diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8d32eb7a454..f80d2fb3ced 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.12"
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: pip install -U pip build wheel setuptools
+        run: pip install -U pip hatch
       - name: Build distributions
-        run: python -m build
+        run: hatch build
       - name: Upload package as artifact to GitHub
         if: github.repository == 'projectmesa/mesa' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags')
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7e84213dc84..25477e7a0d8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = [
-    "setuptools",
-    "wheel",
-]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["hatchling"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "Mesa"
@@ -73,12 +70,11 @@ repository = "https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa"
 [project.scripts]
 mesa = "mesa.main:cli"
 
-[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
-include = ["mesa*"]
-exclude = ["tests*"]
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+packages = ["mesa"]
 
-[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
-version = {attr = "mesa.__version__"}
+[tool.hatch.version]
+path = "mesa/__init__.py"
 
 [tool.ruff]
 # See https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff#rules for error code definitions.