diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9fec7008ba8..6daf5d104f4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ fairscale==0.3.7
 docformatter==1.3.0
 flake8-bugbear==19.8.0
 flake8==3.7.8
+importlib-metadata<4.3
 iopath~=0.1.8
 gitdb2==2.0.5
 GitPython==3.0.3