diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f61cd65d..076a3394 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1
 	github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.6.3
 	github.com/tidwall/sjson v1.1.2
-	github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0-beta.9
+	github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200820211705-5c72a883971a // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200904194848-62affa334b73 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20200625203802-6e8e738ad208
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 68e3366e..152d070d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ github.com/tidwall/sjson v1.1.2/go.mod h1:SEzaDwxiPzKzNfUEO4HbYF/m4UCSJDsGgNqsS1
 github.com/tyler-smith/go-bip39 v1.0.1-0.20181017060643-dbb3b84ba2ef/go.mod h1:sJ5fKU0s6JVwZjjcUEX2zFOnvq0ASQ2K9Zr6cf67kNs=
 github.com/ugorji/go/codec v0.0.0-20181204163529-d75b2dcb6bc8/go.mod h1:VFNgLljTbGfSG7qAOspJ7OScBnGdDN/yBr0sguwnwf0=
 github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.1/go.mod h1:Gos4lmkARVdJ6EkW0WaNv/tZAAMe9V7XWyB60NtXRu0=
-github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0-beta.9 h1:iBRIniTnWOo0kqkg3k3XR8Vn6OCkVlIuZNo0UoBrKx4=
-github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0-beta.9/go.mod h1:HVxBVPUK/+fZMonk4bi1islLa8V3cfnBug0+4dykPzo=
+github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0 h1:nCaMMPEyfgwkGc/Y0GreJPhuvzqCqW+Ufq5lY7zLO2c=
+github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.0.0/go.mod h1:HVxBVPUK/+fZMonk4bi1islLa8V3cfnBug0+4dykPzo=
 github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser v0.1.2 h1:gnjoVuB/kljJ5wICEEOpx98oXMWPLj22G67Vbd1qPqc=
 github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser v0.1.2/go.mod h1:OeAg3pn3UbLjkWt+rN9oFYB6u/cQgqMEUPoW2WPyhdI=
 github.com/wsddn/go-ecdh v0.0.0-20161211032359-48726bab9208/go.mod h1:IotVbo4F+mw0EzQ08zFqg7pK3FebNXpaMsRy2RT+Ees=
diff --git a/storage/encoder.go b/storage/encoder.go
index c0c1e489..0f9e3185 100644
--- a/storage/encoder.go
+++ b/storage/encoder.go
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ import (
 	msgpack "github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5"
 )
 
+const (
+	jsonTag = "json"
+)
+
 // Encoder handles the encoding/decoding of structs and the
 // compression/decompression of data using zstd. Optionally,
 // the caller can provide a map of dicts on initialization that
@@ -84,7 +88,7 @@ func NewEncoder(
 
 func getEncoder(w io.Writer) *msgpack.Encoder {
 	enc := msgpack.NewEncoder(w)
-	enc.UseJSONTag(true)
+	enc.SetCustomStructTag(jsonTag)
 
 	return enc
 }
@@ -119,7 +123,7 @@ func (e *Encoder) EncodeRaw(namespace string, input []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 
 func getDecoder(r io.Reader) *msgpack.Decoder {
 	dec := msgpack.NewDecoder(r)
-	dec.UseJSONTag(true)
+	dec.SetCustomStructTag(jsonTag)
 
 	return dec
 }