diff --git a/hub/Chart.yaml b/hub/Chart.yaml
index 50444a64a..20df2ce2c 100644
--- a/hub/Chart.yaml
+++ b/hub/Chart.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ apiVersion: v1
 appVersion: '1.0'
 description: Deployment Chart for JupyterHub
 name: hub
-version: 20240731-224556.git.8057.h9643afd4
+version: 20240731-224556.git.8059.hf384f3d1
diff --git a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.in b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.in
index f92f4c0d1..8218600d8 100644
--- a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.in
+++ b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 certifi==2024.07.04
 DateTime
 ical==5.0.0
-requests
+niquests==3.7.2
 ruamel.yaml
 urllib3==2.2.2
diff --git a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.txt b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.txt
index 51ad5c580..8c7e1a28b 100644
--- a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.txt
+++ b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/requirements.txt
@@ -7,31 +7,37 @@
 annotated-types==0.7.0
     # via pydantic
 certifi==2024.7.4
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
-    #   requests
+    # via -r requirements.in
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
-    # via requests
+    # via niquests
 datetime==5.5
     # via -r requirements.in
-emoji==2.12.1
+emoji==2.14.0
     # via ical
+h11==0.14.0
+    # via urllib3-future
 ical==5.0.0
     # via -r requirements.in
-idna==3.7
-    # via requests
-pydantic==2.8.2
+idna==3.10
+    # via niquests
+jh2==5.0.3
+    # via urllib3-future
+kiss-headers==2.4.3
+    # via niquests
+niquests==3.7.2
+    # via -r requirements.in
+pydantic==2.9.2
     # via ical
-pydantic-core==2.20.1
+pydantic-core==2.23.4
     # via pydantic
-pyparsing==3.1.2
+pyparsing==3.1.4
     # via ical
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via ical
-pytz==2024.1
+pytz==2024.2
     # via datetime
-requests==2.32.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+qh3==1.2.0
+    # via urllib3-future
 ruamel-yaml==0.18.6
     # via -r requirements.in
 ruamel-yaml-clib==0.2.8
@@ -40,16 +46,17 @@ six==1.16.0
     # via python-dateutil
 typing-extensions==4.12.2
     # via
-    #   emoji
     #   pydantic
     #   pydantic-core
-tzdata==2024.1
+tzdata==2024.2
     # via ical
 urllib3==2.2.2
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
-    #   requests
-zope-interface==6.4.post2
+    # via -r requirements.in
+urllib3-future==2.10.901
+    # via niquests
+wassima==1.1.2
+    # via niquests
+zope-interface==7.0.3
     # via datetime
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
diff --git a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/calendar.py b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/calendar.py
index 73150cf6a..95ba45efa 100755
--- a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/calendar.py
+++ b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/calendar.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import datetime
 import logging
 import re
-import requests
+import niquests as requests
 import zoneinfo
 
 from ical.calendar_stream import IcsCalendarStream
diff --git a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/scaler.py b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/scaler.py
index 7bb240d09..ea2e79af9 100755
--- a/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/scaler.py
+++ b/images/node-placeholder-scaler/scaler/scaler.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import argparse
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
-import requests
+import niquests as requests
 import os
 from copy import deepcopy
 import time
diff --git a/node-placeholder/Chart.yaml b/node-placeholder/Chart.yaml
index 7753e9f66..51222e273 100644
--- a/node-placeholder/Chart.yaml
+++ b/node-placeholder/Chart.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ type: application
 # This is the chart version. This version number should be incremented each time you make changes
 # to the chart and its templates, including the app version.
 # Versions are expected to follow Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/)
-version: 20240731-224556.git.8054.h2abbc5d2
+version: 20240731-224556.git.8187.he9c6025c
 
 # This is the version number of the application being deployed. This version number should be
 # incremented each time you make changes to the application. Versions are not expected to
diff --git a/node-placeholder/values.yaml b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
index 2c3932b5b..90226deaf 100644
--- a/node-placeholder/values.yaml
+++ b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ image:
   repository: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ucb-datahub-2018/core/node-placeholder-scaler
   pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   # Overrides the image tag whose default is the chart appVersion.
-  tag: "20240731-224556"
+  tag: "20240731-224556.git.8187.he9c6025c"
 
 imagePullSecrets: []
 nameOverride: ""
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 399167dc6..6f1b7c07b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ chartpress
 jupyter-repo2docker==2024.3.0
 myst-parser
 chardet
-requests==2.31.0
+niquests==3.7.2
 urllib3<2.0.0
 yamllint==1.35.1
diff --git a/scripts/post-grafana-annotation.py b/scripts/post-grafana-annotation.py
index 9488638c2..bc161834c 100644
--- a/scripts/post-grafana-annotation.py
+++ b/scripts/post-grafana-annotation.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 - The requests library
 """
 import argparse
-import requests
+import niquests as requests
 import os
 import time
 
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ def main():
     ))
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/rsync-active-users.py b/scripts/rsync-active-users.py
index 44fda9641..db4afb2a1 100755
--- a/scripts/rsync-active-users.py
+++ b/scripts/rsync-active-users.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 obtainable from {hub_url}/hub/token by an admin user.
 """
 import os
-import requests
+import niquests as requests
 from dateutil.parser import parse
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed