diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 3bd6226922..e09975e444 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -43,3 +43,30 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run Tests
       run: |
         hatch env run --env test.py${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.numpy-version }}-${{ matrix.dependency-set }} run
+
+  upstream:
+    name: py=${{ matrix.python-version }}-upstream
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ['3.13']
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        cache: 'pip'
+    - name: Install Hatch
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip 
+        pip install hatch
+    - name: Set Up Hatch Env
+      run: |
+        hatch env create upstream
+        hatch env run -e upstream list-env
+    - name: Run Tests
+      run: |
+        hatch env run --env upstream run
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 84ec8b9a5d..e3d8a310b1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -183,6 +183,35 @@ features = ['docs']
 build = "cd docs && make html"
 serve = "sphinx-autobuild docs docs/_build --host 0.0.0.0"
 
+[tool.hatch.envs.upstream]
+dependencies = [
+    'numpy',  # from scientific-python-nightly-wheels
+    'numcodecs @ git+https://github.com/zarr-developers/numcodecs',
+    'fsspec @ git+https://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec',
+    's3fs @ git+https://github.com/fsspec/s3fs',
+    'universal_pathlib @ git+https://github.com/fsspec/universal_pathlib',
+    'crc32c @ git+https://github.com/ICRAR/crc32c',
+    'typing_extensions @ git+https://github.com/python/typing_extensions',
+    'donfig @ git+https://github.com/pytroll/donfig',
+    # test deps
+    'hypothesis',
+    'pytest',
+    'pytest-cov',
+    'pytest-asyncio',
+    'moto[s3]',
+]
+
+[tool.hatch.envs.upstream.env-vars]
+PIP_INDEX_URL = "https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple/"
+PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL = "https://pypi.org/simple/"
+PIP_PRE = "1"
+
+[tool.hatch.envs.upstream.scripts]
+run = "pytest --verbose"
+run-mypy = "mypy src"
+run-hypothesis = "pytest --hypothesis-profile ci tests/test_properties.py tests/test_store/test_stateful*"
+list-env = "pip list"
+
 [tool.ruff]
 line-length = 100
 force-exclude = true
diff --git a/src/zarr/codecs/zstd.py b/src/zarr/codecs/zstd.py
index 949f762b20..b4a4a13c29 100644
--- a/src/zarr/codecs/zstd.py
+++ b/src/zarr/codecs/zstd.py
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 import asyncio
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from functools import cached_property
-from importlib.metadata import version
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+import numcodecs
 from numcodecs.zstd import Zstd
+from packaging.version import Version
 
 from zarr.abc.codec import BytesBytesCodec
 from zarr.core.buffer.cpu import as_numpy_array_wrapper
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ class ZstdCodec(BytesBytesCodec):
 
     def __init__(self, *, level: int = 0, checksum: bool = False) -> None:
         # numcodecs 0.13.0 introduces the checksum attribute for the zstd codec
-        _numcodecs_version = tuple(map(int, version("numcodecs").split(".")))
-        if _numcodecs_version < (0, 13, 0):  # pragma: no cover
+        _numcodecs_version = Version(numcodecs.__version__)
+        if _numcodecs_version < Version("0.13.0"):
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "numcodecs version >= 0.13.0 is required to use the zstd codec. "
                 f"Version {_numcodecs_version} is currently installed."