diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 765db8a..8ede0d0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 tqdm==4.30.0
 pytorch_pretrained_bert==0.5.1
-setuptools==65.5.1
+setuptools==70.0.0
 git+git://github.com/j6mes/drqa@parallel
 git+git://github.com/sheffieldnlp/fever-scorer@master