diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d6b083c228..7697541a79 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ _deps = [
     "filelock",
     "flax>=0.4.1",
     "hf-doc-builder>=0.3.0",
-    "huggingface-hub>=0.13.2",
+    "huggingface-hub==v0.16.0.rc0",
     "requests-mock==1.10.0",
     "importlib_metadata",
     "isort>=5.5.4",