diff --git a/lib/channel/channel.js b/lib/channel/channel.js
index 5f0e6fed..f13ef131 100644
--- a/lib/channel/channel.js
+++ b/lib/channel/channel.js
@@ -609,9 +609,7 @@ Channel.prototype.handleReadLog = function (user) {
 };
 
 Channel.prototype._broadcast = function (msg, data, ns) {
-    sio.ioServers.forEach(function (io) {
-        io.sockets.in(ns).emit(msg, data);
-    });
+    sio.instance.in(ns).emit(msg, data);
 };
 
 Channel.prototype.broadcastAll = function (msg, data) {
diff --git a/lib/io/ioserver.js b/lib/io/ioserver.js
index 09cb12b4..bde1e93b 100644
--- a/lib/io/ioserver.js
+++ b/lib/io/ioserver.js
@@ -26,14 +26,16 @@ var ipCount = {};
 /**
  * Called before an incoming socket.io connection is accepted.
  */
-function handleAuth(data, accept) {
-    data.user = false;
+function handleAuth(socket, accept) {
+    var data = socket.request;
+
+    socket.user = false;
     if (data.headers.cookie) {
         cookieParser(data, null, function () {
             var auth = data.cookies.auth;
             db.users.verifyAuth(auth, function (err, user) {
                 if (!err) {
-                    data.user = {
+                    socket.user = {
                         name: user.name,
                         global_rank: user.global_rank
                     };
@@ -158,10 +160,10 @@ function handleConnection(sock) {
     addTypecheckedFunctions(sock);
 
     var user = new User(sock);
-    if (sock.handshake.user) {
+    if (sock.user) {
         user.setFlag(Flags.U_REGISTERED);
         user.clearFlag(Flags.U_READY);
-        user.refreshAccount({ name: sock.handshake.user.name },
+        user.refreshAccount({ name: sock.user.name },
                             function (err, account) {
             if (err) {
                 user.clearFlag(Flags.U_REGISTERED);
@@ -189,44 +191,30 @@ function handleConnection(sock) {
 
 module.exports = {
     init: function (srv) {
+        var bound = {};
+        var io = sio.instance = sio();
+
+        io.use(handleAuth);
+        io.on("connection", handleConnection);
+
         Config.get("listen").forEach(function (bind) {
             if (!bind.io) {
                 return;
             }
             var id = bind.ip + ":" + bind.port;
-            if (id in srv.ioServers) {
+            if (id in bound) {
                 Logger.syslog.log("[WARN] Ignoring duplicate listen address " + id);
                 return;
             }
 
-            var io = null;
             if (id in srv.servers) {
-                io = srv.ioServers[id] = sio.listen(srv.servers[id]);
+                io.attach(srv.servers[id]);
             } else {
-                if (net.isIPv6(bind.ip) || bind.ip === "::") {
-                    /**
-                     * Socket.IO won't bind to a v6 address natively.
-                     * Instead, we have to create a node HTTP server, bind it
-                     * to the desired address, then have socket.io listen on it
-                     */
-                    io = srv.ioServers[id] = sio.listen(
-                        require("http").createServer().listen(bind.port, bind.ip)
-                    );
-                } else {
-                    io = srv.ioServers[id] = sio.listen(bind.port, bind.ip);
-                }
+                io.attach(require("http").createServer().listen(bind.port, bind.ip));
             }
 
-            if (io) {
-                io.set("log level", 1);
-                io.set("authorization", handleAuth);
-                io.on("connection", handleConnection);
-            }
+            bound[id] = null;
         });
-
-        sio.ioServers = Object.keys(srv.ioServers)
-                        .filter(Object.hasOwnProperty.bind(srv.ioServers))
-                        .map(function (k) { return srv.ioServers[k] });
     }
 };
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2ede3b54..5627b6bb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "oauth": "^0.9.12",
     "q": "^1.0.1",
     "serve-static": "^1.5.3",
-    "socket.io": "~0.9.16",
+    "socket.io": "^1.0.6",
     "yamljs": "^0.1.5"
   }
 }
diff --git a/www/js/callbacks.js b/www/js/callbacks.js
index e9608a1c..f8946ae4 100644
--- a/www/js/callbacks.js
+++ b/www/js/callbacks.js
@@ -1095,17 +1095,10 @@ try {
         throw false;
     }
 
-    if (NO_WEBSOCKETS || USEROPTS.altsocket) {
-        var i = io.transports.indexOf("websocket");
-        if (i >= 0) {
-            io.transports.splice(i, 1);
-        }
-    }
-
     if (IO_URL === IO_URLS["ipv4-ssl"] || IO_URL === IO_URLS["ipv6-ssl"]) {
-        socket = io.connect(IO_URL, { secure: true });
+        socket = io(IO_URL, { secure: true });
     } else {
-        socket = io.connect(IO_URL);
+        socket = io(IO_URL);
     }
     setupCallbacks();
 } catch (e) {