diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cc05b4120c..3ed6985019 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
     ],
     'devel-utils': [
         'asv',        # benchmarks
-        'coverage',
+        'coverage==7.6.1',
         'gprof2dot',  # rendering cProfile output as a graph image
         'psutil',
         'pytest-xdist',  # parallelize pytest runs etc