diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 33c44bd696..934b0dc839 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.27.1; python_version == '3.6'
 requests==2.28.1; python_version >= '3.7'
 semver==2.13.0
-setuptools==59.6.0
+setuptools==59.6.0; python_version == '3.6'
+setuptools==65.3.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 wcwidth==0.2.5
 # rfmdocend: required-packages
 #+pygelf%pygelf==0.4.0