diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 6a84d2baf..1e449c80d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -81,12 +81,8 @@ jobs:
           echo "version=$new_tag" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
       - name: create python package
         run: |
-          python -m pip install wheel
-          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-      - name: rename dist files
-        run: |
-          shopt -s nullglob
-          for file in dist/bc-*.gz; do mv "$file" "${file//bc-detect-secrets/bc_detect_secrets}" ; done
+          python -m pip install build
+          python -m build
       - name: Publish a Python distribution to PyPI
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@b7f401de30cb6434a1e19f805ff006643653240e  # v1
       - name: sleep and wait for package to refresh
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 16d1e3334..475241839 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=70"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
 [tool.ruff]
 line-length = 100