diff --git a/settings.ini b/settings.ini
index 8e1d4841..663b82db 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 shap statsmodels
+dev_requirements = black datasetsforecast matplotlib mypy nbdev polars prophet pyarrow ruff setuptools<70 shap statsmodels
 nbs_path = nbs
 doc_path = _docs
 recursive = True