diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing.yml b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
index 2958c4b..9ccfef3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ !((matrix.python-version == '2.7') || (matrix.python-version == '3.5')) }}
         run: |
           conda install -c anaconda -c conda-forge --file requirements-linting-old.txt coverage-lcov mypy types-six typed-ast
+      - name: install build dependencies
+        if: ${{ !((matrix.python-version == '2.7') || (matrix.python-version == '3.5')) }}
+        run: pip install --upgrade pip setuptools build
       - name: Preinstall dependencies (Python 2.7) from anaconda
         if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '2.7' }}
         run: |
@@ -54,9 +57,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check typing with mypy
         if: ${{ !((matrix.python-version == '2.7') || (matrix.python-version == '3.5')) }}
         run: mypy imagehash tests/*.py --follow-imports=silent --ignore-missing-imports || true
-      - name: Test install from setup.py
-        run: pip install .
-      - run: coverage run -m pytest .
+      - name: build wheel
+        if: ${{ !((matrix.python-version == '2.7') || (matrix.python-version == '3.5')) }}
+        run: python3 -m build -nwx .
+      - name: Install the built wheel
+        if: ${{ !((matrix.python-version == '2.7') || (matrix.python-version == '3.5')) }}
+        run: pip install --upgrade ./dist/*.whl
+      - run: coverage run -m pytest ./tests
       - name: Convert coverage output to lcov for coveralls
         # coverage-lcov requires python 3.6, so we cannot upload results
         # from python 2 and 3.5 builds :-(
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d977e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.2"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "ImageHash"
+version = "4.3.0"
+authors = [{name = "Johannes Buchner", email = "buchner.johannes@gmx.at"}]
+license = {text = "BSD-2-Clause"}
+description = "Image Hashing library"
+readme = "README.rst"
+dependencies = ["numpy", "scipy", "pillow", "PyWavelets"]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+testing = ["pytest>=3"]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["imagehash"]
+script-files = ["find_similar_images.py"]
+include-package-data = true
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+imagehash = ["py.typed"]
+
+[tool.distutils.bdist_wheel]
+universal = 1
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4123426..45f70e8 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[bdist_wheel]
-universal = 1
-
 [flake8]
 count = True
 statistics = True
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f354304..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-try:
-	from setuptools import setup
-except BaseException:
-	from distutils.core import setup
-
-long_description = ''
-with open('README.rst') as f:
-	long_description = f.read()
-
-setup(
-	name='ImageHash',
-	version='4.3.0',
-	author='Johannes Buchner',
-	author_email='buchner.johannes@gmx.at',
-	packages=['imagehash'],
-	package_data={'imagehash': ['py.typed']},
-	data_files=[('images', ['tests/data/imagehash.png'])],
-	scripts=['find_similar_images.py'],
-	url='https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash',
-	license='2-clause BSD License',
-	description='Image Hashing library',
-	long_description=long_description,
-	long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
-	install_requires=[
-		'numpy',
-		'scipy',		# for phash
-		'pillow',		# or PIL
-		'PyWavelets',  # for whash
-	],
-	test_suite='tests',
-	tests_require=['pytest>=3'],
-)