diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1de495d4..3a42b1b7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires=[
-  "setuptools==69.0.0"
+  "setuptools==78.1.1"
 ]
 
 [tool.black]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c7858b6c..1c982a38 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     download_url="https://github.com/bigmlcom/python",
     license="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0",
     setup_requires = ['pytest'],
-    install_requires = ["setuptools==70.0.0", "unidecode",
+    install_requires = ["setuptools==78.1.1", "unidecode",
         "bigml-chronos>=0.4.3", "requests",
         "requests-toolbelt", "msgpack", "numpy>=1.22", "scipy",
         "javascript"],