diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d340bc99..7ccc8af0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18381,3 +18381,6 @@
 2019-01-15 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Fixed a bug in rdlogedit(1) that caused indicated meter levels
 	to be 5 dB too high for incoming signals in the voicetracker dialog.
+2019-01-15 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Replaced deprecated 'configparser' method call in the
+	'pypad.Receiver::setConfigFile()' method.
diff --git a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
index 27cbd245..bf5f0fac 100644
--- a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
+++ b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ class Receiver(object):
         else:   # Get the config from a file
             fp=open(filename)
             self.__config_parser=configparser.ConfigParser(interpolation=None)
-            self.__config_parser.readfp(fp)
+            self.__config_parser.read_file(fp)
             fp.close()
 
         return self.__config_parser