diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index f54d3131a..2954ab59c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Change Log
   - Had to update dcicutils (from 8.11.0) to 8.13.0  (for pyramid update for imp import not found).
   - Had to update future (from >=0.15.2,<1) to 1.0.0 (otherwise in fourfront for from
     past.builtins import basestring we get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp').
+    IN PROGRESS - NOW fourfront not building ... back to future 0.18.3 ...
 * Minor change to dev_servers.py to facilitate running a local ElasticSearch proxy
   to observe traffic (resquests/responses) between the portal and ElasticSearch
   with a tool like mitmproxy or mitmweb; see comments in dev_server.py.
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b60d75eed..31ea7e652 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1140,13 +1140,12 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "future"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "0.18.3"
 description = "Clean single-source support for Python 3 and 2"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*"
 files = [
-    {file = "future-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:929292d34f5872e70396626ef385ec22355a1fae8ad29e1a734c3e43f9fbc216"},
-    {file = "future-1.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bd2968309307861edae1458a4f8a4f3598c03be43b97521076aebf5d94c07b05"},
+    {file = "future-0.18.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:34a17436ed1e96697a86f9de3d15a3b0be01d8bc8de9c1dffd59fb8234ed5307"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3763,4 +3762,4 @@ test = ["zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.13"
-content-hash = "eb2ebeb0b794686fcc38d91d2c254ce3bc80aa311ff610a5d0db5d1ad11f05e0"
+content-hash = "ae006d222ff7e26b8b7fe5c77dcde68436b166fdc5869285dfa74e4f4b97b045"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 50514f2ab..5b0ea4107 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "dcicsnovault"
-version = "11.17.0.1b4"  # TODO: To become 11.18.0
+version = "11.17.0.1b5"  # TODO: To become 11.18.0
 description = "Storage support for 4DN Data Portals."
 authors = ["4DN-DCIC Team <support@4dnucleome.org>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ elasticsearch_dsl = "^7.4.0"
 #dcicutils = "^8.11.0"
 dcicutils = "8.12.0.1b8"
 # future = ">=0.15.2,<1"
-future = "^1.0.0"
+# future = "^1.0.0"
+future = "^0.18.3"
 html5lib = ">=1.1"  # experimental, should be OK now that we're not using moto server
 humanfriendly = "^1.44.9"
 netaddr = ">=0.8.0,<1"