diff --git a/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml b/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
index 9b2fd9d5c1..6b29cef87d 100644
--- a/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
+++ b/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ requirements:
     - pip
     - dask-core {{ dask_version }}
     - versioneer =0.29
+    - setuptools >=62.6
     - tomli # [py<311]
   run:
     - python >=3.10