat/python/_hexchat.py", line 322, in list_pluginpref
return __decode(prefs_str).split(',')
File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hexchat/python/_hexchat.py", line 55, in __decode
return string.decode()
AttributeError: cdata 'char[4096]' has no attribute 'decode'