diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index df63b9bb3..046668b07 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
     python_requires=">=3.6",
     install_requires=["numpy>=1.17", "psutil",
                       "importlib-metadata>=1.0;python_version<'3.8'",
-                      "setuptools<74.0"],
+                      "setuptools"],
     extras_require={
         "doc": ["sphinx", "sphinx-gallery", "sphinx-argparse"],
         "userproject": ["mnist", "tqdm", "scipy", "matplotlib"],