diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a135f40c..e771e16b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Version 2.9.0.post0 (2024-03-01)
+================================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Pinned ``setuptools_scm`` to ``<8``, which should make the generated ``_version.py`` file compatible with all supported versions of Python.
+
+
 Version 2.9.0 (2024-02-29)
 ==========================
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67ad619f..b6097176 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools; python_version != '3.3'",
     "setuptools<40.0; python_version == '3.3'",
     "wheel",
-    "setuptools_scm"
+    "setuptools_scm<8.0"
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"