diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9beb431..bd3cd7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["wheel", "setuptools>=42", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4"]
+requires = ["wheel", "setuptools == 68.2.2", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]