diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-push.yml b/.github/workflows/build-push.yml
index b5a845a20..158b13d2e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-push.yml
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ jobs:
         if: runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.platform == 'x86_64'
         run: |
           echo "CIBW_BUILD=cp312*_x86_64" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD='python -m pip install 'cython' Cython>=3.0.11,<4'" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
       - name: Overwrite for Linux PyPy
         if: runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.platform == 'PyPy'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..79ce6646c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2", "numpy", "wheel"]
+
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+    setup(
+        name='scylla-driver',
+        version=__version__,
+        description='Scylla Driver for Apache Cassandra',
+        long_description=long_description,
+        long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
+        url='https://github.com/scylladb/python-driver',
+#        packages=[
+#            'cassandra', 'cassandra.io', 'cassandra.cqlengine', 'cassandra.graph',
+#            'cassandra.datastax', 'cassandra.datastax.insights', 'cassandra.datastax.graph',
+#            'cassandra.datastax.graph.fluent', 'cassandra.datastax.cloud', 'cassandra.scylla',
+#            'cassandra.column_encryption'
+#        ],
+        include_package_data=True,
+        install_requires=dependencies,
+        extras_require=_EXTRAS_REQUIRE,
+        tests_require=['nose', 'mock>=2.0.0', 'PyYAML', 'pytz', 'sure'],
+        classifiers=,
+        **kw)
+
+
+[project]
+name = "scylla-driver"
+authors = [
+    {name="ScyllaDB"},
+]
+description = "Scylla Driver for Apache Cassandra"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+keywords = ["cassandra","cql","orm","dse","graph"]
+classifiers=[
+    'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+    'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+    'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
+    'Natural Language :: English',
+    'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+    'Programming Language :: Python',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
+    'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
+    'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "numpy",
+    "scipy",
+    "matplotlib",
+    "scikit-image",
+]
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[project.urls]
+"Documentation" = 'https://scylladb.github.io/python-driver/",
+"Source" = "https://github.com/scylladb/python-driver/",
+"Issues" = "https://github.com/scylladb/python-driver/issues",
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+include-package-data = true
+zip-safe = false
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["src"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+pysolid = ["*.for"]