diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c9de9e03dc..4b3a7e97aa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 "Source" = "https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal"
 
 [build-system] # How pip and other frontends should build this project
-requires = ["scikit-build-core>=0.8", "setuptools_scm>=7"]
+# Version 8 of setuptools_scm drops Python 3.7
+requires = ["scikit-build-core>=0.8", "setuptools_scm~=7.1"]
 build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]