diff --git a/dev/requirements.txt b/dev/requirements.txt
index 9c6fdba..353d8d2 100644
--- a/dev/requirements.txt
+++ b/dev/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ psutil==5.6.7
 pycodestyle==2.8.0
 pyflakes==2.4.0
 pylint==2.12.2
-setuptools==65.5.1; python_version >= '3.7'
+setuptools==70.0.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 toml==0.10.2; python_version >= '2.6' and python_version not in '3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3'
 tomli==2.0.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 typing-extensions==3.10.0.2