diff --git a/sdks/python/container/base_image_requirements_manual.txt b/sdks/python/container/base_image_requirements_manual.txt
index 2a6a11415ee9..7efb2588ef79 100644
--- a/sdks/python/container/base_image_requirements_manual.txt
+++ b/sdks/python/container/base_image_requirements_manual.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ nltk  # Commonly used for natural language processing.
 google-crc32c
 scipy
 scikit-learn
-build>=1.0,<2 # tool to build sdist from setup.py in stager.
+build>=1.5.0,<2 # tool to build sdist from setup.py in stager.
 # Dill 0.3.1.1 is included as a base manual requirement so is avaiable to users
 # with pickle_library=dill, but apache-beam does not have a hard dependency.
 dill>=0.3.1.1,<0.3.2