diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1c2d4ddb..ab873971 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-setuptools==21.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 traitlets>=4.1
 tornado==5.1.1
 requests==2.20.0