diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 641c808..678f674 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.9"
-      - name: Install wheel
-        run: pip install wheel
+          python-version: "3.12"
+      - name: Install wheel and setuptools
+        run: pip install wheel setuptools
       - name: Build sdist and wheel
         run: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
       - name: Publish to PyPI