diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index f632da2..fb05a5c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.8"
+          python-version: "3.12"
           cache: "pip"
       - run: pip install -r release-requirements.txt && pip install wheel
       - run: flake8 --ignore=E501,E203,W503
diff --git a/release-requirements.txt b/release-requirements.txt
index 41b9cc3..745ae88 100644
--- a/release-requirements.txt
+++ b/release-requirements.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
 restructuredtext-lint==1.4.0
 rfc3986==2.0.0
 rich==13.7.1
+setuptools==70.0.0
 six==1.16.0
 tqdm==4.66.3
 twine==5.0.0