diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2b6810a88c..86a7e569b2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 requires = [
     # TODO: unpin the upper bound when scikit-build dynamic metadata API is stable
     # dynamic metadata API is still unstable
-    "scikit-build-core>=0.5,!=0.6.0,<0.12",
+    "scikit-build-core>=0.5,!=0.6.0,<0.13",
     "packaging",
     'tomli >= 1.1.0 ; python_version < "3.11"',
     "dependency_groups",