diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index bd9102d37..c75f3868a 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.3 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohttp"
@@ -2416,13 +2416,13 @@ pyasn1 = ">=0.1.3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "setuptools"
-version = "70.1.1"
+version = "70.1.0"
 description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "setuptools-70.1.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a58a8fde0541dab0419750bcc521fbdf8585f6e5cb41909df3a472ef7b81ca95"},
-    {file = "setuptools-70.1.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:937a48c7cdb7a21eb53cd7f9b59e525503aa8abaf3584c730dc5f7a5bec3a650"},
+    {file = "setuptools-70.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d9b8b771455a97c8a9f3ab3448ebe0b29b5e105f1228bba41028be116985a267"},
+    {file = "setuptools-70.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:01a1e793faa5bd89abc851fa15d0a0db26f160890c7102cd8dce643e886b47f5"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -2807,4 +2807,4 @@ test = ["big-O", "importlib-resources", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools",
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "7bb89ee82f06208a09aecaa8f4f31aa2e06194e79eae305546d255d13e895368"
+content-hash = "1cccf4aa9ff3d9bc53049aa49aa2182ee4f41e773d8a5ccba5028724a2879966"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 44f68d464..62643fb6a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ cryptography = "40.0.2"
 executing = "1.2.0"
 pydantic = "< 2"
 ipywidgets = "8.1.2"
+# If updating setuptools version, please verify the odh-notebooks-sync workflow continues to work.
+# https://github.com/project-codeflare/codeflare-sdk/actions/workflows/odh-notebooks-sync.yml
+# Reference: https://github.com/target/strelka/pull/469
+setuptools = "70.1.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.docs]
 optional = true