diff --git a/aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch b/aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c79ca8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From: Matthias Fehring <buschmann23@opensuse.org>
+Date: 2019-09-18 09:23:00 +0200
+Subject: fix type error
+Upstream: merged (https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/4057)
+
+At least multidict 4.5 is now required.
+
+---
+ setup.py |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/setup.py	2019-09-06 14:54:33.000000000 +0200
++++ b/setup.py	2019-09-18 09:19:56.227118006 +0200
+@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
+ install_requires = [
+     'attrs>=17.3.0',
+     'chardet>=2.0,<4.0',
+-    'multidict>=4.0,<5.0',
++    'multidict>=4.5,<5.0',
+     'async_timeout>=3.0,<4.0',
+     'yarl>=1.0,<2.0',
+     'idna-ssl>=1.0; python_version<"3.7"',
diff --git a/python-aiohttp.changes b/python-aiohttp.changes
index c12ffac..488d4a3 100644
--- a/python-aiohttp.changes
+++ b/python-aiohttp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Sep 18 07:34:10 UTC 2019 - Matthias Fehring <buschmann23@opensuse.org>
+
+- Add patch to fix type error with old multidict:
+  * aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch
+- Require python-multidict 4.5 or newer
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 13 12:05:43 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-aiohttp.spec b/python-aiohttp.spec
index e6ccd1f..bfe2b45 100644
--- a/python-aiohttp.spec
+++ b/python-aiohttp.spec
@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ License:        Apache-2.0
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/a/aiohttp/aiohttp-%{version}.tar.gz
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch
+Patch0:         aiohttp-3.6.0-fix-typeerror.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module Cython}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module async_timeout >= 3.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module attrs >= 17.3.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module chardet >= 2.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module devel >= 3.5.3}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module multidict >= 4.0}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module multidict >= 4.5}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ Requires:       python-attrs >= 17.3.0
 Requires:       python-brotlipy
 Requires:       python-chardet >= 2.0
 Requires:       python-gunicorn
-Requires:       python-multidict >= 4.0
+Requires:       python-multidict >= 4.5
 Requires:       python-yarl >= 1.0
 Recommends:     python-aiodns
 Recommends:     python-cChardet
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ HTML documentation on the API and examples for %{name}.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n aiohttp-%{version}
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"