diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3dc5baa50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+packages = ["basicsr"]
+
+[project]
+name = "basicsr"
+version = "1.4.2"
+authors = [
+  { name="Xintao Wang", email="xintao.wang@outlook.com" },
+]
+description = "Open Source Image and Video Super-Resolution Toolbox"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
+classifiers = [
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+]
+license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
+
+dependencies = [
+  "addict", "future", "lmdb", "numpy", "opencv-python", "Pillow",
+  "pyyaml", "requests", "scikit-image", "scipy", "tb-nightly",
+  "torch", "torchvision", "tqdm", "yapf", "cython"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "github.com/Disty0/BasicSR"
+Issues = "https://github.com/XPixelGroup/BasicSR/issues"
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bc228e473..aa30a2508 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ def write_version_py():
 
 def get_version():
     with open(version_file, 'r') as f:
-        exec(compile(f.read(), version_file, 'exec'))
-    return locals()['__version__']
+        return f.read().split("'")[1]
 
 
 def make_cuda_ext(name, module, sources, sources_cuda=None):