diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index db7d4521..dd987e00 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "PyQt5",
     "pyqtgraph",
     "reproject",
-    "setuptools<81", # workaround for sf_tools/python-pysap importing pkg_resources
     "sf_tools",
     "skaha",
     "sqlitedict",