diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 0ba6178..9d8968a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -157,12 +157,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           pip install -U pip
           pip install -U --pre cffi
-          pip install -U "setuptools<69" wheel twine
+          pip install -U "setuptools<74" wheel twine
       - name: Install Build Dependencies
         if: matrix.python-version != '3.13'
         run: |
           pip install -U pip
-          pip install -U "setuptools<69" wheel twine
+          pip install -U "setuptools<74" wheel twine
           pip install cffi
 
       - name: Build zope.index (macOS x86_64)
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ jobs:
         if: matrix.python-version == '3.13'
         run: |
           pip install -U --pre cffi
-          pip install -U wheel "setuptools<69"
+          pip install -U wheel "setuptools<74"
           # coverage might have a wheel on PyPI for a future python version which is
           # not ABI compatible with the current one, so build it from sdist:
           pip install -U --no-binary :all: coverage
@@ -340,18 +340,18 @@ jobs:
           unzip -n dist/zope.index-*whl -d src
           # Use "--pre" here because dependencies with support for this future
           # Python release may only be available as pre-releases
-          pip install --pre -U -e .[test]
+          pip install --pre -e .[test]
       - name: Install zope.index
         if: matrix.python-version != '3.13'
         run: |
-          pip install -U wheel "setuptools<69"
+          pip install -U wheel "setuptools<74"
           pip install -U coverage
           pip install -U 'cffi; platform_python_implementation == "CPython"'
           # Unzip into src/ so that testrunner can find the .so files
           # when we ask it to load tests from that directory. This
           # might also save some build time?
           unzip -n dist/zope.index-*whl -d src
-          pip install -U -e .[test]
+          pip install -e .[test]
       - name: Run tests with C extensions
         if: ${{ !startsWith(matrix.python-version, 'pypy') }}
         run: |
diff --git a/.meta.toml b/.meta.toml
index 5cd35bc..3321989 100644
--- a/.meta.toml
+++ b/.meta.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # https://github.com/zopefoundation/meta/tree/master/config/c-code
 [meta]
 template = "c-code"
-commit-id = "4eec7859"
+commit-id = "a1e05e74"
 
 [python]
 with-windows = true
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index ea8349b..25099cd 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ envlist =
 [testenv]
 pip_pre = py313: true
 deps =
-    setuptools < 69
+    setuptools < 74
     py37: urllib3 < 2
     Sphinx
 setenv =