diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ab2741870..7b7a2fd19 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools",
+    "setuptools>=42.0.0",
     "wheel",
     "Cython>=0.29.21,<3.0",
     "numpy==1.19.4",