diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9f967f5a..69f76e75 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
   "setuptools == 68.1.0",
-  "setuptools_scm[toml] == 7.1.0",
+  "setuptools_scm[toml] == 8.1.0",
   "frequenz-repo-config[api] == 0.10.0",
   # We need to pin the protobuf, grpcio and  grpcio-tools dependencies to make
   # sure the code is generated using the minimum supported versions, as older