diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index c98bfa3cd..5d382a007 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Change Log
   - Had to update flake8 (from 5.0.4) to 7.1.0.
   - Had to update lower bound of Python version (from 3.8.0) to 3.8.1.
   - Had to update pyramid (from 1.10.4) to 2.0.2 (imp import not found).
+  - Had to update elasticsearch (from 7.13.4) to 7.17.9 (for snovault).
 
 
 8.12.0
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 2dda7842a..0d899b621 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -887,14 +887,14 @@ tls = ["cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "pyOpenSSL (>=17.5.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "elasticsearch"
-version = "7.13.4"
+version = "7.17.9"
 description = "Python client for Elasticsearch"
 category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, <4"
 files = [
-    {file = "elasticsearch-7.13.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:5920df0ab2630778680376d86bea349dc99860977eec9b6d2bd0860f337313f2"},
-    {file = "elasticsearch-7.13.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:52dda85f76eeb85ec873bf9ffe0ba6849e544e591f66d4048a5e48016de268e0"},
+    {file = "elasticsearch-7.17.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0e2454645dc00517dee4c6de3863411a9c5f1955d013c5fefa29123dadc92f98"},
+    {file = "elasticsearch-7.17.9.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:66c4ece2adfe7cc120e2b6a6798a1fd5c777aecf82eec39bb95cef7cfc7ea2b3"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -2260,4 +2260,4 @@ testing = ["coverage (>=5.0.3)", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8.1,<3.13"
-content-hash = "3c23000e46b93ddde7af38da7f60b63ef8876dda4f4fb0a7ace60dad33b047c8"
+content-hash = "519b86ecab688d11860b1d223484f9a9b649815d2e50df743f157e0af400672a"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e4b15a174..aee5b8016 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "dcicutils"
-version = "8.12.0.1b2"  # TODO: To become 8.13.0
+version = "8.12.0.1b3"  # TODO: To become 8.13.0
 description = "Utility package for interacting with the 4DN Data Portal and other 4DN resources"
 authors = ["4DN-DCIC Team <support@4dnucleome.org>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ boto3 = "^1.34.93"
 botocore = "^1.34.93"
 # The DCIC portals (cgap-portal and fourfront) are very particular about which ElasticSearch version.
 # This value is intentionally pinned and must not be changed casually.
-elasticsearch = "7.13.4"
+#elasticsearch = "7.13.4"
+elasticsearch = "^7.17.9"
 appdirs = "^1.4.4"
 aws-requests-auth = ">=0.4.2,<1"
 chardet = "^5.2.0"