try new distlib version
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml
index 5f3c3b8..ee10942 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
       name: Set up QEMU
     - name: Install cibuildwheel
       # note: sync cibuildwheel version with gradle task sdks:python:bdistPy* steps
-      run: pip install cibuildwheel==2.18.0 setuptools
+      run: pip install cibuildwheel==2.22.0 setuptools
     - name: Build wheel
       # Only build wheel if it is one of the target versions for this platform, otherwise no-op
       if: ${{ contains(matrix.os_python.python, matrix.py_version) }}
diff --git a/sdks/python/build.gradle b/sdks/python/build.gradle
index 6b3d21f..260ffc2 100644
--- a/sdks/python/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/python/build.gradle
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
              args '-c', ". ${envdir}/bin/activate && " +
                  // note: sync cibuildwheel version with GitHub Action
                  // .github/workflows/build_wheel.yml:build_wheels "Install cibuildwheel" step
-                 "pip install cibuildwheel==2.18.0 setuptools && " +
+                 "pip install cibuildwheel==2.22.0 setuptools && " +
                  "cibuildwheel --print-build-identifiers --platform ${platform} --archs ${archs} && " +
                  "cibuildwheel --output-dir ${buildDir} --platform ${platform} --archs ${archs} "
            }
diff --git a/sdks/python/pyproject.toml b/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
index 8000c24..ccdd31a 100644
--- a/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/sdks/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "grpcio-tools==1.62.1",
     "mypy-protobuf==3.5.0",
     # Avoid https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2006
-    "distlib==0.3.7",
+    "distlib==0.3.9",
     # Numpy headers
     "numpy>=1.14.3,<2.3.0", # Update setup.py as well.
     # having cython here will create wheels that are platform dependent.