diff --git a/painter/requirements.txt b/painter/requirements.txt
index 2256d90e..9c715255 100644
--- a/painter/requirements.txt
+++ b/painter/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PyQt5==5.15.7
 numpy==1.22.1
-setuptools==65.5.1
+setuptools==70.0.0
 natsort==8.0.2
 scikit-image==0.19.1
 PyWavelets==1.2.0