diff --git a/medcat-plugins/medcat-gliner/pyproject.toml b/medcat-plugins/medcat-gliner/pyproject.toml
index ffeea9beb..a379873fd 100644
--- a/medcat-plugins/medcat-gliner/pyproject.toml
+++ b/medcat-plugins/medcat-gliner/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=61.0", "wheel",  "setuptools_scm>=8"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=82.0.1", "wheel",  "setuptools_scm>=10.0.5"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
-    "medcat>=2.5",
+    "medcat>=2.7.0",
     "gliner",
     # transitive dependency of gliner that `uv` pins to and
     # doesn't work in python 3.10