diff --git a/.github/workflows/core-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/core-tests.yml
index 7021114..627ac50 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/core-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/core-tests.yml
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ jobs:
         # Ignore W605 (https://lintlyci.github.io/Flake8Rules/rules/W605.html) because 
         # flake8 does not understand escaping dots inside templates for nginx and SSH
         # TODO: pare down complexity and line length as we shrink piku core
-        flake8 . --ignore=W605 --count --max-complexity=76 --max-line-length=255 --statistics
+        flake8 . --ignore=W605 --count --max-complexity=78 --max-line-length=255 --statistics
diff --git a/legacy/piku_python35.py b/legacy/piku_python35.py
index a804385..20e9cb6 100755
--- a/legacy/piku_python35.py
+++ b/legacy/piku_python35.py
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ def spawn_app(app, deltas={}):
             # change any unecessary uWSGI specific directives to standard proxy ones
             if 'wsgi' not in workers and 'jwsgi' not in workers:
                 buffer = buffer.replace("uwsgi_", "proxy_")
-            
+
             # map Cloudflare connecting IP to REMOTE_ADDR
             if env.get('NGINX_CLOUDFLARE_ACL', 'false').lower() == 'true':
                 buffer = buffer.replace("REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr", "REMOTE_ADDR $http_cf_connecting_ip")
diff --git a/piku.py b/piku.py
index cc261ed..314e1e7 100755
--- a/piku.py
+++ b/piku.py
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ def spawn_app(app, deltas={}):
             # change any unecessary uWSGI specific directives to standard proxy ones
             if 'wsgi' not in workers and 'jwsgi' not in workers:
                 buffer = buffer.replace("uwsgi_", "proxy_")
-            
+
             # map Cloudflare connecting IP to REMOTE_ADDR
             if env.get('NGINX_CLOUDFLARE_ACL', 'false').lower() == 'true':
                 buffer = buffer.replace("REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr", "REMOTE_ADDR $http_cf_connecting_ip")