diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index 1741f409e..4cde9ee38 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -2795,18 +2795,19 @@ tornado = ["tornado (>=6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "setuptools"
-version = "70.2.0"
+version = "71.1.0"
 description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "setuptools-70.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b8b8060bb426838fbe942479c90296ce976249451118ef566a5a0b7d8b78fb05"},
-    {file = "setuptools-70.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bd63e505105011b25c3c11f753f7e3b8465ea739efddaccef8f0efac2137bac1"},
+    {file = "setuptools-71.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:33874fdc59b3188304b2e7c80d9029097ea31627180896fb549c578ceb8a0855"},
+    {file = "setuptools-71.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:032d42ee9fb536e33087fb66cac5f840eb9391ed05637b3f2a76a7c8fb477936"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
+core = ["importlib-metadata (>=6)", "importlib-resources (>=5.10.2)", "jaraco.text (>=3.7)", "more-itertools (>=8.8)", "ordered-set (>=3.1.1)", "packaging (>=24)", "platformdirs (>=2.6.2)", "tomli (>=2.0.1)", "wheel (>=0.43.0)"]
 doc = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-lint", "sphinx-notfound-page (>=1,<2)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier"]
-test = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "importlib-metadata", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.14)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "jaraco.test", "mypy (==1.10.0)", "packaging (>=23.2)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-home (>=0.5)", "pytest-mypy", "pytest-perf", "pytest-ruff (>=0.3.2)", "pytest-subprocess", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist (>=3)", "tomli", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
+test = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "importlib-metadata", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.14)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "jaraco.test", "mypy (==1.11.*)", "packaging (>=23.2)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pyproject-hooks (!=1.1)", "pytest (>=6,!=8.1.*)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-home (>=0.5)", "pytest-mypy", "pytest-perf", "pytest-ruff (<0.4)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1)", "pytest-ruff (>=0.3.2)", "pytest-subprocess", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist (>=3)", "tomli", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shellingham"
@@ -3463,4 +3464,4 @@ tests-strict = ["pytest (==4.6.0)", "pytest (==4.6.0)", "pytest (==6.2.5)", "pyt
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.13"
-content-hash = "ab409318c79b50a0a4726b29bf70e18480124fa6f51cda1c368b0c3458f8ace6"
+content-hash = "381aa824cc46bea0ef22831a9eaaaa3b6024012955e8650d1c857c3e466b4e1a"
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
index 1779f3b75..ef024afb5 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ spiffworkflow-connector-command = {git = "https://github.com/sartography/spiffwo
 # and to lower than 67 because i didn't feel like addressing
 # new deprecation warnings. we don't need this library explicitly,
 # but at one time it was pulled in by various libs we depend on.
-setuptools = "^70.2.0"
+setuptools = "^71.1.0"
 
 # we cannot upgrade werkzeug due to connexion. See comment in .snyk file
 werkzeug = "^2.3"