diff --git a/third_party/jinja2/filters.py b/third_party/jinja2/filters.py
index 74b108dcec..15850d96a0 100644
--- a/third_party/jinja2/filters.py
+++ b/third_party/jinja2/filters.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from itertools import groupby
 
 from markupsafe import escape
 from markupsafe import Markup
-from markupsafe import soft_unicode
+from markupsafe import soft_str
 
 from ._compat import abc
 from ._compat import imap
@@ -191,18 +191,18 @@ def do_replace(eval_ctx, s, old, new, count=None):
     ):
         s = escape(s)
     else:
-        s = soft_unicode(s)
-    return s.replace(soft_unicode(old), soft_unicode(new), count)
+        s = soft_str(s)
+    return s.replace(soft_str(old), soft_str(new), count)
 
 
 def do_upper(s):
     """Convert a value to uppercase."""
-    return soft_unicode(s).upper()
+    return soft_str(s).upper()
 
 
 def do_lower(s):
     """Convert a value to lowercase."""
-    return soft_unicode(s).lower()
+    return soft_str(s).lower()
 
 
 @evalcontextfilter
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def do_capitalize(s):
     """Capitalize a value. The first character will be uppercase, all others
     lowercase.
     """
-    return soft_unicode(s).capitalize()
+    return soft_str(s).capitalize()
 
 
 def do_title(s):
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ def do_title(s):
     return "".join(
         [
             item[0].upper() + item[1:].lower()
-            for item in _word_beginning_split_re.split(soft_unicode(s))
+            for item in _word_beginning_split_re.split(soft_str(s))
             if item
         ]
     )
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ def do_join(eval_ctx, value, d=u"", attribute=None):
         return d.join(value)
 
     # no html involved, to normal joining
-    return soft_unicode(d).join(imap(soft_unicode, value))
+    return soft_str(d).join(imap(soft_str, value))
 
 
 def do_center(value, width=80):
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ def do_wordwrap(
 
 def do_wordcount(s):
     """Count the words in that string."""
-    return len(_word_re.findall(soft_unicode(s)))
+    return len(_word_re.findall(soft_str(s)))
 
 
 def do_int(value, default=0, base=10):
@@ -820,12 +820,12 @@ def do_format(value, *args, **kwargs):
         raise FilterArgumentError(
             "can't handle positional and keyword arguments at the same time"
         )
-    return soft_unicode(value) % (kwargs or args)
+    return soft_str(value) % (kwargs or args)
 
 
 def do_trim(value, chars=None):
     """Strip leading and trailing characters, by default whitespace."""
-    return soft_unicode(value).strip(chars)
+    return soft_str(value).strip(chars)
 
 
 def do_striptags(value):
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ FILTERS = {
     "selectattr": do_selectattr,
     "slice": do_slice,
     "sort": do_sort,
-    "string": soft_unicode,
+    "string": soft_str,
     "striptags": do_striptags,
     "sum": do_sum,
     "title": do_title,
diff --git a/third_party/jinja2/runtime.py b/third_party/jinja2/runtime.py
index 3ad7968624..8c5912d3b2 100644
--- a/third_party/jinja2/runtime.py
+++ b/third_party/jinja2/runtime.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from types import MethodType
 
 from markupsafe import escape  # noqa: F401
 from markupsafe import Markup
-from markupsafe import soft_unicode
+from markupsafe import soft_str
 
 from ._compat import abc
 from ._compat import imap
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def identity(x):
 def markup_join(seq):
     """Concatenation that escapes if necessary and converts to unicode."""
     buf = []
-    iterator = imap(soft_unicode, seq)
+    iterator = imap(soft_str, seq)
     for arg in iterator:
         buf.append(arg)
         if hasattr(arg, "__html__"):