diff --git a/labscript/__version__.py b/labscript/__version__.py
index 699955f..fa43cee 100644
--- a/labscript/__version__.py
+++ b/labscript/__version__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     import importlib_metadata
 
 VERSION_SCHEME = {
-    "version_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_VERSION_SCHEME", "guess-next-dev"),
+    "version_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_VERSION_SCHEME", "release-branch-semver"),
     "local_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_LOCAL_SCHEME", "node-and-date"),
 }
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e6ca9c7..3a61336 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "setuptools_scm"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 12b22ca..1ff17d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 VERSION_SCHEME = {
-    "version_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_VERSION_SCHEME", "guess-next-dev"),
+    "version_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_VERSION_SCHEME", "release-branch-semver"),
     "local_scheme": os.getenv("SCM_LOCAL_SCHEME", "node-and-date"),
 }