diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bd102a7..54a26d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 # Setuptools version should match setup.py; wheel because pip will insert it noisily
-requires = ["setuptools >= 42.0.0", "versioningit ~= 0.3.0", "wheel"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 42.0.0", "versioningit", "wheel"]
 build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'
 
 [tool.versioningit]
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ exclude = ["schema-*"]
 
 [tool.versioningit.format]
 # Same format as versioneer
-distance = "{version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}"
-dirty = "{version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty"
-distance-dirty = "{version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty"
+distance = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}"
+dirty = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty"
+distance-dirty = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty"
 
 [tool.versioningit.write]
 file = "dandischema/_version.py"