diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 6885ec6e793..9e8d7892fe5 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Aviv Palivoda
 Babak Keyvani
 Bahram Farahmand
 Barney Gale
+Bastian Ebeling
 Ben Brown
 Ben Gartner
 Ben Leith
diff --git "a/changelog/14302.misc.rst\342\200\216" "b/changelog/14302.misc.rst\342\200\216"
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c7b600a20e
--- /dev/null
+++ "b/changelog/14302.misc.rst\342\200\216"
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Running pytest needs pkg_resources which is or has been part of setuptools before version 82.
+The only change done here is the adopted requirement for setupuptools in the pyproject.toml file.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7ae76a3c8dd..49d3d976d7e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=77",
+    "setuptools>=77,<82",
     "setuptools-scm[toml]>=6.2.3",
 ]