diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3f7650155a..27da6e4b1c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def run(self):
     "google-compute-engine==2.8.13",
     "Pygments",  # required by collective.checkdocs,
     "collective.checkdocs",
-    "flake8",
+    "flake8==3.7.9",
     "psutil",
     "flake8-docstrings",
     "pydocstyle<4.0",