diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ca2338e5..583480fc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "pyproject_hooks",
   # not actually a runtime dependency, only supplied as there is not "recommended dependency" support
   'colorama; os_name == "nt"',
-  'importlib-metadata >= 0.22; python_version < "3.8"',
+  'importlib-metadata >= 4.6; python_version < "3.10"',
   'tomli >= 1.1.0; python_version < "3.11"',
 ]
 
diff --git a/src/build/_importlib.py b/src/build/_importlib.py
index 3f4b2049..260ddbd2 100644
--- a/src/build/_importlib.py
+++ b/src/build/_importlib.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 10):
     from importlib import metadata
 else:
     import importlib_metadata as metadata