diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
index b1c1a0828aa..9642227a2bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       ASV_DIR: "./asv_bench"
-      CONDA_ENV_FILE: ci/requirements/environment-benchmark.yml
+      CONDA_ENV_FILE: ci/requirements/environment.yml
 
     steps:
       # We need the full repo to avoid this issue
diff --git a/asv_bench/asv.conf.json b/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
index b377542e402..0f2768589c7 100644
--- a/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
+++ b/asv_bench/asv.conf.json
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
   // The Pythons you'd like to test against.  If not provided, defaults
   // to the current version of Python used to run `asv`.
-  "pythons": ["3.11"],
+  "pythons": ["3.13"],
 
   // The matrix of dependencies to test.  Each key is the name of a
   // package (in PyPI) and the values are version numbers.  An empty
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@
   //     "pip+emcee": [""],   // emcee is only available for install with pip.
   // },
   "matrix": {
-    "setuptools_scm": [""], // GH6609
-    "numpy": ["2.2"],
+    "setuptools": [""],
+    "numpy": [""],
     "pandas": [""],
     "netcdf4": [""],
     "scipy": [""],
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@
     "distributed": [""],
     "flox": [""],
     "numpy_groupies": [""],
-    "sparse": [""],
+    "sparse": ["0.15"],
     "cftime": [""]
   },
   // fix for bad builds
   // https://github.com/airspeed-velocity/asv/issues/1389#issuecomment-2076131185
   "build_command": [
     "python -m build",
-    "python -mpip wheel --no-deps --no-build-isolation --no-index -w {build_cache_dir} {build_dir}"
+    "python -m pip wheel --no-deps --no-build-isolation --no-index -w {build_cache_dir} {build_dir}"
   ],
   // Combinations of libraries/python versions can be excluded/included
   // from the set to test. Each entry is a dictionary containing additional
diff --git a/ci/requirements/environment.yml b/ci/requirements/environment.yml
index cc33d8b4681..2e4d1ba052d 100644
--- a/ci/requirements/environment.yml
+++ b/ci/requirements/environment.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dependencies:
   - rasterio
   - scipy
   - seaborn
-  - sparse
+  - sparse>=0.15
   - toolz
   - types-colorama
   - types-docutils
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bc899596b4c..2356de0b06c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 description = "N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python"
 dynamic = ["version"]
-license = "Apache-2.0"
+# license = "Apache-2.0"
+license = { file = "LICENSE.txt" }
 name = "xarray"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 
-dependencies = ["numpy>=1.26", "packaging>=24.1", "pandas>=2.2"]
+dependencies = ["numpy>=1.26", "packaging>=24.2", "pandas>=2.2"]
 
 # We don't encode minimum requirements here (though if we can write a script to
 # generate the text from `min_deps_check.py`, that's welcome...). We do add