diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index 9763f7f5..b3237889 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -2687,19 +2687,18 @@ tornado = ["tornado (>=5)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "setuptools"
-version = "69.2.0"
+version = "70.1.1"
 description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "setuptools-69.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c21c49fb1042386df081cb5d86759792ab89efca84cf114889191cd09aacc80c"},
-    {file = "setuptools-69.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0ff4183f8f42cd8fa3acea16c45205521a4ef28f73c6391d8a25e92893134f2e"},
+    {file = "setuptools-70.1.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a58a8fde0541dab0419750bcc521fbdf8585f6e5cb41909df3a472ef7b81ca95"},
+    {file = "setuptools-70.1.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:937a48c7cdb7a21eb53cd7f9b59e525503aa8abaf3584c730dc5f7a5bec3a650"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
-docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (<7.2.5)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-lint", "sphinx-notfound-page (>=1,<2)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier"]
-testing = ["build[virtualenv]", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "importlib-metadata", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.9)", "jaraco.develop (>=7.21)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "mypy (==1.9)", "packaging (>=23.2)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-home (>=0.5)", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-perf", "pytest-ruff (>=0.2.1)", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist (>=3)", "tomli", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
-testing-integration = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "packaging (>=23.2)", "pytest", "pytest-enabler", "pytest-xdist", "tomli", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
+docs = ["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"]
+testing = ["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,!=8.1.1)", "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"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "shellingham"
@@ -3356,4 +3355,4 @@ 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 = "97b0e23c67bce263e7f5212a065b49fbaaf1ddecd3ad925c381679e91d4135a5"
+content-hash = "b9cad74d61d6576875abc660256c51c94e23fcb15276197e6b6a3e3ea28bc3b1"
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
index ebcd7a89..34b55db8 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 = "^69.2.0"
+setuptools = "^70.1.1"
 
 # we cannot upgrade werkzeug due to connexion. See comment in .snyk file
 werkzeug = "^2.3"