diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ef490fa..a359d8f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Master
 
 - Output the installed version of pip and setuptools in the build log (#1007).
+- Install setuptools from PyPI rather than a vendored copy (#1007).
 - Reduce the number of environment variables exposed to `bin/{pre,post}_compile` and other subprocesses (#1011)
 
 # 173 (2020-07-21)
diff --git a/bin/steps/python b/bin/steps/python
index cab5f79..381cc21 100755
--- a/bin/steps/python
+++ b/bin/steps/python
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ if [ "$FRESH_PYTHON" ] || [[ ! $(pip --version) == *${PIP_VERSION}* ]]; then
   rm -fr /app/.heroku/python/lib/python*/site-packages/setuptools-*
 
   /app/.heroku/python/bin/python "$GETPIP_PY" pip=="${PIP_VERSION}" &> /dev/null
-  /app/.heroku/python/bin/pip install "$ROOT_DIR/vendor/setuptools-${SETUPTOOLS_VERSION}-py2.py3-none-any.whl" &> /dev/null
+  /app/.heroku/python/bin/pip install "setuptools==${SETUPTOOLS_VERSION}" &> /dev/null
 fi
 
 set -e
diff --git a/vendor/setuptools-39.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl b/vendor/setuptools-39.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
deleted file mode 100644
index edc3ca2..0000000
Binary files a/vendor/setuptools-39.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl and /dev/null differ