diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 32fb8bfc..383148e5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ setup(
         "Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic",
         ],
     setup_requires=[
-        'setuptools-scm == 1.11.1',  # pinned because upstream keeps breaking things
-        'setuptools-scm-git-archive',
+        'setuptools_scm',
         'cffi>=1.5.0',
         'pytest-runner'
     ],