diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 07d6aa0..25aa7c5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "panda3d-blend2bam >= 0.24.0",
     "tomli >= 2.0.1",
     "rich ~= 13.5.0",
-    'setuptools; python_version >= "3.12"',
+    "setuptools >= 61.0",
 ]
 requires-python = ">= 3.8"