diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f50ab2a..4b48be0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "setuptools-scm"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 40.6.3", "wheel", "setuptools-scm >= 3.0.3"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 135152b..ff46819 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # requirements for running the tests via pytest
-pytest>=2.9,<3.7  # <3.7 because of incompatible pluggy requirement
+pytest>=4.0
 pytest-pythonpath>=0.7.1
-pytest-cov>=2.5.1
-pytest-xdist>=1.22.0
-pytest-django>=3.2.0
+pytest-cov>=2.6.0
+pytest-xdist>=1.25.0
+pytest-django>=3.4.4
 datadiff==2.0.0
 
 -r testproj.txt