diff --git a/docs/misc/changelog.rst b/docs/misc/changelog.rst
index 5f98147..738b676 100644
--- a/docs/misc/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/misc/changelog.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Bug Fixes:
 - Removed ``forward()`` abstract method declaration from ``common.policies.BaseModel`` (already defined in ``torch.nn.Module``) to fix type errors in subclasses (@Rocamonde)
 - Fixed the return type of ``.load()`` and ``.learn()`` methods in ``BaseAlgorithm`` so that they now use ``TypeVar`` (@Rocamonde)
 - Fixed an issue where keys with different tags but the same key raised an error in ``common.logger.HumanOutputFormat`` (@Rocamonde and @AdamGleave)
+- Set importlib-metadata version to `~=4.13`
 
 Deprecations:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8c410a3..fd1ee47 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ setup(
             "pytype",
             # Lint code
             "flake8>=3.8",
+            # flake8 not compatible with importlib-metadata>5.0
+            "importlib-metadata~=4.13",
             # Find likely bugs
             "flake8-bugbear",
             # Sort imports