diff --git a/connexion/apps/flask.py b/connexion/apps/flask.py
index f6efe892b..352b9a4b2 100644
--- a/connexion/apps/flask.py
+++ b/connexion/apps/flask.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import flask
 import werkzeug.exceptions
+from a2wsgi import WSGIMiddleware
 from flask import Response as FlaskResponse
 from flask import signals
 from starlette.types import Receive, Scope, Send
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@
 from connexion.frameworks import flask as flask_utils
 from connexion.jsonifier import Jsonifier
 from connexion.middleware.abstract import AbstractRoutingAPI, SpecMiddleware
-from connexion.middleware.wsgi import WSGIMiddleware
 from connexion.operations import AbstractOperation
 from connexion.problem import problem
 from connexion.resolver import Resolver
diff --git a/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py b/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b98a306f..000000000
--- a/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Module that monkey patches a2wsgi to make contextvars available to the WSGI application.
-This can be removed once https://github.com/abersheeran/a2wsgi/pull/31 is merged.
-"""
-import contextvars
-import functools
-
-import a2wsgi.wsgi
-from a2wsgi.wsgi import WSGIResponder
-
-
-class ContextWSGIResponder(WSGIResponder):
-    """Custom Responder that makes contextvars available to the WSGI application."""
-
-    @property
-    def wsgi(self):
-        context = contextvars.copy_context()
-        return functools.partial(context.run, super().wsgi)
-
-
-# Monkeypatch module with our custom Responder
-a2wsgi.wsgi.WSGIResponder = ContextWSGIResponder
-
-# Import the WSGIMiddleware now so it uses our custom Responder
-from a2wsgi import WSGIMiddleware  # NOQA
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7975f706f..b50466f50 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ starlette = "^0.25"
 typing-extensions = "^4"
 werkzeug = "^2.2.1"
 
-a2wsgi = { version = "^1.4", optional = true }
+a2wsgi = { version = "^1.7", optional = true }
 flask = { version = "^2.2", extras = ["async"], optional = true }
 py-swagger-ui = { version = "^1.1.0", optional = true }
 uvicorn = { version = "^0.17.6", extras = ["standard"], optional = true }