diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 35554c06..fd413f90 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: 3.8
       - name: Install setuptools and wheel
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel packaging
       - name: Build sdist and wheel
         run: |
           python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel