diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 71de7f9b..63c7210b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ requires = [
   "numpy>=2.0.0;  python_version>='3.9'",
   "pip",
   "scikit-build>=0.14.0",
-  "setuptools==59.2.0",
+  "setuptools>=59.2.0",
 ]