diff --git a/frontend/src/components/settings/SettingsFanoutSection.tsx b/frontend/src/components/settings/SettingsFanoutSection.tsx
index 18a7dff..e02e80e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/settings/SettingsFanoutSection.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/settings/SettingsFanoutSection.tsx
@@ -1666,7 +1666,8 @@ function AppriseConfigEditor({
           rows={4}
         />
         <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-          One URL per line. All URLs receive every matched notification.
+          One URL per line. All URLs receive every matched notification. For Matrix room version 12
+          (servername-less room IDs), append <code>?hsreq=no</code> to the URL.
         </p>
       </div>
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f21e701..45328af 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pynacl>=1.5.0",
     "meshcore==2.3.2",
     "aiomqtt>=2.0",
-    "apprise>=1.9.7",
+    "apprise>=1.9.8",
     "boto3>=1.38.0",
 ]
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 817f283..c4f1131 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "apprise"
-version = "1.9.7"
+version = "1.9.9"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "certifi" },
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "requests-oauthlib" },
     { name = "tzdata", marker = "sys_platform == 'win32'" },
 ]
-sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bc/f5/97dc06b3401bb67abcef6e8bef7155f192b75795c2a2aa4d59eb5aa7fa66/apprise-1.9.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2f73cc1e0264fb119fdb9b7cde82e8fde40a0f531ac885d8c6f0cf0f6e13aec2", size = 1937173 }
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/20/f4/be5c7e39b83a2285ab62ae7c19bb10704836f59c0a5b4c471730f54c9f98/apprise-1.9.9.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fd622c0df16bdc79ed385539735573488cafe2405d25747e87eebd6b09b26012", size = 2032822 }
 wheels = [
-    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fb/6b/cfa80a13437896eb8f4504ddac6dfa4ef7f1d2b2261057aa4a30003b8de6/apprise-1.9.7-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c7640a81a1097685de66e0508e3da89f49235d566cb44bbead1dd98419bf5ee3", size = 1459879 },
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e6/2f/54d068d7e011a8b4e0aae3e93b09a30b33bcf780829fe70c6e8876aeb0e0/apprise-1.9.9-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:55ceb8827a1c783d683881c9f77fa42eb43b3fc91b854419c452d557101c7068", size = 1519940 },
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ dev = [
 requires-dist = [
     { name = "aiomqtt", specifier = ">=2.0" },
     { name = "aiosqlite", specifier = ">=0.19.0" },
-    { name = "apprise", specifier = ">=1.9.7" },
+    { name = "apprise", specifier = ">=1.9.8" },
     { name = "boto3", specifier = ">=1.38.0" },
     { name = "fastapi", specifier = ">=0.115.0" },
     { name = "httpx", specifier = ">=0.28.1" },