diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 3e65e40..022d177 100755
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ setup_requires =
     # Note: It fails with tags named as `Release_2.2.0-RC0`, because it is
     # not conforming to semantic versioning, but it succeed with tags as
     # `2.2.0-rc0`.
-    setuptools_scm
+    setuptools_scm >= 4.1.2
 [options.extras_require]
 # To install these dependencies, run pip install .[test]
 test =