diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de565ba0..2aad05b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ IMPROVEMENTS:
  * build: Updated to Go 1.21.5 [[GH-790](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/790)]
  * plugin/target/aws: Prevent scaling if an instance refresh is in progress [[GH-597](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/597)]
  * plugin/target/aws: Add new configuration `retry_attempts` to account for potentially slow ASG update operations [[GH-594](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/594)
- * agent: Update Nomad API dependency to v1.6.0 [[GH-671](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/671)]
+ * agent: Update Nomad API dependency to v1.7.1 [[GH-796](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/796)]
  * agent: Add specific metadata to drained nodes to allow for later identification [[GH-636](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/issues/627)]
  * agent: Logged 404s from jobs/policies going away lowered to debug [[GH-723](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/723/)]
  * agent: Added config option to enable file and line log detail [[GH-769](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler/pull/769/files)]
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index cc2d41e1..79ec70c8 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin v1.6.0
 	github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 v2.19.1
-	github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231110155500-62007e3b1819
+	github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231208181121-608e71943003
 	github.com/mitchellh/cli v1.1.5
 	github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 7b7c36b2..ee138f36 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4 h1:YDjusn29QI/Das2iO9M0BHnIbxPeyuCHsjMW+l
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4/go.mod h1:iADmTwqILo4mZ8BN3D2Q6+9jd8WM5uGBxy+E8yxSoD4=
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 v2.19.1 h1://i05Jqznmb2EXqa39Nsvyan2o5XyMowW5fnCKW5RPI=
 github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2 v2.19.1/go.mod h1:ThLC89FV4p9MPW804KVbe/cEXoQ8NZEh+JtMeeGErHE=
-github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231110155500-62007e3b1819 h1:61k3uQgzhA7/h8LS46VyWTey98GQkoktMKewpYf8PvU=
-github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231110155500-62007e3b1819/go.mod h1:ijDwa6o1uG1jFSq6kERiX2PamKGpZzTmo0XOFNeFZgw=
+github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231208181121-608e71943003 h1:UDht8434mDy0a4QVyHYd4PGoWJYWtOg+KlgtCRgzLoU=
+github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20231208181121-608e71943003/go.mod h1:ijDwa6o1uG1jFSq6kERiX2PamKGpZzTmo0XOFNeFZgw=
 github.com/hashicorp/yamux v0.1.1 h1:yrQxtgseBDrq9Y652vSRDvsKCJKOUD+GzTS4Y0Y8pvE=
 github.com/hashicorp/yamux v0.1.1/go.mod h1:CtWFDAQgb7dxtzFs4tWbplKIe2jSi3+5vKbgIO0SLnQ=
 github.com/huandu/xstrings v1.3.1/go.mod h1:y5/lhBue+AyNmUVz9RLU9xbLR0o4KIIExikq4ovT0aE=