diff --git a/_maturin_wrapper.py b/_maturin_wrapper.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9b3b08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_maturin_wrapper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+"""
+Build backend wrapper for maturin that suppresses RUST_LOG to prevent
+INFO-level span close events from being printed to stdout after the wheel path,
+which would cause maturin's Python wrapper to misidentify the log line as the path.
+"""
+import os
+
+os.environ.setdefault("RUST_LOG", "warn")
+if os.environ.get("RUST_LOG", "warn").lower() == "info":
+    os.environ["RUST_LOG"] = "warn"
+
+from maturin import (
+    build_editable,
+    build_sdist,
+    build_wheel,
+    get_requires_for_build_editable,
+    get_requires_for_build_sdist,
+    get_requires_for_build_wheel,
+    prepare_metadata_for_build_editable,
+    prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel,
+)
+
+__all__ = [
+    "build_editable",
+    "build_sdist",
+    "build_wheel",
+    "get_requires_for_build_editable",
+    "get_requires_for_build_sdist",
+    "get_requires_for_build_wheel",
+    "prepare_metadata_for_build_editable",
+    "prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel",
+]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d47a03..8f65057 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ license = {text = "MIT"}
 name = "markdown-query"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-version = "0.5.25"
+version = "0.5.26"
 
 [tool.maturin]
 module-name = "mq.mq"
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ python-packages = ["mq"]
 python-source = "src"
 
 [build-system]
-build-backend = "maturin"
+build-backend = "_maturin_wrapper"
+backend-path = ["."]
 requires = ["maturin>=1.0,<2.0"]
 
 [dependency-groups]