diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index cb14b12d..3a1bf9b0 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ drf-yasg==1.21.7
 gunicorn==23.0.0
 parsepatch==0.1.3
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
+setuptools==74.1.2
 sqlparse==0.5.1
 whitenoise==6.7.0
diff --git a/bot/docker/Dockerfile b/bot/docker/Dockerfile
index f5ef6eae..53f9e8c6 100644
--- a/bot/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/bot/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 FROM python:3.12.5-slim
 
+RUN pip install setuptools==74.1.2 --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --quiet
+
 ADD tools /src/tools
 RUN cd /src/tools && python setup.py install
 
diff --git a/bot/requirements.txt b/bot/requirements.txt
index 1591ae92..bbe7b233 100644
--- a/bot/requirements.txt
+++ b/bot/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ influxdb==5.3.2
 libmozdata==0.2.7
 python-hglib==2.6.2
 pyyaml==6.0.2
+setuptools==74.1.2
diff --git a/events/docker/Dockerfile b/events/docker/Dockerfile
index 0f79dad5..cca64b8c 100644
--- a/events/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/events/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 FROM python:3.12.5-slim
 
+RUN pip install setuptools==74.1.2 --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --quiet
+
 ADD tools /src/tools
 ADD events /src/events
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d03db489..6d038b9a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools==74.1.2", "setuptools-scm==8.1.0"]
+
 [tool.ruff]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint]