diff --git a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/checksums.ini
index d4c9ee1a391..fd10a17aea2 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/checksums.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-tarball=setuptools_scm-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=b8c9447fe6dfc44107c9cbd2fd82314aad3cb95e
-md5=0df4e7fd923e4983cd65786efaa0e0d0
-cksum=3196930290
-upstream_url=https://pypi.io/packages/source/s/setuptools_scm/setuptools_scm-VERSION.tar.gz
+tarball=setuptools_scm-VERSION-py3-none-any.whl
+sha1=cfde7254fe351b69cd4bf02e1b57e0b3c59aa9a6
+md5=4c054a609965886703ede26a4ba3206d
+cksum=1360813947
+upstream_url=https://pypi.io/packages/py3/s/setuptools_scm/setuptools_scm-VERSION-py3-none-any.whl
diff --git a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/dependencies b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/dependencies
index 7dd3b6e8f6e..e8117f8900b 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/dependencies
+++ b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/dependencies
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- typing_extensions | setuptools pip wheel tomli packaging $(PYTHON)
+packaging setuptools tomli typing_extensions | pip $(PYTHON)
 
 ----------
 All lines of this file are ignored except the first.
diff --git a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/package-version.txt
index 2be8aeb6b14..50c496d20c6 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.0.5
+8.0.4
diff --git a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/spkg-install.in b/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/spkg-install.in
deleted file mode 100644
index deba1bb42bb..00000000000
--- a/build/pkgs/setuptools_scm/spkg-install.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-cd src && sdh_pip_install .
diff --git a/pkgs/sage-conf/setup.py b/pkgs/sage-conf/setup.py
index 8bf1ba938af..afa05966816 100644
--- a/pkgs/sage-conf/setup.py
+++ b/pkgs/sage-conf/setup.py
@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
 from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
+
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
+
 setup()
diff --git a/pkgs/sage-conf_pypi/setup.py b/pkgs/sage-conf_pypi/setup.py
index 16686a848c9..ac2b5fb3192 100644
--- a/pkgs/sage-conf_pypi/setup.py
+++ b/pkgs/sage-conf_pypi/setup.py
@@ -6,12 +6,23 @@
 import fnmatch
 
 from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
 from distutils.command.build_scripts import build_scripts as distutils_build_scripts
 from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as setuptools_build_py
 from setuptools.command.editable_wheel import editable_wheel as setuptools_editable_wheel
 from setuptools.errors import SetupError
 
 
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
+
+
 class build_py(setuptools_build_py):
 
     def run(self):
diff --git a/pkgs/sage-docbuild/setup.py b/pkgs/sage-docbuild/setup.py
index beda28e8216..cd42da33ffe 100644
--- a/pkgs/sage-docbuild/setup.py
+++ b/pkgs/sage-docbuild/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
+
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
 
 setup()
diff --git a/pkgs/sage-setup/setup.py b/pkgs/sage-setup/setup.py
index beda28e8216..cd42da33ffe 100644
--- a/pkgs/sage-setup/setup.py
+++ b/pkgs/sage-setup/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
+
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
 
 setup()
diff --git a/pkgs/sage-sws2rst/setup.py b/pkgs/sage-sws2rst/setup.py
index 8bf1ba938af..afa05966816 100644
--- a/pkgs/sage-sws2rst/setup.py
+++ b/pkgs/sage-sws2rst/setup.py
@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
 from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
+
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
+
 setup()
diff --git a/src/sage/misc/cython.py b/src/sage/misc/cython.py
index 0967a268f6a..5631cc092e3 100644
--- a/src/sage/misc/cython.py
+++ b/src/sage/misc/cython.py
@@ -422,6 +422,14 @@ def cython(filename, verbose=0, compile_message=False,
 
     # This emulates running "setup.py build" with the correct options
     dist = Distribution()
+    # setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+    # If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+    # then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+    # And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+    # LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+    # LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+    # We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+    dist._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
     dist.ext_modules = [ext]
     dist.include_dirs = includes
     buildcmd = dist.get_command_obj("build")
diff --git a/src/setup.py b/src/setup.py
index f0dd4054bb7..0f28b20d6dc 100755
--- a/src/setup.py
+++ b/src/setup.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import sys
 import time
 from setuptools import setup, find_namespace_packages
+from setuptools.dist import Distribution
 from distutils import log
 import multiprocessing.pool
 
@@ -33,6 +34,15 @@
     import multiprocessing
     multiprocessing.set_start_method('fork', force=True)
 
+# setuptools plugins considered harmful:
+# If build isolation is not in use and setuptools_scm is installed,
+# then its file_finders entry point is invoked, which we don't need.
+# And with setuptools_scm 8, we get more trouble:
+# LookupError: pyproject.toml does not contain a tool.setuptools_scm section
+# LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version ...
+# We just remove all handling of "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" entry points.
+Distribution._removed = staticmethod(lambda ep: True)
+
 # ########################################################
 # ## Set source directory
 # ########################################################