diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index e5d5ba16..e298f9bd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -34,14 +34,15 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: "3.9"
 
-      - name: Install dependencies
+      - name: install build requirements
         run: |
-          pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+          pip install build
           pip freeze
 
-      - name: Build distribution archives
+      - name: build release
         run: |
-          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+          python -m build --sdist --wheel .
+          ls -l dist
 
       # This step is only run when a new tag is pushed
       # all previous steps always run in order to exercise them
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 4dfca1ce..40ddffb8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install repo2docker
         run: |
-          python setup.py bdist_wheel
+          python -m build --wheel .
           pip install dist/*.whl
 
           # add for mercurial tests
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 57592762..245b425e 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+build
 codecov
 conda-lock
 pre-commit
@@ -5,4 +6,3 @@ pytest-cov
 pytest>=4.6
 pyyaml
 requests_mock
-wheel