diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 9f8b38b043..029433c26a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ test_requires =
     pytest >= 4.4.0, < 6.0.0
     pytest-cov
     pytest-env
-    pytest-xdist
+    pytest-xdist < 2.0
     pytest-rerunfailures
     codecov
     numpy
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ test =
     pytest >= 4.4.0, < 6.0.0
     pytest-cov
     pytest-env
-    pytest-xdist
+    pytest-xdist < 2.0
     pytest-rerunfailures
     codecov
     numpy