diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0f524f7e..e9f90b53 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requires = [
   # NOTE: provisioning of the in-tree build backend located under
   # NOTE: `packaging/pep517_backend/`.
   "expandvars",
-  "setuptools >= 47",  # Minimum required for `version = attr:`
+  "setuptools >= 82.0.1",  # Minimum required for `version = attr:`
   "tomli; python_version < '3.11'",
 ]
 backend-path = ["packaging"]  # requires `pip >= 20` or `pep517 >= 0.6.0`