diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a568761..076a7d00 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -62,7 +62,3 @@ target/
 
 # pyenv
 .python-version
-
-
-# generated by setuptools_scm
-pytest_asyncio/_version.py
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3ba6f317..d3c5b6bf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 requires = [
-  "setuptools>=77",
-  "setuptools-scm[toml]>=6.2",
+  "setuptools==80.9",
+  "setuptools-scm==9.2",
 ]
 
 [project]
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ packages = [
 include-package-data = true
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
-write_to = "pytest_asyncio/_version.py"
 local_scheme = "no-local-version"
 
 [tool.ruff]
@@ -138,9 +137,6 @@ source = [
 ]
 branch = true
 data_file = "coverage/coverage"
-omit = [
-  "*/_version.py",
-]
 parallel = true
 
 [tool.coverage.report]
diff --git a/pytest_asyncio/__init__.py b/pytest_asyncio/__init__.py
index c25c1bf1..abd62e15 100644
--- a/pytest_asyncio/__init__.py
+++ b/pytest_asyncio/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from ._version import version as __version__  # noqa: F401
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
 from .plugin import fixture, is_async_test
 
+__version__ = version(__name__)
+
 __all__ = ("fixture", "is_async_test")
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index f68f54b8..00000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-[metadata]
-# Not everything is in in pyproject.toml because of this issue:
-; Traceback (most recent call last):
-;  File "/tmp/build-env-rud8b5r6/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/config/expand.py", line 69, in __getattr__
-;    return next(
-;           ^^^^^
-;StopIteration
-;
-;The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
-;
-;Traceback (most recent call last):
-;  File "/tmp/build-env-rud8b5r6/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/config/expand.py", line 183, in read_attr
-;    return getattr(StaticModule(module_name, spec), attr_name)
-;           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-;  File "/tmp/build-env-rud8b5r6/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/config/expand.py", line 75, in __getattr__
-;    raise AttributeError(f"{self.name} has no attribute {attr}") from e
-;AttributeError: pytest_asyncio has no attribute __version__
-version = attr: pytest_asyncio.__version__
diff --git a/tests/test_package.py b/tests/test_package.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f4f720d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import pytest_asyncio
+
+
+def test_package_exposes_version():
+    assert pytest_asyncio.__version__