diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index af7c74b77..6e3cbd31b 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ repos:
   - id: end-of-file-fixer
   - id: trailing-whitespace
 - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
-  rev: v2.11.0
+  rev: v2.12.0
   hooks:
   - id: pyupgrade
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ repos:
   - id: setup-cfg-fmt
     args: [--min-py3-version, "3.4"]
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-  rev: "3.9.0"
+  rev: "3.9.1"
   hooks:
   - id: flake8
     additional_dependencies: ["flake8-bugbear == 20.1.4"]
diff --git a/docs/changelog/2094.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/2094.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ebfe21d24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/2094.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Upgrade embeded setuptools to ``56.0.0`` by :user:`gaborbernat`.
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/__init__.py b/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/__init__.py
index 8eb1cdde8..0980dd673 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/__init__.py
+++ b/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/__init__.py
@@ -7,27 +7,27 @@
 BUNDLE_SUPPORT = {
     "3.10": {
         "pip": "pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.9": {
         "pip": "pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.8": {
         "pip": "pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.7": {
         "pip": "pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.6": {
         "pip": "pip-21.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
-        "setuptools": "setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl",
+        "setuptools": "setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl",
         "wheel": "wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl",
     },
     "3.5": {
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl b/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
similarity index 94%
rename from src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl
rename to src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
index 111f0c542..264ef10e8 100644
Binary files a/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-54.1.2-py3-none-any.whl and b/src/virtualenv/seed/wheels/embed/setuptools-56.0.0-py3-none-any.whl differ