diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e8945b67..e0ff0d54 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,14 +22,16 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 urls = {homepage = "https://contentauthenticity.org", repository = "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/contentauth/c2pa-python"}
 dependencies = [
-    "wheel>=0.41.2",
-    "setuptools>=68.0.0",
     "toml>=0.10.2",
-    "pytest>=7.4.0",
     "cryptography>=41.0.0",
     "requests>=2.0.0"
 ]
 
+[dependency-groups]
+dev = [
+    "pytest>=8.1.0"
+]
+
 [project.scripts]
 download-artifacts = "c2pa.build:download_artifacts"