diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 87880e9a1..63ff2ad93 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2",
-    "scikit-build-core[pyproject]==0.5.1",
+    "scikit-build-core[pyproject]",
     "Cython>=0.29.28",
     # see https://github.com/scipy/oldest-supported-numpy/
     # should fix #310