diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9dfe32d75870d07ebed66c50130d145534913f00..3584424a8f102e84f2a4fd7359caa134194ab21c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=43", "wheel"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta" 
 
 [project]