diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index ddb3b37d..e2c0533b 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@ testing = ["flake8 (<5)", "func-timeout", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.12"
-content-hash = "a6d3882a3ab142b82201b83ee8a0552fd16112c4540e2a1dbcb5c38599b917c1"
+content-hash = "033b059ca2ccaa6bf967a9a1b3485e628b2010952ee6e46376429db5ff3693d6"
 
 [metadata.files]
 alabaster = [
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
index 645c56ed..7d6580b4 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ sentry-sdk = "^1.10"
 sphinx-autoapi = "^2.0"
 flask-bpmn = {git = "https://github.com/sartography/flask-bpmn", rev = "main"}
 # flask-bpmn = {develop = true, path = "../flask-bpmn"}
-mysql-connector-python = "^8.0.29"
+mysql-connector-python = "*"
 pytest-flask = "^1.2.0"
 pytest-flask-sqlalchemy = "^1.1.0"
 psycopg2 = "^2.9.3"