diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 172226d3..64efd318 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pyspark>=3.3
   - s3fs
   - scikit-learn
+  - setuptools<70
   - shap
   - statsmodels
   - window-ops
diff --git a/settings.ini b/settings.ini
index 663b82db..8e1d4841 100644
--- a/settings.ini
+++ b/settings.ini
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ spark_requirements = fugue pyspark>=3.3 lightgbm xgboost
 aws_requirements = fsspec[s3]
 gcp_requirements = fsspec[gcs]
 azure_requirements = fsspec[adl]
-dev_requirements = black datasetsforecast matplotlib mypy nbdev polars prophet pyarrow ruff setuptools<70 shap statsmodels
+dev_requirements = black datasetsforecast matplotlib mypy nbdev polars prophet pyarrow ruff shap statsmodels
 nbs_path = nbs
 doc_path = _docs
 recursive = True