diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a2f7709a59..2a7c6588c0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ sudo: false
 python:
     - "3.4"
 install:
-    - pip install -U pip wheel setuptools
+    - pip install -U pip wheel setuptools==28.6.1
 script:
     - bash .travis.sh $JOB
 cache:
diff --git a/doc/development/setup.rst b/doc/development/setup.rst
index 0592cd400d..0ac0395c71 100644
--- a/doc/development/setup.rst
+++ b/doc/development/setup.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ automatically). If you are working on Ubuntu or Debian, we strongly recommend up
 your pip and setuptools installation inside the virtual environment, otherwise some of
 the dependencies might fail::
 
-    pip install -U pip setuptools
+    pip install -U pip setuptools==28.6.1
 
 Working with the code
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