diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 60dd738e43..580a8c2911 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -100,4 +100,4 @@ requests
 jupyterlab >=3.4,<4
 jupyterlite==0.1.0b10
 sphinx-toggleprompt
-setuptools>=51.0.0
+setuptools>=70.0.0