diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 58deacd..ed62ad4 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Oder/Manual release instructions:
 * Commit and open PR on Github to see that all tests pass,
   and then merge the PR.
 * Check out master locally
-* Build wheel
-    python setup.py sdist upload
+* Build sdist and wheel
+    python -m build
 * Check long description
     twine check dist/*
 * Upload to pypi-test
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c11b95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+[build-system]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["setuptools>=77"]
+
+[project]
+authors = [{name = "Michael Weiss and other contributors", email = "code@mweiss.ch"}]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+]
+dependencies = ["pylatexenc~=2.10"]
+description = "Bibtex parser for python 3"
+dynamic = ["version"]
+license = "MIT"
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+maintainers = [{name = "Michael Weiss", email = "code@mweiss.ch"}]
+name = "bibtexparser"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+docs = ["sphinx"]
+test = [
+    "pytest",  # Test runner
+    "pytest-xdist",  # Parallel tests: `pytest -n <num-workers>`
+    "pytest-cov",  # Code coverage
+    "jupyter",  # For runnable examples
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/sciunto-org/python-bibtexparser"
+Repository = "https://github.com/sciunto-org/python-bibtexparser"
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "bibtexparser.__version__"}
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+bibtexparser = ["py.typed"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["bibtexparser", "bibtexparser.*"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d0480ea..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import setuptools
-
-version = None
-
-with open("bibtexparser/__init__.py") as fh:
-    for line in fh:
-        if line.startswith("__version__"):
-            version = line.strip().split()[-1][1:-1]
-            break
-    if not version:
-        raise RuntimeError("Could not determine version")
-
-
-def load_readme():
-    with open("README.md") as f:
-        return f.read()
-
-
-setuptools.setup(
-    name="bibtexparser",
-    version=version,
-    url="https://github.com/sciunto-org/python-bibtexparser",
-    author="Michael Weiss and other contributors",
-    maintainer="Michael Weiss",
-    license="MIT",
-    author_email="code@mweiss.ch",
-    maintainer_email="code@mweiss.ch",
-    description="Bibtex parser for python 3",
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    long_description=load_readme(),
-    python_requires=">=3.9",
-    packages=setuptools.find_packages(include=["bibtexparser", "bibtexparser.*"]),
-    package_data={"bibtexparser": ["py.typed"]},
-    classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
-        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
-        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-    ],
-    install_requires=[
-        "pylatexenc~=2.10",
-    ],
-    extras_require={
-        "test": [
-            "pytest",  # Test runner
-            "pytest-xdist",  # Parallel tests: `pytest -n <num-workers>`
-            "pytest-cov",  # Code coverage
-            "jupyter",  # For runnable examples
-        ],
-        "docs": [
-            "sphinx",
-        ],
-    },
-)