diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b9bce6bf..4b5504c8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ RUN \
   python3 -m venv /lsiopy && \
   pip install -U --no-cache-dir \
     pip \
-    'setuptools==81' && \
+    setuptools && \
   pip install -U --no-cache-dir --find-links https://wheel-index.linuxserver.io/alpine-3.23/ \
     -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tautulli/tautulli-baseimage/refs/heads/python3/requirements.txt && \
   echo "**** Hard Coding versioning ****" && \
diff --git a/Dockerfile.aarch64 b/Dockerfile.aarch64
index 9820ad16..c2845eaf 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.aarch64
+++ b/Dockerfile.aarch64
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ RUN \
   python3 -m venv /lsiopy && \
   pip install -U --no-cache-dir \
     pip \
-    'setuptools==81' && \
+    setuptools && \
   pip install -U --no-cache-dir --find-links https://wheel-index.linuxserver.io/alpine-3.23/ \
     -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tautulli/tautulli-baseimage/refs/heads/python3/requirements.txt && \
   echo "**** Hard Coding versioning ****" && \