diff --git a/.github/requirements.txt b/.github/requirements.txt
index 85eb68f..3579196 100644
--- a/.github/requirements.txt
+++ b/.github/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 qgis-plugin-ci>=2.1.1,<3.0.0
+build
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 947e3e1..147c551 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build package
         run: |
-          python setup.py sdist
+          python -m build --no-isolation --sdist
 
       - name: Create release on GitHub
         uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1.9.0
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@ jobs:
           consumer_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
           access_token_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY }}
           access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
-          tweet_body: "New version of Py-QGIS-WPS ${{ env.CI_COMMIT_TAG }} ⚙ for #QGIS https://github.com/3liz/py-qgis-wps/releases"
\ No newline at end of file
+          tweet_body: "New version of Py-QGIS-WPS ${{ env.CI_COMMIT_TAG }} ⚙ for #QGIS https://github.com/3liz/py-qgis-wps/releases"
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2cfb2a7..3f6c342 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stages:
   stage: test
   script:
     - source ~/.bashrc
-    - make install install-tests
+    - make install install-dev
     - pip list -l
     - make test FLAVOR=$QGIS_FLAVOR
   tags:
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index fead42d..b3742be 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-include setup.py MANIFEST.in README.md VERSION
-include requirements.txt
+include MANIFEST.in README.md VERSION
 include pyqgiswps/build.manifest
 recursive-include pyqgiswps/schemas *
 recursive-include pyqgiswps/html *
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6344fe5..dc21b88 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ DEPTH=.
 
 include $(DEPTH)/config.mk
 
-BUILDDIR:=build
-DIST:=${BUILDDIR}/dist
+DIST:=dist
 
 MANIFEST=pyqgiswps/build.manifest
 
@@ -31,8 +30,8 @@ deliver:
 	twine upload -r storage $(DIST)/*
 
 dist: dirs manifest
-	rm -rf *.egg-info
-	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=$(DIST)
+	rm -rf *.egg-info 
+	$(PYTHON) -m build --no-isolation --sdist --outdir=$(DIST)
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf $(DIST) *.egg-info
@@ -44,14 +43,12 @@ test: lint
 install:
 	pip install -U --upgrade-strategy=eager -e .
 
-install-tests:
-	pip install -U --upgrade-strategy=eager -r tests/requirements.txt
+install-dev:
+	pip install -U --upgrade-strategy=eager -r requirements.dev
 
 install-doc:
 	pip install -U --upgrade-strategy=eager -r doc/requirements.txt
 
-install-dev: install-tests install-doc
-
 lint:
 	@ruff check --output-format=concise $(PYTHON_PKG) $(TESTDIR)
 
@@ -61,6 +58,8 @@ lint-preview:
 lint-fix:
 	@ruff check --preview --fix $(PYTHON_PKG) $(TESTDIR)
 
+autopep8: lint-fix
+
 typing:
 	mypy --config=$(topsrcdir)/mypy.ini -p pyqgiswps
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 050a7e9..b6aa330 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /opt/local/ \
 
 COPY pyqgiswps py-qgis-wps/pyqgiswps
 COPY pyqgisservercontrib py-qgis-wps/pyqgisservercontrib
-COPY setup.py pyproject.toml VERSION py-qgis-wps/
+COPY pyproject.toml VERSION py-qgis-wps/
 
 # Create virtualenv for installing server
 RUN mkdir -p /opt/local/ \
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b1861dc..af02123 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,11 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "py-qgis-wps"
-description = """
-Py-Qgis-WPS is an implementation of the Web Processing Service
-standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium. qgis-wps is
-written in Python and is a fork of PyWPS 4.0.
-"""
+description = "Py-Qgis-WPS is an implementation of the Web Processing Service standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">= 3.10"
 classifiers=[
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/requirements.dev
similarity index 95%
rename from tests/requirements.txt
rename to requirements.dev
index 02ac13a..7a424f8 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.dev
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ types-psycopg2
 pipdeptree
 lxml
 lxml-stubs
+build
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index fb06ab3..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-tornado >= 6
-jsonschema >= 4.15
-lxml
-python-dateutil
-redis
-psutil
-pyzmq >= 17, < 24
-PyYAML
-OWSLib
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6068493..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-setup()