diff --git a/packages/util/setup.cfg b/packages/util/setup.cfg
index 39708d11975..2517964f026 100644
--- a/packages/util/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/util/setup.cfg
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jstree =
     dictobj
 template =
     Cheetah3!=3.2.6.post2
-    future
+    future @ git+https://github.com/nsoranzo/python-future.git@python312-imp-module_past
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 71982343544..a960a5f375b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ dparse = "*"
 edam-ontology = "*"
 fastapi = ">=0.108"
 fs = "*"
-future = "*"
+future = { git = "https://github.com/nsoranzo/python-future.git", branch = "python312-imp-module_past" }
 galaxy_sequence_utils = "*"
 graphene-sqlalchemy = "3.0.0rc1"  # need a beta release to be compat. with starlette plugin
 gravity = ">=1.0.4"