# Numba requires very outdated version of setuptools **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Support\ **Created:** [October 1, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://numba.discourse.group/t/numba-requires-very-outdated-version-of-setuptools/1588 "2022-10-01T17:00:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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@huskyy thank you for asking about this. Please try to use the new Numba 0.56.3 which was just released: > [@\[ANN\] Numba 0.56.3](https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-56-3/1600): > > Dear all, on behalf of the Numba development community, I am happy to announce the release of Numba 0.56.3. This is a bugfix release to remove the version restriction applied to the setuptools package and to fix a bug in the CUDA target in relation to copying zero length device arrays to zero length host arrays. The changelog can be found at: [Numba 0.56.3](https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.56.3/release-notes.html) The released packages may be installed with conda using: conda install -c numba numba Or using pip: pip install numba Please do… --- _[View the full topic](https://numba.discourse.group/t/numba-requires-very-outdated-version-of-setuptools/1588)._