diff --git a/changes/538.misc.rst b/changes/538.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08cd276c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/538.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The pinned dependencies in pyproject.toml and tox.ini were updated to their latest versions.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bcc2c862..80fd3478 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools==75.2.0",
+    "setuptools==75.3.0",
     "setuptools_scm==8.1.0",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"