diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 833662f..39a9020 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=62", # Used to build and package the Python project
+    "setuptools>=82.0.1", # Used to build and package the Python project
     "setuptools_scm>=6.2", # Gets release version from git. Makes it available programmatically
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"