diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5f209f3..6c44eef 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
   "setuptools>=77.0",
-  "setuptools-scm[toml]>=6.2.3",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "pytest-xdist"
+version = "3.7.1.dev24+g2b4372bd6"
 description = "pytest xdist plugin for distributed testing, most importantly across multiple CPUs"
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = "MIT"
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "execnet>=2.1",
     "pytest>=7.0.0",
 ]
-dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist"
@@ -53,9 +52,6 @@ testing = ["filelock"]
 psutil = ["psutil>=3.0"]
 setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
 
-[tool.setuptools_scm]
-write_to = "src/xdist/_version.py"
-
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 # pytest-services also defines a worker_id fixture, disable
 # it so they don't conflict with each other (#611).
diff --git a/src/xdist/__init__.py b/src/xdist/__init__.py
index c78b25c..411d793 100644
--- a/src/xdist/__init__.py
+++ b/src/xdist/__init__.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-from xdist._version import version as __version__
 from xdist.plugin import get_xdist_worker_id
 from xdist.plugin import is_xdist_controller
 from xdist.plugin import is_xdist_master
 from xdist.plugin import is_xdist_worker
 
 
+__version__ = "3.7.1.dev24+g2b4372bd6"
+
+
 __all__ = [
     "__version__",
     "get_xdist_worker_id",