diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 362a16b..4a28cc2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ boto3==1.40.55
 botocore==1.40.55
 git+ssh://git@github.com/Aignosi/sientia-dataops-library.git@1.6.1
 prometheus-client==0.23.1
-mlflow==2.10.1
+mlflow==2.18.0
+setuptools<81
 evidently==0.4.21
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
 scikit-learn==1.4.2