diff --git a/devchat/_cli.py b/devchat/_cli.py
index 3f7a830b..2ccbb82c 100644
--- a/devchat/_cli.py
+++ b/devchat/_cli.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
-import pkg_resources
+import importlib.metadata
 import rich_click as click
 from devchat.store import Store
 from devchat.openai import OpenAIChatConfig, OpenAIChat
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 
 @click.group()
-@click.version_option(pkg_resources.get_distribution("devchat").version, '--version',
+@click.version_option(importlib.metadata.version("devchat"), '--version',
                       message='DevChat %(version)s')
 def main():
     """DevChat CLI: A command-line interface for DevChat."""
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 44e23492..3085782a 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -427,6 +427,25 @@ files = [
     {file = "idna-3.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:814f528e8dead7d329833b91c5faa87d60bf71824cd12a7530b5526063d02cb4"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "importlib-metadata"
+version = "6.8.0"
+description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "importlib_metadata-6.8.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:3ebb78df84a805d7698245025b975d9d67053cd94c79245ba4b3eb694abe68bb"},
+    {file = "importlib_metadata-6.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:dbace7892d8c0c4ac1ad096662232f831d4e64f4c4545bd53016a3e9d4654743"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+zipp = ">=0.5"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
+perf = ["ipython"]
+testing = ["flufl.flake8", "importlib-resources (>=1.3)", "packaging", "pyfakefs", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-perf (>=0.9.2)", "pytest-ruff"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "iniconfig"
 version = "2.0.0"
@@ -982,22 +1001,6 @@ rich = ">=10.7.0"
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["pre-commit"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "setuptools"
-version = "68.0.0"
-description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
-files = [
-    {file = "setuptools-68.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:11e52c67415a381d10d6b462ced9cfb97066179f0e871399e006c4ab101fc85f"},
-    {file = "setuptools-68.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:baf1fdb41c6da4cd2eae722e135500da913332ab3f2f5c7d33af9b492acb5235"},
-]
-
-[package.extras]
-docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-hoverxref (<2)", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-lint", "sphinx-notfound-page (==0.8.3)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier"]
-testing = ["build[virtualenv]", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "flake8-2020", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.9)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pip-run (>=8.8)", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=1.3)", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-perf", "pytest-ruff", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
-testing-integration = ["build[virtualenv]", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "pytest", "pytest-enabler", "pytest-xdist", "tomli", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "smmap"
 version = "5.0.0"
@@ -1305,7 +1308,22 @@ files = [
 idna = ">=2.0"
 multidict = ">=4.0"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zipp"
+version = "3.16.2"
+description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "zipp-3.16.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:679e51dd4403591b2d6838a48de3d283f3d188412a9782faadf845f298736ba0"},
+    {file = "zipp-3.16.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ebc15946aa78bd63458992fc81ec3b6f7b1e92d51c35e6de1c3804e73b799147"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9.3)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-lint"]
+testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=2.2)", "pytest-ignore-flaky", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-ruff"]
+
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "dc2e5a4801848e6abdee421b58825ead2bcf9fa86f8fea6b3af2754747d0702c"
+content-hash = "134716b4b30a8d97fe3dfa9246539d63a8bcac59bda64564d99e91a436031139"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a89f69c1..a743a726 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ rich_click = "^1.6.1"
 tiktoken = "^0.4.0"
 tinydb = "^4.7.1"
 urllib3 = "<2.0"
-setuptools = "^68.0.0"
+importlib-metadata = "^6.8.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.scripts]
 devchat = "devchat._cli:main"