diff --git a/containers/sidecar-requirements.in b/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
index 9626dd5..e3dc202 100644
--- a/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
+++ b/containers/sidecar-requirements.in
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 barman[azure,cloud,google,snappy,zstandard,lz4]==3.13.2
-setuptools==78.1.0
+setuptools==79.0.0
 boto3==1.35.99
diff --git a/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt b/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
index 2e178c7..1378cad 100644
--- a/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
+++ b/containers/sidecar-requirements.txt
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ zstandard==0.23.0 \
     # via barman
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-setuptools==78.1.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:18fd474d4a82a5f83dac888df697af65afa82dec7323d09c3e37d1f14288da54 \
-    --hash=sha256:3e386e96793c8702ae83d17b853fb93d3e09ef82ec62722e61da5cd22376dcd8
+setuptools==79.0.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:9828422e7541213b0aacb6e10bbf9dd8febeaa45a48570e09b6d100e063fc9f9 \
+    --hash=sha256:b9ab3a104bedb292323f53797b00864e10e434a3ab3906813a7169e4745b912a
     # via -r sidecar-requirements.in