diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bbcb7706..7b57361c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -121,11 +121,8 @@ docs/autoapi
 .fuse_hidden*
 
 \.pytest_cache/
-
-*.ipynb_checkpoints/
-
 \.vscode/
-
+*.ipynb_checkpoints/
 
 # quimb specific
 ctg_cache
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index b4d5aad0..00000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-include quimb/_version.py
-include README.md
-include setup.cfg
-include LICENSE.txt
-graft tests
-graft deps
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 75aa43cb..80ade684 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,15 +57,21 @@ docs = [
     "sphinx>=2.0",
 ]
 
+[project.urls]
+"Documentation" = "https://quimb.readthedocs.io/"
+"Repository" = "https://github.com/jcmgray/quimb/"
+"Issues" = "https://github.com/jcmgray/quimb/issues"
+"Changelog" = "https://github.com/jcmgray/quimb/releases"
+
 [build-system]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-requires = ["setuptools>=64", "setuptools_scm>=8"]
+requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
-[tool.setuptools.packages]
-find = { exclude = ["paper"] }
+[tool.hatch.version]
+source = "vcs"
 
-[tool.setuptools_scm]
-write_to = "quimb/_version.py"
+[tool.hatch.build.hooks.vcs]
+version-file = "quimb/_version.py"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 testpaths = "tests"