diff --git a/onadata/apps/api/__init__.py b/onadata/apps/api/__init__.py
index 47057b871..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/onadata/apps/api/__init__.py
+++ b/onadata/apps/api/__init__.py
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-
-import re
-
-import pyxform.odk_validate
-
-
-#############################################################################
-#                                  WARNING
-# This is a monkey patch to fix a bug in odk and should be removed as soon as
-# the fix is upstream
-#############################################################################
-
-def _cleanup_errors(error_message):
-
-    # this is the same code as the original function
-    def get_last_item(xpathStr):
-        l = xpathStr.split("/")
-        return l[len(l) - 1]
-
-    def replace_function(match):
-        strmatch = match.group()
-        if strmatch.startswith("/html/body") \
-                or strmatch.startswith("/root/item") \
-                or strmatch.startswith("/html/head/model/bind") \
-                or strmatch.endswith("/item/value"):
-            return strmatch
-        return "${%s}" % get_last_item(match.group())
-    pattern = "(/[a-z0-9\-_]+(?:/[a-z0-9\-_]+)+)"
-    error_message = re.compile(pattern, flags=re.I).sub(replace_function,
-        error_message)
-    k = []
-    lastline = ''
-    for line in error_message.splitlines():
-        has_java_filename = line.find('.java:') is not -1
-        is_a_java_method = line.find('\tat') is not -1
-        is_duplicate = (line == lastline)
-        lastline = line
-        if not has_java_filename and not is_a_java_method and not is_duplicate:
-            if line.startswith('java.lang.RuntimeException: '):
-                line = line.replace('java.lang.RuntimeException: ', '')
-            if line.startswith('org.javarosa.xpath.XPathUnhandledException: '):
-                line = line.replace('org.javarosa.xpath.XPathUnhandledException: ', '')
-            if line.startswith('java.lang.NullPointerException'):
-                continue
-            k.append(line)
-
-    # original value causing UnicodeDecodeError
-    #return u'\n'.join(k)
-
-    # Fix:
-    return '\n'.join(k).decode('ascii', errors="replace")
-
-
-pyxform.odk_validate._cleanup_errors = _cleanup_errors
diff --git a/onadata/apps/logger/views.py b/onadata/apps/logger/views.py
index 112fd87f1..2958a1d32 100644
--- a/onadata/apps/logger/views.py
+++ b/onadata/apps/logger/views.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 from django_digest import HttpDigestAuthenticator
 from pyxform import Survey
-from pyxform.spss import survey_to_spss_label_zip
+#from pyxform.spss import survey_to_spss_label_zip
 from wsgiref.util import FileWrapper
 
 from onadata.apps.main.models import UserProfile, MetaData
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ def download_spss_labels(request, username, form_id_string):
 
     survey= Survey.from_xls(filelike_obj=xlsform_io)
     zip_filename= '{}_spss_labels.zip'.format(xform.id_string)
+    raise NotImplementedError('Requires KoBo fork of pyxform')
     zip_io= survey_to_spss_label_zip(survey, xform.id_string)
 
     response = StreamingHttpResponse(FileWrapper(zip_io),
diff --git a/requirements/base.pip b/requirements/base.pip
index d7cfcc6d6..b3fa47e59 100644
--- a/requirements/base.pip
+++ b/requirements/base.pip
@@ -18,9 +18,8 @@ poster==0.8.1
 psycopg2==2.5.4
 pymongo==2.7.2
 lxml==3.4.0
-#-e git+https://github.com/onaio/pyxform.git@onaio#egg=pyxform
-# kobo fork supports csvs with utf, character escaping, etc.
--e git+https://github.com/kobotoolbox/pyxform.git@2.017.36#egg=pyxform
+# Use vanilla pyxform for RMS; caveat: breaks SPSS export
+pyxform==0.11.2
 django-reversion==2.0.8
 xlrd==0.9.3
 xlwt==0.7.5