diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dd4be6c22d5..dc26b4d8ddf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ filterwarnings = [
     # produced by older pyparsing<=2.2.0.
     "default:Using or importing the ABCs:DeprecationWarning:pyparsing.*",
     "default:the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib:DeprecationWarning:nose.*",
+    # distutils is deprecated in 3.10, scheduled for removal in 3.12
+    "ignore:The distutils package is deprecated:DeprecationWarning",
     # produced by python3.6/site.py itself (3.6.7 on Travis, could not trigger it with 3.6.8)."
     "ignore:.*U.*mode is deprecated:DeprecationWarning:(?!(pytest|_pytest))",
     # produced by pytest-xdist