diff --git a/desktop/core/ext-py/djangomako-1.0.1/djangomako/backends.py b/desktop/core/ext-py/djangomako-1.0.1/djangomako/backends.py
index 399704a17c..98525ba99a 100644
--- a/desktop/core/ext-py/djangomako-1.0.1/djangomako/backends.py
+++ b/desktop/core/ext-py/djangomako-1.0.1/djangomako/backends.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import tempfile
 
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static
-from django.template.base import TemplateDoesNotExist, TemplateSyntaxError
+from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist, TemplateSyntaxError
 from django.template.backends.base import BaseEngine
 from django.template.backends.utils import csrf_input_lazy, \
     csrf_token_lazy
diff --git a/desktop/core/src/desktop/settings.py b/desktop/core/src/desktop/settings.py
index 298d2eb081..c3a57e3784 100644
--- a/desktop/core/src/desktop/settings.py
+++ b/desktop/core/src/desktop/settings.py
@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ TEMPLATES = [
     'NAME': 'mako',
     'OPTIONS': {
       'context_processors': GTEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS,
-      'loaders': GTEMPLATE_LOADERS,
     },
   },
   {