diff --git a/dev_requirements.txt b/dev_requirements.txt
index 8285b0456f..8ffb1e944f 100644
--- a/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ pytest-cov>=4.0.0
 vulture>=2.3.0
 ujson>=4.2.0
 wheel>=0.30.0
+urllib3<2
 uvloop
diff --git a/redis/__init__.py b/redis/__init__.py
index b8850add15..0380018557 100644
--- a/redis/__init__.py
+++ b/redis/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import sys
 
+from redis import asyncio  # noqa
 from redis.backoff import default_backoff
 from redis.client import Redis, StrictRedis
 from redis.cluster import RedisCluster