diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4f8d81f04a..49cc7b92a7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ protobuf==3.19.4
 pypandoc==1.7.2
 PyYAML==6.0
 dataclasses==0.6  # TODO(busunkim) remove when 3.6 support is dropped
-setuptools==60.5.0 # pin setuptools to workaround https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3072
+setuptools==60.7.1