Fix Failing CI tests caused by new setuptools release

Makefile

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ clean:
 	pre-commit clean || true
 
 install-pip-setuptools:
-	pip install -U "pip>=21.2" "setuptools>=65.5.1" wheel
+	pip install -U "pip>=21.2" "setuptools>=65.5.1, <67.0.0" wheel
 
 lint:
 	pre-commit run -a --hook-stage manual $(hook)

RELEASE.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 * Fixed bug causing the `after_dataset_saved` hook only to be called for one output dataset when multiple are saved in a single node and async saving is in use.
 * Log level for "Credentials not found in your Kedro project config" was changed from `WARNING` to `DEBUG`.
 * Added safe extraction of tar files in `micropkg pull` to fix vulnerability caused by [CVE-2007-4559](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw9q-c7gh-j9vm).
+* Added an upper bound for the `setuptools` dependency to <67.0.0.
 
 ## Breaking changes to the API
 

dependency/requirements.txt

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ pluggy~=1.0.0
 PyYAML>=4.2, <7.0
 rich~=13.2
 rope~=1.7.0  # subject to LGPLv3 license
-setuptools>=65.5.1
+setuptools>=65.5.1, <67.0.0
 toml~=0.10
 toposort~=1.9  # Needs to be at least 1.5 to be able to raise CircularDependencyError

features/environment.py

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def _setup_minimal_env(context):
             "install",
             "-U",
             "pip>=21.2",
-            "setuptools>=65.5.1",
+            "setuptools>=65.5.1, <67.0.0",
             "wheel",
         ],
         env=context.env,

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # PEP-518 https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/
 [build-system]
 # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
-requires = ["setuptools>=65.5.1", "wheel"]  # PEP 518 specifications.
+requires = ["setuptools>=65.5.1, <67.0.0", "wheel"]  # PEP 518 specifications.
 
 [tool.black]
 exclude = "/templates/|^features/steps/test_starter"

tools/circleci/requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pip>=21.2
-setuptools>=65.5.1
+setuptools>=65.5.1, <67.0.0
 twine~=3.0