diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index b7e69a3..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-include LICENSE
-include README.rst
-include CHANGELOG.rst
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 4cc2cc6..34c4c93 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Or if you want to install directly from the repository:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ python setup.py install
+    $ pip install .
 
 Usage
 =====
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f619fc4..ffcd4c1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-requires = [ "setuptools" ]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+requires = [ "hatchling" ]
 
 [project]
 name = "pysolr"
@@ -35,9 +35,8 @@ dev = [
   "pre-commit>=4.4",
 ]
 
-[tool.setuptools]
-py-modules = [ "pysolr" ]
-include-package-data = false
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.sdist]
+exclude = [ ".github" ]
 
 [tool.ruff]
 lint.select = [