diff --git a/.changelog/24029.txt b/.changelog/24029.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e31317de02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/24029.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:improvement
+raft: Bump raft to v1.7.1 which includes pre-vote. This should make servers more stable after network partitions
+```
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index aa4ddab0ad1..c39b1a157bd 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.5.1
 	github.com/hashicorp/net-rpc-msgpackrpc/v2 v2.0.0
 	github.com/hashicorp/nomad/api v0.0.0-20230103221135-ce00d683f9be
-	github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.6.1
+	github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.7.1
 	github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6
 	github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/v2 v2.3.0
 	github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.10.2-0.20240320153621-5d32001edfaa
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 32239ce6b30..872b05ef688 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -752,8 +752,8 @@ github.com/hashicorp/memberlist v0.5.1/go.mod h1:zGDXV6AqbDTKTM6yxW0I4+JtFzZAJVo
 github.com/hashicorp/net-rpc-msgpackrpc/v2 v2.0.0 h1:kBpVVl1sl3MaSrs97e0+pDQhSrqJv9gVbSUrPpVfl1w=
 github.com/hashicorp/net-rpc-msgpackrpc/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:6pdNz0vo0mF0GvhwDG56O3N18qBrAz/XRIcfINfTbwo=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.2.0/go.mod h1:vPAJM8Asw6u8LxC3eJCUZmRP/E4QmUGE1R7g7k8sG/8=
-github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.6.1 h1:v/jm5fcYHvVkL0akByAp+IDdDSzCNCGhdO6VdB56HIM=
-github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.6.1/go.mod h1:N1sKh6Vn47mrWvEArQgILTyng8GoDRNYlgKyK7PMjs0=
+github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.7.1 h1:ytxsNx4baHsRZrhUcbt3+79zc4ly8qm7pi0393pSchY=
+github.com/hashicorp/raft v1.7.1/go.mod h1:hUeiEwQQR/Nk2iKDD0dkEhklSsu3jcAcqvPzPoZSAEM=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6 h1:C1q3RNF2FfXNZfHWbvVAu0QixaQK8K5pX4O5lh+9z4I=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-autopilot v0.1.6/go.mod h1:Af4jZBwaNOI+tXfIqIdbcAnh/UyyqIMj/pOISIfhArw=
 github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb v0.0.0-20171010151810-6e5ba93211ea/go.mod h1:pNv7Wc3ycL6F5oOWn+tPGo2gWD4a5X+yp/ntwdKLjRk=