diff --git a/changelog.d/3256.dep.rst b/changelog.d/3256.dep.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..554998fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/3256.dep.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Use websockets 8.1
diff --git a/changelog.d/3526.enhance.rst b/changelog.d/3526.enhance.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..15256eb6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/3526.enhance.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Show DeprecationWarning's
diff --git a/redbot/__init__.py b/redbot/__init__.py
index 16461d28d..5e930bf52 100644
--- a/redbot/__init__.py
+++ b/redbot/__init__.py
@@ -196,3 +196,5 @@ version_info = VersionInfo.from_str(__version__)
 
 # Filter fuzzywuzzy slow sequence matcher warning
 _warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", module=r"fuzzywuzzy.*")
+# Show DeprecationWarning
+_warnings.filterwarnings("default", category=DeprecationWarning)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ef68bef17..78f5fa611 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ install_requires =
     schema==0.7.1
     tqdm==4.41.1
     uvloop==0.14.0; sys_platform != "win32" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython"
-    websockets==6.0
+    websockets==8.1
     yarl==1.4.2
 
 [options.extras_require]